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Karolin, shown above with her daughter Julie, the wife of Gongjue Tuji Rinpoche of the Xuanfa Dharmazentrum (Dharma Center) in Cologne, Germany was diagnosed with a rare and very dangerous form of thyroid cancer.

Her husband, a devout practitioner of Green Tara and student of Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche, reports on how Green Tara appeared to him and told him not to worry. Karolin had received several special vajra pills. Her surgery went very well and she is doing very well. Click ...

Rinpoches affiliated with the Xuanfa Institute visited the Institute and helped with various projects to develop and maintain the site. One morning, while posing for a group photo, a very bright golden orb of light appeared, pulsated and vibrated over their heads and disappeared. It was visible to those taking photos and was captured on the digital camera, and very briefly on a video camera. It had also appeared on other photos and once outside the library window.

Sanger, CA: Many people from all over China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Europe, Canada, and the US visited the Xuanfa Institute this year to see and receive the blessings of the Vajra Poles. Some returned with other family members to experience the Vajra Poles again. Often the Vajra Poles quaked and trembled for the visitors. Sometimes there were visitors from other realms that appeared as well as we see above with this visitor from Shanghai. Beautiful colored lights were captured on the visitors’ cameras.  Everyone ...

Reba Jinbo Rinpoche and Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche flew to Las Vegas to bring back three magnificent golden statues of ancient buddhas–Shakyamuni Buddha, Manjushri Bodhisattva, and Kuan Yin Bodhisattva. Both of the Bodhisattvas are really ancient Buddhas who have come back to this world as bodhisattvas to help living beings develop their wisdom and compassion so that we, too, can become buddhas. Here you see the statues being lovingly and carefully wrapped, first in silk, and then in many layers ...

Students visited Zhaxi Zhuoma and the Xuanfa Institute to work on many projects including repairing the fence that surrounds the lake. They  also explored the attic to see what could be done to remodel the Buddha Hall and found in the pictures they took that the entire attic was packed with Dharma or Vajra Wheels (orbs). There have been many sightings of these mysterious light beings at the Institute and other places where the Buddha-dharma is being propagated. The ...

Xuanfa Institute has been very fortunate to receive several outstanding gifts for the future temple and retreat center. Disciples in Beijing sent a rare antique phuba bearing the head of the Horse-Head (or Horse-necked One) Deity, Hayagriva. Hayagriva is a wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara (Kuan Yin) Bodhisattva having three faces, six arms, and a horse or several horses growing on top of his head. The horse is significant for it’s neigh is believed to cut through false attachments, revealing the ...

Located in the heart of downtown San Francisco on 1025 Market Street near Sixth Street, The International American Art Museum is a permanent, non-profit museum open to the public. The Museum’s goal is to utilize the exhibition forum to pass on works of art that have achieved the most exquisite beauty and preciousness in the history of civilization, in order to further humanity’s moral progress, spiritual wellbeing, cultural development, and world peace. It takes as its mission bringing humanity happiness ...

Students came to the Xuanfa Institute over the Labor Day weekend to visit Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche. The group worked on many projects while there. They also visited and enjoyed a picnic lunch at Yosemite National Park.

Click for more photos of other field trips sponsored by the Xuanfa Institute at Yosemite and other national parks, various Buddhist monasteries, and other locations in California and other parts of the world.

 People in charge of more than 6,000 Buddhist temples and dharma centers gathered at the Asia World Expo in Hong Kong. They came from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the United States, Canada, Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Austria, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and other countries and regions to participate in the “International Buddhism Sangha Association’s 2011 Conference to Commend Those Who Have Accumulated Merit by Propagating Dharma and Benefiting Living Beings & Third Ceremony in Hong Kong to Confer the ...

While attending the annual IBSA conference in Hong Kong, Sangha members visited the spectacular Big (Tian Tan) Buddha located at the Po Lin Monastery atop a mountain on Lantau Island next to the village of Ngong Ping. The majestic figure of the once tallest, outdoor, seated Buddha unveiled in December 1993 was cast in bronze in China. It is 112 feet (34 meters) tall and weighs 280 tons. Its base is a model of the Altar of Heaven or Earthly Mount of ...