H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. I am so happy to be able to read for you the SAUMOL during our virtual Sunday Service. I will continue this coming Sunday, March 14, with the third mind-essence, the “Most Excellent...
Private Class on the SAUMOL in the Abbot’s Study, Holy Vajrasana Temple. We are a little bit back in business. This weekend we had two students come to study the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation...
We have started reading from certain sutras at our Sunday morning service. Today we listened to the first part of Chapter 25, often referred to as the Kuan Yin or Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva chapter or sutra. Next week...
We held our first Sunday chanting and meditation session at the temple this morning. Chanting started at 7:00 am. The Meeting Room opens around 6:45 am, but you need to be checked in before 7:00. Once I start there may...
I wasn’t sure it was a good idea to hold another class on What Is Cultivation?, but it was. I think we could have spent another hour having all 37-38 who attended giving their stories on how they were taking...
Click the following English & Spanish chant titles for articles on this blog about the individual chants. Incense Offering–Ofrenda de incienso The Four Bodhisattva Vows–Los Cuatro Vows del Bodhisattva...
Every morning and before starting any new endeavor, we chant the “Tashi Tsigpa” or “The Verses of the Eight Noble Auspicious Ones” in English and Tibetan and when someone is present who can lead...
This simple chant is offered at the beginning of most activities at our and most Buddhist temples and ceremonies to all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Mahasattvas. Non-Buddhists sometimes mistake our devotion as...
If you have attended retreats or dharma assemblies at the Holy Vajrassana Temple, you have probably used our chant book and you may have noticed that it is evolving. We started with pretty much what our other temples...