The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is under construction in Chino Hills, California. The main temple and the visitor center are completed. The visitor center includes a lovely gift shop and cafeteria where one can find all sorts of Indian delicacies and treats.

Dharma Master Ruo Hui, the Abbot of Hua Zang Si, a Buddhist Temple in San Francisco,  conducted a formal Bathing the Buddha Dharma Assembly at the Hua Zang Si Fresno Mission on 4836 North Cedar Avenue, Fresno, California, to celebrate the birthday of Shakyamuni Buddha who lived over 2,500 years ago in what is now northern India.

Dharma Master Ruo Hui gave a short talk on the significance of the ceremony and explained the recently installed photos of Elder Holy Monk ...

A pair of Canadian Geese showed off their three newly hatched babies bringing them up to the temple and walking around and swimming on the pond. Before the drought, there was a pair of geese who nested every year on the small island in the pond, but they left when the pond dried up. Maybe they have now returned? Another pair of ducks also have ducklings on the lake and the Red-Wing Blackbirds are everywhere. Yellow Monkey Flowers and other ...

The Xuanfa Dharma Center of Utah sponsored a Kuan Yin Bodhisattva Great Compassion Empowerment ceremony at the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City on May 6. Click for more information on these ceremonies.

At the Xuanfa Dharma Center the following day Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche read the preliminary translation of “Are Supernatural Powers Necessary to Become Greatly Accomplished? The Difference between Buddha-Dharma and Qigong,” a discourse given by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III that comments on the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva Great Compassion ...

A Kuan Yin Bodhisattva Great Compassion Empowerment was recently held at the Heartwood Retreat Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina. This is the second time this empowerment has been given in English. Many of those participating experienced profound encounters from the Great Compassionate One and found old illnesses and pains disappear and emotional blockages released. Some had immediate relief, and others only noticed that long-standing aches and pains were gone after the ceremony.

People came from all over the United States as ...