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Fish Release Video from Hua Zang Si

Releasing fish. On H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day, January 19, 2023, Hua Zang Si (a Buddhist temple in San Francisco) held a Freeing Captured Living Beings (Fish Release) Dharma Assembly at San Rafael, California. The...

January 30, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 21, 2023

The Saturday morning discussions for LFBCS students started again at 9:00 am, January 21, 2023, on the title of the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra with the third of many sessions on “Prajna,” one of the most important and...

January 26, 2023

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Maitreya Bodhisattva Dharma Assembly Held at Hua Zang Si

Maitreya Bodhisattva at Hua Zang Si, San Francisco, CA. Hua Zang Si, a temple in San Francisco, California held its annual Dharma Assembly to celebrate the birthday of Maitreya Bodhisattva on January 15, 2023. It is...

January 26, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 14, 2023

The Saturday morning discussions for LFBCS students started again at 9:00 am, January 14, 2023, on the title of the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra with the second of many sessions on “Prajna,” one of the most...

January 17, 2023

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The Christmas light decorations of the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum building attracted a large number of local residents. (Photo by David McCarty)

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Notice of the Lives-releasing Event to Celebrate the “H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day”

On January 19, 2011, Mayor Vincent C. Gray of Washington DC, the capital of the USA, proclaimed that the Nineteenth of January 2011 to be the “His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III Day”, and called upon...

January 17, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 7, 2023

The Saturday morning discussions for LFBCS students started again at 9:00 am, January 7, 2023, on the title of the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra with the first of many sessions on “Prajna,” one of the most...

January 8, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 1, 2023

Two new courses—D07.1(A)-Concise Discourses and D07:2(A)-Discourses by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Answers Questions from Western Disciples—from 2006 and 2009 are available for all beginning students. Questions range...

January 1, 2023

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Eight Treasure (Laba) Congee

We celebrate the year-end retreat around Rohatsu, the Japanese term for the day of Shakyamuni Buddha’s Enlightenment. In Japan they use the Gregorian Calendar and celebrate the day on the eighth day of December, but we...

December 30, 2022

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 24, 2022

We have a new class that has been added to the curriculum–B24-Lady Niguma (10th-11th century CE). I have only done about half of the homework, but the structure is there for anyone wanting to start the course. It...

December 24, 2022

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha Lifts 437* Pound Vajra Pestle

On December 23, 2021 H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III lifted the Buddha Vajra Pestle with a hook and one hand after three professional strongmen could not as shown in the video below. English translation is added below...

December 24, 2022

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