Archive for 2019

We attended the spectacular display of lights offered by the Chinese government at the Los Angeles Arboretum in Arcadia, California. Not only were there many light displays, but Chinese acrobats performed. This is the second year this festival has been booked at the Arboretum.

The Northern California Sangha continued their intensive study of the penetrating and profound book by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha entitled Learning From Buddha, finishing Part II and gaining a better understanding as to how a tantric or yidam practice actually works. A bilingual class on Part III will be held later in the fall at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. Check the SCHEDULE for actual time and place. This was the ...

Students gathered at the Holy Vajrasana Temple near Sanger, California to hear and discuss the preliminary translation of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra this week. Previous classes had met to study the meaning of the title of the Prajna Parami-ta Heart Sutra, learning the meaning and significance of each word or character in the title. This week the class began with the commentary by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha on the Heart Sutra itself ...

Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche read a preliminary translation of “The Xian Most Excellent Oceanic Mind-Essence” from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) at the New Renaissance Bookshop in Portland, Oregon this morning. This dharma is one of three great mind-essences from the SAUMOL that provides the preliminary practice for The Blessings, Longevity, and Wealth Accomplishment Dharma and part of the preliminary practice for The Ascending to the Stage of a Great Bodhisattva Accomplishment Dharma. The rinpoche also provided background ...

A cruise to see the famous glaciers of Alaska shown above aboard the Ruby Princess from July 20-27, 2019 went up to the State’s capitol to Juneau, then to Skagway, the gateway to the Klondike Gold Rush territory and its rich and colorful history via a delightful recycled narrow gage railway. The White Pass and Klondike line ran through the beautiful Tongass National Forest to the Canadian border and beyond. Next a day was spent exploring Glacier Bay National Park ...

Classes were held in San Diego on July 13 & 14 on the “Most Excellent Enlightenment Emptiness-Practice Oceanic Mind-Essence” from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL). This is the third mind essence from this dharma. the second mind essence, “The Xiaman Most Excellent Oceanic Mind-Essence” was heard and discussed last month. Out-of-town participants also toured downtown San Diego and enjoyed the sunset at the aircraft carrier-museum-park shown above and the boats in the harbor shown below.

We contemplated ...

The Spanish Sangha of Northern California has been meeting monthly to study a preliminary English translation of three related discourses given by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in 2015 and published as Learning from Buddha. The content of these three lessons is so important that His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha requires that anyone wishing to receive a dharma transmission or initiation from Him, must bring this book with them and be interviewed to make certain they understand these lessons before ...

Old and new students heard a preliminary English translation of the second mind essence — “The Xiaman Most Excellent Oceanic Mind-Essence” — of the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) as transmitted by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in San Diego today at the Eye of Buddha Store at 4247 Park Blvd. Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche explained the origins and importance of this great work and how it is available in seven types of dharma practices at different ...

NEWS: new family of baby peachicks have just arrived (7-2-2019). Not so many peachicks this season, but it is always a joy to visit with the flora and fauna that share the home of Uma and Reba in Sonora. The four remaining chicks were busy being the delightful little bundles of fluff and feathers that they can be, but the males had mostly lost their tail feathers and were slinking around in disgrace like the one above heading for the ...