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Daily Contemplation of the “Most Excellent Enlightenment Emptiness-Practice Oceanic Mind-Essence”

My painting of Vajrasattva Mahasattva. I would like to offer more access to the SAUMOL for those who would like to be able to practice this wonderful Dharma, but who can not understand the Chinese text and do not have...

May 23, 2021

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The Wheel of Life showing the Buddha in all of the Six Realms of the Desire Realm, a painting at the Holy Vajrasana Temple.

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“Reincarnation Now”

The Wheel of Life showing the Buddha in all of the Six Realms of the Desire Realm, a painting at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. Avram Alpert has published an especially delightful and informative essay on why reincarnation...

May 16, 2021

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“Why I Am Not A Buddhist”–Book Review

Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. I started this book by Evan Thompson hoping to find a critique of trends in Buddhism, as it is currently practiced in the West, by a person...

April 26, 2021

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Thinking About Buddha: A Review of “Why I Am Not a Buddhist”

Don Asper. The following is a review of Evan Thompson’s book “Why I Am Not a Buddhist” by Don Asper, a long-time disciple of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Don is a gifted musician and retired IT person who often brings...

April 25, 2021

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Why Evan Thompson Isn’t a Buddhist

Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. This article is from a conversation between Sam Littlefair with scholar Evan Thompson about his new book “Why I am not a Buddhist” and why...

April 25, 2021

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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...

April 11, 2021

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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...

April 11, 2021

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Buddha-dharma My Book

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...

April 5, 2021

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

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The Cat Who Went to Heaven and 128 Views

The Cat Who Went to Heaven as he appeared in the temple painting. Aside from fairly simplified understanding of Buddhism that did not reflect the Buddhist cosmology and saw the events of the Buddha’s life through...

April 4, 2021

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Buddha-dharma Events Miracles Quotes

The 128 Evil and Erroneous Views–New Translation, Revised

If you thought what I read this morning didn’t quite match what is printed below, you are right as I picked up an earlier translation to read and did not realize that until almost the end. Sorry, what is printed...

April 4, 2021

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