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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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Food

Mushroom & Seaweed Soup

This delicious soup recipe comes from the wonderful cooks at Heartwood Retreat Center in North Carolina. I don’t use the dulse seaweed, but the original recipe calls for it. I feasted on it every day while staying...

November 10, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Quotes

QUOTE–Secular Buddhism

I don’t believe the secular brand of Buddhism with its focus on being the best me, or on therapy, or on succeeding at business and personal relationships has retained its original value and purpose of helping us...

October 6, 2019

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Manjurshri Bodhisattva stands guard over the Chinese edition of ‘Expounding the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra’ on the altar in the Buddha Hall at the Holy Vajrasana Temple.

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Description of October 11-20 Retreat-Classes on Expounding the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra at Temple

The upcoming retreat to continue studying the preliminary translation of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra will start on Friday evening at 7:00 pm with my reading an introduction to the Sutra by H.H...

October 6, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events Miracles

Holy Vajrasana Temple Video

A documentary film was released at the International Buddhism Sangha Association Conference held in Hong Kong on August 6, 2011, that explains how a fourth vajra throne was recognized at the Xuanfa Institute near...

October 6, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events Retreats

Thanks, for the Kindles–A Provisional Detailed Table of Contents-UPDATED AGAIN

I will continue to update this Table of Contents as I review and analyze the text. I realize that parts of the preliminary translations I currently have are not yet ready for posting on kindle, but I will add sections...

October 5, 2019

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