On February 24, 2024 we continued our study of DCB22- Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart Sutra-I by exploring how the methods of the various sects or schools of Buddhism work and...
On February 17, 2024 we continued our study of DCB22- Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart Sutra-I by looking at examples of how Avalokiteshvara saves living beings, what is the mission and nature...
World’s tallest statue of Buddha (175 feet tall) in Bamiyan, in Afghanistan. Before it was destroyed by Taliban Islamic militia in 2001. I’ve updated this article from 2021 and 2018 to include more links to...
I have already reported that I now have permission to read a preliminary and unapproved translation of the 2010 release of the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) at the temple, which we did at...
The Five Turbidities are listed as 1.) the defilement of views, when incorrect, perverse thoughts and ideas are predominant; 2.) the defilement of passions, when all kinds of transgressions are exalted; 3.) the...
The answer is, “No.” They may represent a true lineage of a genuine sect of Buddhism, but most of the leaders of Buddhism today, in this Dharma-Ending Age are shams because their cultivation and practice are...
In 2008, I had the good fortune to meet with H.H. Penor Rinpoche at his American retreat center in upstate New York and heard the former head of the Nyingma Sect, the oldest Buddhist lineage in Tibet, praise H.H. Dorje...