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The World’s Largest Buddhist Temple

Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia. My brother Glenn sent me this video and I wanted to share it with you. This seventh or ninth century Mahayana Buddhist Temple is one place I would still like to visit. I knew it had...

Dance Offering

Natta Hua Ling Quintero came to the temple last week to reread the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation and continue her study of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. She had both her...

Tofu “Haloumi”

This is the best way to serve tofu that I know. Regular dairy haloumi (or halloumi) is a semi-hard unripened Mediterranean cheese usually made with goat’s or sheep’s milk that has an unusually high melting...

My Book has arrived

Details of “Jewels” that appeared on Grass Mandala. My publisher just told me I would soon receive some copies of Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform. I did publish some...

Chowder of the Sea

Chowder of the Sea. I made this soup last week with a stray salmon filet and a piece of cod I found in the back of my cave freezer, but you can also make it a vegan dinner with kelp broth and tofu or white beans...

The Cat Who Went to Heaven as he appeared in painting.

The Cat Who Went to Heaven

The Cat Who Went to Heaven as he appeared in painting. ELIZABETH COATSWORTH WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDAL Once upon a time, far away in Japan, a poor young artist sat alone in his little house, waiting for his dinner. His...