Zhaxi Zhuoma, Author at Thus Have I Seen (and Heard)

Buddha-dharma Events

New Xuanfa Dharma Center at Holy Heavenly Lake in Hesperia

In anticipation of building a second temple at Holy Heavenly Lake, we would like to start a dharma study group to introduce Buddhism to the local community. We hope to start classes there in January 2020 and continue on...

November 18, 2019

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Food

Egg Curry

This is a simple and tasty dish that can be adapted for lay and monastics alike. It’s composed of ingredients we usually have on hand. If you don’t have cardamom or garam masala in your local markets, you...

November 17, 2019

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Food

Cucumber and Purslane Salad

Sonya has been trying to get me to eat something that I have always considered a weed. I wondered why it seemed to be growing everywhere around the temple when other weeds were quickly pulled out. I found she was...

November 17, 2019

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Events

Attended Moonlight Forest at the Aboretum in Arcadia

We were able to attend a beautiful display of light at the Moonlight Forest, Magical Lantern Art Festival on Saturday evening. It will be available to the public until January 12 at the Los Angeles Arboretum in Arcadia...

November 17, 2019

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Dharma Class in Rosemead on November 15

We will continue listening to preliminary translations by Benxin Chiren Wu of the series of dharma discourses given by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III on “Correcting Dharma and Exposing Evil Monk” at the...

November 10, 2019

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SAUMOL Classes Held in Salt Lake City

Zhaxi Zhuoma read and led a discussion on the Supreme and Unsurpassed Mahamudra of Liberation at the Xuanfa Utah Dharma Center in Salt Lake City, UT on November 2 & 3.

November 10, 2019

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Second “Learning from Buddha” class to be held in San Diego.

“If You Cultivate Yourself, But Do Not Learn Dharma, You Cannot Generate Realization Powers” is the second dharma class from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s book Learning from Buddha, which will be held at the Eye...

November 10, 2019

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE–Prajna

…Regarding how to truly realize prajna, how to use your actual experiences to grasp prajna, you must understand the rules and methods of continual practice.” H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha Expounding the Absolute...

November 10, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events Retreats

October Retreat on the Heart Sutra

Serious students gathered to continue and start their study of the Buddha Master’s sutra based on the Heart Sutra. Others joined the group for the long week end. Although I was able to read much of the text, I had...

November 10, 2019

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Continuing the study of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra”

We have one more retreat this year that will start at 7:00 pm the Friday evening after Christmas and end at noon on the following Friday, January 3, at noon. This retreat will have several parts. We will continue and...

November 10, 2019

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