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Interested in Group Meditation Retreat in the Mountains?

I have been thinking about ways to help people who want to deepen their Dharma practice. This could include those who want to prepare for taking solitary retreats at either the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center...

July 8, 2025

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Series of Classes on the Heart Sutra to be offered at Holy Heavenly Lake, Hesperia, California Starting July 20, 2025

Buddhist Town, Hesperia, California. Starting July 20, I will read from a preliminary translation of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra and lead a discussion of what H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III wrote...

July 8, 2025

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HHL Buddhist Town Newsletter, June 2025

Lotus at Buddhist Town, Hesperia, California. Buddhist Town’s annual event included exhibitions, a Wiser tournament, seminars, and an outdoor meditation session by the lake. The event ended with praying and...

July 3, 2025

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HHL Buddhist Town Newsletter, May 2025

On May 28, Venerable Chandima, founder of the Nagananda International Institute for Buddhist Studies in Sri Lanka, led a delegation of seven, including five senior monastic elders and two lay practitioners, to Los...

July 3, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), June 28, 2025

On June 28 we started our discussion of DCB25 lesson 34 using “THEREFORE, KNOW THAT PRAJNA PARAMITA IS THE GREAT SUPERNORMAL MANTRA, . . .” from the Heart Sutra as our text. The following are...

July 2, 2025

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QUOTE-What Mantras Do

Language cannot be used to explain or clearly state the holy power of mantras. Although their meanings are not clear, mantras have tremendously great and unsurpassed empowerment, an effectiveness that leads the...

July 2, 2025

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Photo of Bell Pavilion at (Mountain Spirit Center (Tae Go Sa) near Tehachapi, California.

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Visiting Various Buddhist Temples near Holy Heavenly Lake, Hesperia, California

Bell Pavilion at Mountain Spirit Center (Tae Go Sa), a Korean meditation retreat center and temple near Tehachapi, California. We decided to provide a flyer and background information on Holy Heavenly Lake and the...

June 30, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), June 21, 2025

On June 21 we finished our discussion of DCB25 lesson 33 using The Perfection of a Buddha from the Heart Sutra as our text. The following are part of the questions discussed: How can one attained anuttara-samyak...

June 25, 2025

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All past Buddhas attained anuttara-samyak-sambodhi because of prajna-paramita. All future Buddhas will also attain anuttara-samyak-sambodhi because of prajna-paramita. All current Buddhas in the countless worlds in the...

June 25, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), June 15, 2025

There was no ZOOM class on June 14, but will resume on June 21 at 9:00 am continuing with Lesson 33 of DCB25 using The Perfection of a Buddha from the Heart Sutra as our text. We did hold a class in...

June 17, 2025

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