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The Christmas light decorations of the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum building attracted a large number of local residents. (Photo by David McCarty)

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural & Art Museum Participated in Covina’s Tree Lighting Festival

The Christmas light decorations of the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum building attracted a large number of local residents. (Photo by David McCarty) The City of Covina’s Tree Lighting Festival was...

November 10, 2021

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Saving Living Beings

On October 29, the day we traditionally seek to release captive living beings from their capturers, the nuns at our temple held a release of fishing worms to live on in the ground around our Bodhi Tree. Fa Heng Shi...

November 4, 2021

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Discourse Read from Trip to Taiwan on “Basic Concepts-2”

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. This Discourse from the Buddha Master’s 1995 trip to Taiwan starts with several examples of people who were able to gain control of birth and death. The discourse also contains a discussion...

October 30, 2021

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Your Yidam

The green light flashed at a dharma ceremony when a certain vajra pill was activated. This is a reposting of an article posted over a year ago that bears repeating. Some of you have asked me about yidams and yidam...

October 25, 2021

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Photo of Kuan Yin Bodhisattva of the Southern Seas, Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, MO.

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Dharma Class on Shantideva’s “Bodhisattvacharyavatara” will continue on December 19, 2021

Guan Yin Bodhisattva of the Southern Seas, Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, MO. On October 3, 2021, we finished reading the text of Shantideva’s “A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life.” It was decided...

October 24, 2021

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Discourse Read from Trip to Taiwan on “Basic Concepts-1”

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. We will start at the beginning of the discourses H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III gave on a 1995 trip to Taiwan where He presented various aspects of the Buddha Dharma. In this discourse He...

October 24, 2021

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Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche reading a preliminary translation of a Dharma Discourse by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III to the Lemonade Sangha.

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Spirit Beings join our Classes

On our October 17 class we had other “visitors” join us. Just before the class started, I saw a small orb-like light dance behind me while I was looking at the ZOOM screen. Then I noticed a large light form on the right...

October 24, 2021

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III delivering Dharma Discourse on ”The Intrinsically Existing Truth of No Arising and No Ceasing in the Universe and in Human Lives Realized by the Buddha Was Not Created by the Buddha” at the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena, California.

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“Probe the Fundamental Origin of Propagating True Buddha-dharma” Video with English Translation of Transcript

CLICK for English translation of the text of this video. This past week several people asked me about this video, so I thought I would post it again for those who missed it and/or maybe did not see the English...

October 16, 2021

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Dharma Discourses Read on the “Differences Between Exoteric & Esoteric Buddhism”

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. On Tuesday, October 5, and again on Saturday, October 9, 2021, we listened to a reading of a preliminary translation of the first part of another discourse expounded by H.H. Dorje Chang...

October 14, 2021

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Did Buddhist Monks Reach North America in 1350?

Zuni Dancers. Professor Nancy Davis from the University of Chicago has published “The Zuni Enigma: a Native American People’s Possible Japanese Connection,” where she develops the concept that the Zuni people in New...

October 4, 2021

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