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Food

Creamy Mushroom Cauliflower Soup

Creamy Mushroom Cauliflower Soup. This is an excellent vegan soup that we like to serve at the temple. You can leave out the onions and garlic for monastics and serve green onions and/or sautéed onions and garlic in a...

October 4, 2019

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Oryioki Meals at the Temple

Meals served at the temple are based on a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables with a minimum of spices and other stimulants, designed to provide adequate nutrition, while enabling you to remain mentally alert. We...

September 29, 2019

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Formal Release of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” in Hong Kong in 2014

The Chinese edition of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra was released at a formal Dharma Assembly in Hong Kong on March 23, 2014 with great fanfare. The Hong Kong announcer in the video below...

September 29, 2019

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Tashi Tsigpa, The Verses of the Eight Auspicious Ones–Plegaria a Los Ocho Nobles Auspiciosos Que Traen La Dicha

Every morning and before starting any new endeavor, we chant the “Tashi Tsigpa” or “The Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones” in English and Tibetan and when someone is present who can lead...

September 29, 2019

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English and Spanish Translations read at Hua Zang Si on the SAUMOL

I was able to read the preliminary translation of the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) at Hua Zang Si in San Fransisco this weekend while Edwin and Natta translated it into Spanish for our...

September 22, 2019

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Photo of mummy of Chan (Zen) Sixth Patriarch Huineng (638-713) kept in Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan (northern Guangdong) China.

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The Four Bodhisattva Vows–Los Cuatro Vows del Bodhisattva

The second chant, done every morning and known as “The Four Bodhisattva Vows,” is from our refuge ceremony and one of the set of vows taken when you become a Buddhist: The Four Bodhisattva Vows...

September 22, 2019

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Incense Offering–Ofrenda de Incienso: REVISED

This simple chant is offered at the beginning of most activities at our and most Buddhist temples and ceremonies to all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Mahasattvas. Non-Buddhists sometimes mistake our devotion as...

September 22, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events

New Series of Classes Started in San Diego

Couldn’t resist sharing this photo taken in San Juan Capistrano on the way to today’s class on “Learning From Buddha.” This was the first in a series of three classes where H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III told us how and...

September 15, 2019

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“The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation” English and Spanish Classes to be held in San Francisco and in English in Salt Lake City

Come hear a reading of a preliminary and unofficial English translation of the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) at Hua Zang Si, 3134 22nd Street, San Francisco, CA. 94110 (415-920-9816)...

September 12, 2019

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Temple Flooded

Every summer we get snow runoff twice a month from the Sierras in the form of “flood irrigation.” It never rains in Central California in the summer so it is essential. This time a 90-year old neighbor...

September 12, 2019

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