Thirty-Day Chinese Retreat at Temple

Thirty-Day Chinese Retreat at Temple
Serving Oryoki lunch.

Students from China, Taiwan, and the USA came to spend a thirty-day retreat at the temple to do intensive study of the Dharma Discourses given by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and to read the rare and precious Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation text as well practice their dharma. Some were up before dawn to meditate at the site of the Holy Vajra Poles and then do walking meditation around the temple as shown above. They took turns cooking and serving the Oryoki meals and performed the morning and evening temple chants.

Preparing for Oryoki Breakfast.
Morning Service.
Listening to Dharma Discourses.
Reading Expounding the
Group Photo overlooking King Canyon.
Trail markers at King Canyon Overlook.
Lunch.
Lunch.

They also time off to visit nearby King Canyon and Sequoia National parks and also braved the smoke of a major wildfire to visit Yosemite National Park.

Group at Sequoia National Park.
Sequoia trees.
Path to General Grant Sequoia Tree.
Visitors from China at King Canyon National Park.
Group at King Canyon National Park.
Group at Entrance to Yosemite National Park.
Studying the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation.
Listening to Dharma Discourses

 

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2017
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