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What Is Nectar?

In general, there are two types of nectar: true nectar and false nectar. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III warns us that it is an erroneous view to hold ordinary medicine pills made from sharira (relics) and medicinal herbs...

July 1, 2018

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Nectar Manifests to Honor Publishing of Commentary on the Heart Sutra by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III

In March 2014 an extremely holy book by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, ‘Expounding the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra,’ was published and distributed at a Grand Dharma Assembly held in Hong Kong. Prior to that on...

July 1, 2018

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How is nectar bestowed and what are the various types of nectar?

“Buddha-bestowed nectar” can only be bestowed by Bodhisattvas with universal enlightenment or wonderful enlightenment and Buddhas. A great Bodhisattva can at most bestow nectar through trees or flowers. The difference...

July 1, 2018

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Most of the quotes from H.H Dorje Chang Buddha III posted on this blog are from unapproved translations and may contain errors. Likewise the contents of this blog have not been reviewed or approved by the Buddha and...

June 24, 2018

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What Is a Tantric Initiation and How Important Is It to Receive such an Initiation?

There are different categories and different levels of initiation in Buddhism. There are three erroneous views held by many today concerning tantric initiations: 1) that after you receive a great initiation you no...

June 17, 2018

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III on Inner-Tantric Initiation

I have already mentioned important announcements from the World Buddhism Association Headquarters given during the first 35 days of the Chinese lunar calendar in 2018 concerning receiving true inner-tantric initiations...

June 17, 2018

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The Peapeople of Sonora

At least once a year, we plan a trip to Sonora, California to visit a menagerie of wild turkeys, peafowl, cats, deer, etc. Four new peachicks have joined the ostentation of peafowl that have congregated at Reba and...

June 10, 2018

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Photo of H.H. Penor Rinpoche at his Palyul Retreat Center with Kenpo Tenzin Norgay who served as our translator. Photograph taken after our audience with His Holiness at his North American headquarters and retreat near McDonough, New York.

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Why talk about “Miracles” and supernatural powers?

In 2008, I had the good fortune to meet with H.H. Penor Rinpoche at his American retreat center in upstate New York and heard the former head of the Nyingma Sect, the oldest Buddhist lineage in Tibet, praise H.H. Dorje...

June 10, 2018

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Akou Lamo Rinpoche leading Dharma Assembly at Hua Zang Si in San Francisco.

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The Real Meaning of the Five Vidyas & the Eight WInds

Akou Lamo Rinpoche stated that traditionally, the vidyas are divided into the five major vidyas and the five minor vidyas. The five major vidyas are the silpakarmasthanavidya (craftsmanship vidya), the cikitsvidya...

June 10, 2018

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One Must Manifest the Five Vidyas to Be a Great Holy One

It has been said that some people who are not proficient in the Five Vidyas are still Bodhisattvas, but how can this be? Just being kind, doing good deeds, and being generous with others is good practice and should be...

June 10, 2018

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