“Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Learn about the dharma of Zen practice taught by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III who provides essential mantras & methods for proper practice of Zen as...
“Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” on the altar at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. The Learning from Buddha College and Seminary will begin weekly ZOOM class discussions on Part Two of the...
Put together, the six characters for prajna-paramita mean relying on supreme wisdom to thoroughly illuminate the power of dhyana, using right dhyana to produce the wisdom of prajna, and, with equality of dhyana and...
On February 3, 2024 we finished our discussion of Learning from Buddha College and Seminary Lesson 6 of C41(A)-The Three Principal Stages and Paths of Buddhist Practice that was part of the Buddha Master’s...
Understand that karmic hindrances are originally empty. Those who have not yet understood this must first repay their karmic debts from previous lives. Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-Part One, H.H...
If one has not realized emptiness of self, how could one be unimpeded by sentient beings and insentient things?” To realize other-emptiness, one must achieve self-emptiness. Thus, one cannot deviate from the true...
Yi Que Dan Pu-Rinpoche and wife, Xin Wang, visit the Holy Vajra Poles. Yi Que Dan Pu-Rinpoche returned to the temple today with his wife, Xin Wang, to pay their respects to the Holy Vajra Poles and the descendent of the...
Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche Reading Preliminary Translation of Part One of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra at Hua Zang Si, San Francisco, California. Last weekend, I read from Part One of...