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LFBCS Residential Program

Lake at the temple after the first snow runoff in 2022. We have started a program of having residential seminary students stay at the temple. These are unique students who want to devote their lives to learning from...

June 25, 2022

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On-Line Memorial Service from the Holy Vajrasana Temple, March 30, 2022

For those of you who cannot attend the real service, but want to show your devotion and gratitude to our guru, please join us at 10:00 am Wednesday, March 30 for a ZOOM memorial service to honor H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha...

March 28, 2022

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Events Retreats

Opening the Holy Vajrasana Temple Again Again

Revised October 31, 2021. We are cleaning the temple, starting a new adobe storage shed, and getting ready for a very ambitions retreat and class schedule starting in January. The rest of this year we will only have...

October 31, 2021

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Dharma Discourse Read on the “Relationship between Main Practices and Preliminary Practices”

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. On September 25 & 28 and on October 2, we held ZOOM classes on the “Relationship between Main Practices and Preliminary Practices” using a preliminary translation of a discourse given by...

October 4, 2021

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The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center with copy of "Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra" on the altar.

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Special Retreat on “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” Held August 20-31, 2021

The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center, Sanger, California, with copy of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra.” We were not successful in reading the entire text of...

August 31, 2021

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Photo of Lotus blooming on Heavenly Lake at Buddha Town in Hesperia, CA.

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Visit to Holy Heavenly Lake at Buddha Town, Hesperia, California

Lotus blooming on Heavenly Lake at Buddha Town in Hesperia, CA. Sunlight sparkled like diamonds on the surface of Holy Heavenly Lake at Buddha Town in Hesperia when our retreat group visited it Saturday afternoon...

August 31, 2021

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Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra Retreat

Studying “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra.” Oryoki lunch during the retreat. We spent Independence Day and the following week on retreat and by chanting, studying Expounding the Absolute Truth...

July 7, 2021

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The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center, Sanger, California

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Seminars-Retreats at the Holy Vajrasana Temple

The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center, Sanger, California. Fresno County is now in the moderate COVID Restriction Zone (ORANGE) and assuming it stays there, I would like to plan for Seminar...

May 23, 2021

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Holy Vajra Pill that flew to the Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California.

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Thirty-seven Factors of Enlightenment

The Sanskrit term bodhi-pakshana or bodhipakshika-dharma or bodhipakkhiya-dhamma literally means those 37 factors or things pertaining to enlightenment. They include the prerequisites for the attainment of enlightenment...

September 6, 2020

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Mini Retreat on “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra”

The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center, Sanger, California. The Governor has reinstated closing places of worship in Fresno County, California. However, we will still offer a few more people the...

July 20, 2020

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