Giant Prayer Wheel at Land of Medicine Buddha, Soquel, California. Architectual drawing of Mahabodhi Stupa at Land of Medicine Buddha, Soquel, California. The Land of Medicine Buddha was opened as a Dharma and Retreat...
Holy Vajrasana Temple, Buddha Hall with “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” in front of the Buddha. The self-study questions have been added to DCB25-Expounding the Absolute Truth through...
Click the box below for a list of other ways to help. This one is from the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena who was in the fire evacuation zone for the Pasadena/Altadena fire. The World Buddhism Association Headquarters...
Today we discussed the methods used by different schools and traditions to attain awakening including the Chan/Zen School, the Dharma Characteristics-Consciousness Only School, the Pure Land School, the Huayen...
A map and a link to another article on how the major traditions spread throughout Asia have been added at the bottom of this article. The above graphic shows truncated sources of the various Buddhist lineages and the...
Please join Fa Zang Lama and Fa Chan Temple with helping provide water and other supplies to fellow Californians suffering from the fires in Southern California. Fa Zang Lama will start by bringing supplies to the Rose...
Photo of the brown area already burned by the Eaton FIre in Pasadena-Altadena, California, January 10, 2025. Although the temple is still safe, the nuns had to evacuate on Wednesday, January 8 and the fire has only been...
We started our discussion today of the mahayana state of prajna expressed in the words “…no suffering, no accumulation, no cessation, and no path; . . .” from the Heart Sutra. The following is a...
The Dorje Chang Buddha Lineage Refuge Tree with the Dharma Protectors from left to right: Yama, Hayagriva, Yamataka, Ekajati, Lion Vajra, Kalachakra, Vajrakilaya, Chakrasamvara, Mahakala, Guhyasamaja. Although this...
Vulture Peak (GridhrakÅ«ta) in Rajgir, India. At our class discussion on August 24, 2024, we discussed the second and third sentences from the Prajna-Paramita Heart Sutra: “Sariputra, form does not differ from...