Archive for 2005

Chief Rinpoche Venerable Akou Lamo, Dharma Teachers, and nuns,A special Dharma Assembly was held at the Southern California Chapter of the United International World Buddhism Association Headquarters (UIWBAH) in Monterey Park, California to practice the Dharma for those who perished and are suffering as a result of Hurricane Katrina. A similar ceremony was held at Hua Zang Si (temple) in San Francisco. At the assembly in southern California, Dharma Teacher Long Hui, the abbess of Hua Zang Si, announced the ...

Biloxi, Mississippi:The Chau Van Duc Vietnamese Temple in Biloxi, Mississippi, held its grand opening, with 53 visitors from around the country, on August 28, 2005. More than 1,000 families arrived to join the celebration the day before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast community. A day later, the out-of-town visitors including 30 monks, survived Katrina’s fury by punching a hole in the ceiling of the temple’s storage closet and crouching in the crawl space under the roof. Ven. Thich Thien ...

The statue of Dharma Protector Guan Yu was installed at Hua Zang Si on Saturday, July 30, 2005. Chief Rinpoche and head of the temple, Akou Lamo Rinpoche conducted the ceremony and lead the Dharma Assembly outdoors to the pavilion where the Dharma Protector was to reside. The Abbess of the temple, Long Hui Fa Shi, removed the red velvet cloth that covered the statue. Then eight laymen (Ju-shi) carried the large wooden statue using only white silk hardas. ...

As students performed skits and other shows in honor of H.H.Wan Ko Yisinubu’s birthday, the beautiful jacaranda tree over the veranda began raining. Hanging in this tree was a very large thangka of the thousand-armed Kuan Yin Bodhisattva that had been specially requested from the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet to celebrate His Holiness’s birthday. Just like two years earlier, the sweet, fragrant dew descended from a bright blue, cloudless sky and only in the vicinity of this one tree. Sometimes ...