On February 3, 2024 we finished our discussion of Learning from Buddha College and Seminary Lesson 6 of C41(A)-The Three Principal Stages and Paths of Buddhist Practice that was part of the Buddha Master’s...
Understand that karmic hindrances are originally empty. Those who have not yet understood this must first repay their karmic debts from previous lives. Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-Part One,H.H...
If one has not realized emptiness of self, how could one be unimpeded by sentient beings and insentient things?” To realize other-emptiness, one must achieve self-emptiness. Thus, one cannot deviate from the true...
Yi Que Dan Pu-Rinpoche and wife, Xin Wang, visit the Holy Vajra Poles. Yi Que Dan Pu-Rinpoche returned to the temple today with his wife, Xin Wang, to pay their respects to the Holy Vajra Poles and the descendent of the...
Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche Reading Preliminary Translation of Part One of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra at Hua Zang Si, San Francisco, California. Last weekend, I read from Part One of...
Hua Zang Si has released their 2024 calendar of scheduled Dharma Assemblies with the next one celebrating Maitreya Bodhisattva scheduled for February 4, starting at 9:30 am. All of the other assemblies will also be held...
In 1992, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III gave a series of very famous discourses in China using the text, meaning, and principles of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra to clearly explain the...
On January 20 we finished our discussion of the paramitas and other Bodhisattva practices part of Lesson 5 of C41(A)-The Three Principal Stages and Paths of Buddhist Practice. After summarizing the six paramitas...
Practitioners must especially bear in mind that becoming awakened to the reality state of the three prajnas is not tantamount to attaining liberation and does not mean that cultivation is no longer needed. I previously...