Archive for 2015

Adam removes door frame to hallway while Sean works on taking out the back wall of the office closet. Jack Hammers and lots of concrete dust prevail as the foundations are carved out of the concrete floor to allow for the load bearing posts that replace the old wall separating the sunken living room and what was the family room.

Adam is seen here removing the closet wall next to the Green Tara Chapel. We spent this weekend moving into the dorm area and relocating the office to the library so that the hallways could be widened to meet ADA requirements. Thanks to the Grogers and Travis we were able to do this. We still managed to have a class on one of the preliminary translations of a discourse given by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha in Taiwan. However, we will need to ...

Jeremy and his crew finished the posts and will deliver them next week. The two large ones will be used to frame the new entrance to the temple and the others will go into storage or elsewhere until we can raise the funds to install them.

The fireplace is gone and the tile floor is being ground away. We had hoped to keep the old floor and just install the new flooring over the existing tiles, but that was not possible. It has been a messy process.

Adam and Sean have removed the cat door and old sliding door on the back porch.

Visitors from New York and Shanghai joined the Holy Vajrayana Sangha to visit the stupa and beautiful prayer wheels at the Land of the Medicine Buddha in Soquel, California. Their Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Memorial Temple is seen above.

One of the artist working on our “Flaming Jewel” Tibetan posts and corbels is seen above putting the finishing touches on the last post. This is one of the four corner posts.

A new disciple, Travis Holstrom, recently did the brief video shown here based on an interview he did while attending a retreat at the Holy Vajrayana Temple. It was for a journalism class he was taking at Fresno State. It is now on U-Tube.

We also just learned that our temple is listed on a tourism website in China as the 19th “Must See” place to visit in the U.S., ahead of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. We just had a ...

Our contractors started the remodeling of the temple today, a most auspicious beginning for the Chinese New Year! We have opened up the two rooms that will become our Buddha Hall and started adding the fire walls that will separate the residential (dorms, community room, and kitchen) part of the building from the temple proper. The county building inspector checked out the earlier conversion work done on the building and instructed our architect to find what we need to do ...

The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center is planning an East Coast Retreat at the Grail Retreat Center, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York on the weekend of April 10-12, 2015. The retreat center is located across from Storm King Mountain, shown above.