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February Retreat at Temple will focus on Prajna, Parami, and Ta

There are still a few beds open at the temple and room for many more commuters to our February 7-14 retreat on the Heart Sutra. We will have Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Theravada disciples and both lay and monastics...

January 12, 2020

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QUOTE–Right Understanding & Views

You must become pure masters on the path to enlightenment. Even if masters in Buddhist circles, including all of you, all have complaints about me and all leave me, I still must talk about right understanding and right...

June 17, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events Miracles

Dharma King Gar Tongstan predicted when and expalined why he would leave this world

The World Buddhism Association Headquarters (WBAH) was asked: “Several years ago, Dharma King Gar Tongstan already wrote to the Jue Xing Temple in Taiwan, stating clearly that he could not serve as their abbot...

November 25, 2018

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Listen to “Expounding the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra”

We will start listening to Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra, a book by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III based on a series of very famous discourses given in China in the 1990s, using the text, meaning...

October 28, 2018

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“Living Beings Are Lost in Their Deluded Self, Not Seeing Their True Self”

An excellent CD of a recent dharma discourse given by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III has just been released in both English and Chinese. It is an excellent introduction to the study of both the Supreme and Unsurpassable...

October 28, 2018

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Dharma King Gar Tongstan Chooses to Move On

On September 20, 2018, Dharma King Gar Tongstan left this world in a perfectly liberated state, just as he had predicted he would. He said he would leave this world after a “last dharma assembly.” That is...

September 23, 2018

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Buddha-dharma Quotes

QUOTE–Eleven Principles

In the introduction to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s book “Learning From Buddha,” the Buddha Master tells us that we should: Stay far away from feudal superstition, strange or heretically induced...

May 8, 2018

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Important Announcements from the World Buddhism Association Headquarters

If you want to become enlightened in this lifetime, you need to seek and receive a true inner-tantric initiation. Starting on day one of this year’s Lunar New Year (February 16, 2018), Holy Virtuous ones and...

March 26, 2018

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