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In conjunction with the opening of the “Exhibition of Unprecedented Achievements,” a collection of 130 of H.H. Master Wan Ko Yee’s recent works of supernatural abstract colors titled, Painting: The Zenith of Color, was published in English. Several of these large paintings in various media were included in exhibitions held in San Francisco and the Los Angeles area. “Amazing View of the World” from the cover of Painting: The Zenith of Color by H.H. Master Wan Ko Yee is shown above.

An exhibition of some of the accomplishments of His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III (Master Wan Ko Yee) was held at Hua Zang Si in San Francisco from March 4 through November 9, 2006. “Beautiful Nugget of Few Colors” shown above was one of the large abstract glass paintings on exhibit. It is also included as an example of “Technological Art” in the book H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. The paintings of “Two Houses” and “Monk Ji Gong” as well as this example of H.H. Dorje Chang ...

Chief Rinpoche Venerable Akou Lamo, Dharma Teachers, and nuns,A special Dharma Assembly was held at the Southern California Chapter of the United International World Buddhism Association Headquarters (UIWBAH) in Monterey Park, California to practice the Dharma for those who perished and are suffering as a result of Hurricane Katrina. A similar ceremony was held at Hua Zang Si (temple) in San Francisco. At the assembly in southern California, Dharma Teacher Long Hui, the abbess of Hua Zang Si, announced the ...

Biloxi, Mississippi:The Chau Van Duc Vietnamese Temple in Biloxi, Mississippi, held its grand opening, with 53 visitors from around the country, on August 28, 2005. More than 1,000 families arrived to join the celebration the day before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast community. A day later, the out-of-town visitors including 30 monks, survived Katrina’s fury by punching a hole in the ceiling of the temple’s storage closet and crouching in the crawl space under the roof. Ven. Thich Thien ...

The statue of Dharma Protector Guan Yu was installed at Hua Zang Si on Saturday, July 30, 2005. Chief Rinpoche and head of the temple, Akou Lamo Rinpoche conducted the ceremony and lead the Dharma Assembly outdoors to the pavilion where the Dharma Protector was to reside. The Abbess of the temple, Long Hui Fa Shi, removed the red velvet cloth that covered the statue. Then eight laymen (Ju-shi) carried the large wooden statue using only white silk hardas. ...

As students performed skits and other shows in honor of H.H.Wan Ko Yisinubu’s birthday, the beautiful jacaranda tree over the veranda began raining. Hanging in this tree was a very large thangka of the thousand-armed Kuan Yin Bodhisattva that had been specially requested from the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet to celebrate His Holiness’s birthday. Just like two years earlier, the sweet, fragrant dew descended from a bright blue, cloudless sky and only in the vicinity of this one tree. Sometimes ...

Although this was a high level inner tantric initiation and as such cannot be publicly discussed or shared with others in detail, an exception was made to allow Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche to briefly tell others of her experience so that they can learn of the true power of the magnificent Buddha-dharma. A ritual was performed for the rinpoche to remove certain negative karma that was an obstacle to her achievement of liberation. After the dharma protecting deities arrived and the the Buddha-dharma was practiced,the Vajra Dharma Wheel quickly exhibited samadhi. Very quickly, ...