Original Site-Sanger
Funding is needed to complete the driveway, parking, water tower and fire hydrant, water supply system, landscaping, and irrigation before we will be allowed to open the temple in Sanger to the public.
You can continue to visit the Holy Vajra Poles and receive their blessings. You can continue to make offerings that will be installed under the twenty-one prayer wheels that will be part of the new Green Tara Temple complex to be constructed in Hesperia, California. The requests that have been received to date are being stored in their gold, silver, or other appropriate colored envelopes in a safe in a secure location right next to the Holy Vajra Poles. You can also come and visit the Abbot who will continue to live at the temple and join her and the temple monastics in their daily chanting and meditation practice and listening to dharma discourses by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. The abbot also conducts seminars and workshops on these dharma discourses at various locations on ZOOM and through the Xuanfa Institute’s LEARNING FROM BUDDHA COLLEGE AND SEMINARY. Click for the current schedule of temple events and more on the LFB College and Seminary (site under construction).
Buddha Town-Southern California
We are still in the planning stage at the second site and will need to obtain the appropriate permits and approvals to proceed, but the following represents our thinking to date. Because we want to emulate the isolated hermit caves high in the mountains of Tibet and still orient this temple to its American roots, we hope to use natural materials and a style that is indigenous to the area. We also want something that is suitable for the extremes in climate that prevail in the high desert.
There are many ways you can help develop and participate in the Holy Vajrasana Green Tara Temple & Retreat Center at the site of the True Dharma Temple in Buddhist Town at Heavenly Lakes in Hesperia, California. To help make it a reality, you can contribute to the cost of constructing the monastic residences, and the new temple and other facilities as well as the overall cost of site development. You can learn the art of building the adobe structures and help in constructing the temple and other structures. You may even be able to build your own private meditation cave at the site. You may also want to build and operate a small shop on the banks of the canal that will connect all of the activities at the site to the True Dharma Temple itself. And when the projects are complete, you can come and worship in the temple as well as attend retreats and other events at the center to deepen your practice and meditation experience.
1-Build Your Own Private Meditation Cave
There are several ways that Members of the Xuanfa Institute can build their own private meditation “cave” at the site of the True Dharma Temple.
2-Holy Vajrasana Green Tara Temple at Holy Heavenly Lake Site
A small temple designed to serve the local community and the non-Chinese speaking disciples staying at the site will be built using ecologically proven techniques.
3-Monastic Residences at the Holy Vajrasana Green Tara Temple & Retreat Center
Both monks and nuns and dedicated lay people will be needed to operate the small temple and maintain the facility as well as support and monitor those who come to take retreats. The plans call for separate double ecodome buildings for men and women with four-five small sleeping domes, study and meeting rooms in each plus multi-user bathrooms.
CLICK for information on how to donate to the temple
and help bring the Buddha-dharma to America