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Sheltered-in-place means we will miss our annual pilgrimage to Sonora to see the arrival of peachicks. Lucky, an abandoned runt, has been frequenting our Saturday morning Open Mike sessions of the Lemonade Sangha. Since we are quarantined in Sanger, we can only share photos that Uma and Reba have sent us, but let’s hope next year will be better. It looks like there was a bumper crop. Reba counted how many hens and chicks were settling in, but I lost ...

From February 7-14, 2020, students came to Sanger to hear and read a preliminary translation of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. They then continued for a class in Rosemead on February 15 at the Amitabha Temple of Compassion and Wisdom. Although the Sanger classes focused on the Buddha Master’s details of each word in the title of this sutra, the group also heard the discourse given at the end of that book that offered what needs to ...

In the Great Hall of Shakyamuni Buddha at the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena, California, a dharma assembly was held to evaluate and distinguish the actual realization power among cultivators. The “Exam of Lifting the Pestle onto the Platform” was administered whereby cultivators who learn from Buddha attempted to lift pestles or weights varying from several dozen to approximately 440 pounds onto a platform. Unexpectedly, this Exam inadvertently required the involvement of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III who could not ...

The first English-language Dharma Class at the temporary location of the Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center at 10161 Choiceana Avenue, Hesperia, California was held the first Sunday of the new year. Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche, the Abbot of The Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center is shown above giving a talk introducing both Buddhism and H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III along with how you can start the path to liberation from the suffering and pain of Samsara.

Another class was ...

The photo of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III was taken while He was expounding a discourse on ”The Intrinsically Existing Truth of No Arising and No Ceasing in the Universe and in Human Lives Realized by the Buddha Was Not Created by the Buddha” at the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena, California on October 2019. CLICK for link to article on the Dharma Discourse being expounded in the video. ...

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 ...