A Blog offered by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche
A Blog offered by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche
A Blog offered by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche

Author - Zhaxi Zhuoma

Buddhist camp in back near trees with orange TIbetan door.
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Keystone Pipeline Dead

Buddhist camp in back near trees with maroon and saffron TIbetan door. On June 9. 2021 TransCanada (TC) Energy cancelled all their remaining plans for the Keystone XL pipeline. This came as good news to the native...

June 13, 2021
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Guny's Slaw.
Food

Guny’s Slaw

Guny’s Slaw. When Bhikkhu Gunaratana stayed at the temple, I would make this salad for him. He liked it so much and could eat so much of it, I named it for him. It is a road map type of recipe that can go in...

June 13, 2021
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Potato Salad with Lovage and Lox

Potato Salad with Lovage and Lox. Another lovage recipe that turned out very well. The original was made with bacon, but it is very good with lox. You can leave out the lox for a vegan version, but I would add a drop or...

June 4, 2021
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Mushroom, Lovage, and Wild Rice Soup

Just made this wonderful soup with the lovage I now have growing inside. I had the lovage in a pot on my patio, but the 107 degree heat caused it to wilt so badly, I needed to harvest the limp leaves and bring the rest...

June 4, 2021
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Photo of Venerable Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves
Buddha-dharma

The Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra

Translated and edited from the Chinese (Kumarajiva ed. T.475) by Charles Luk (Lu K’uan Yi) in 1972. CHAPTER ONE: THE BUDDHA LAND Thus have I heard, once upon a time the Buddha sojourned in the Amra park at Vaisali...

June 1, 2021
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Memorial Day Retreat

Oryoki breakast during Memorial Day Retreat 2021. The retreat was held under COVID rules requiring masks except for meals and social distancing, but we managed to cover all of Part One which just explained each word in...

May 25, 2021
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