Image of Mahakala at the Dharma Protector Chapel of the Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California. A new course has been added that is suitable for beginners and anyone wanting to understand and practice the Dharma...
Eihei Dogen watching the moon at the Hokyo-ji Monastery, Japan, ca 1250. The Sansui Kyo, sometimes referred to as the Mountains and Waters Sutra is a short essay by the 13th century Zen Master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253)...
Since we did not have a ZOOM session either last Saturday or today, I have nothing to report on class activity. However, I have been busy and can report that I now have three printed volumes completed of the six I am...
Shakyamuni Buddha. In Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III tells us that “Ancient Buddhas and Bodhisattvas adopted various methods to become accomplished.” In...
C41-Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice Logo for Xuanfa Institute We began Lesson 5-The Great Stage with the Method Path of Bodhichitta. This lesson is concerned with the merit-building part of the...
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...
Since everything is an illusory display, It is possible to attain enlightenment. “Analysis of the Stages of Self-Consecration” by Aryadeva (200-250 CE)
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III delivering Dharma Discourse at the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena, California. We took polls of program preferences after both the Sunday morning Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of...
Xuanfa Institute Logo. The following paragraphs, like the last two blog articles, are from the PREFACE from my forthcoming book Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform. I will...
On March 1 in Hesperia and March 8 in Sanger, we listened to to a new bilingual discourse by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III entitled “Taking Refuge to Become a Buddhist Disciple and Practicing According to the...