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Serving and receiving Oryoki lunch at retreat.

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Seven-Day Retreat Held at Holy Vajrasana Temple

Students came from North Carolina, California, and Arizona to hear and read from a preliminary translation of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. They also were able to hear a newly released discourse...

February 15, 2020

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Buddha Hall at The Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center, Sanger, California.

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Schedule of English & Spanish Buddhist Classes and Retreats for 2020

The following represents the schedule for English and Spanish dharma classes for 2020. Please check calendar before you come as dates may change and new ones may be added. Spanish translators are only confirmed for the...

January 20, 2020

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Apology and Correction

I want to apologize and correct something I said at the class held in San Francisco at Hua Zang Si last week. The English translation from Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra stated that...

January 13, 2020

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day–Classes and Chanting this Sunday in Sanger

In 2011 the mayor of the District of Columbia declared January 19 as His Holiness. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day in the Nation’a capitol. Since then we have celebrated that day, honoring the vast number of...

January 12, 2020

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February Retreat at Temple will focus on Prajna, Parami, and Ta

There are still a few beds open at the temple and room for many more commuters to our February 7-14 retreat on the Heart Sutra. We will have Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Theravada disciples and both lay and monastics...

January 12, 2020

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Class at Hua Zang Si studying "Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra."

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Bilingual Class at Hua Zang Si Study the Matter of Cause and Effect

Saturday, January 11, 2020, nuns and laypersons listened to a reading from a preliminary translation in English and Spanish of part of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s discourse given at the end of His sutra...

January 12, 2020

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Class held at Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center in Hesperia, California on Sunday, January 4, 2020.

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Holy Heavenly Lake Xuanfa Dharma Center Opens in Hesperia

We now have a temporary dharma center located above the site of the future True Dharma Temple and Buddha Town at 10161 Choiceana Avenue in Hesperia, California. We held our first class there this past Sunday (CLICK for...

January 7, 2020

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English-Spanish Class in San Francisco on “The Dharma Needed to Realize Prajna”

I will read from a rare preliminary English translation of a discourse given in China by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III that is included at the end of His famous sutra Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra...

January 7, 2020

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The Xuanfa Five Vidyas University: The Lion Roars

This is just a warning. With the hopeful release of English translations of two important texts by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III soon, the availability of a preliminary translation of Imparting the Absolute Truth Through...

January 2, 2020

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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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Year-End Retreat: Classes on remainder of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra”

The last retreat we have scheduled on the Buddha Master’s sutra that uses the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra to teach us how to realize prajna will start Friday evening, December 27, at 7:00 with the introduction to...

December 22, 2019

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