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

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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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Important New Announcements from the WBAH

Group Study Session-Class at the Xuanfa Dharma Center at Hesperia. Recently, the World Buddhism Association Headquarters (WBAH) issued two public announcements on “The Correct Way of Holding Group Study Sessions...

July 14, 2020

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Open Mike, Register for July 11, 2020 Session, 9-11 am

After the internet crashing, I did not think we would have an Open Mike again this week, but it came back in time to proceed and resulted in an excellent session, as they usually are. For those of you who were not there...

July 4, 2020

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Studying the sutra while sheltering-in-place.

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Mini-Retreat at Temple

Last weekend we held a mini-retreat with three socially distanced guests for an intensive study of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. We will try and do this once a month to enable as many as possible...

June 30, 2020

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Photo of mummy of Chan (Zen) Sixth Patriarch Huineng (638-713) kept in Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan (northern Guangdong) China.

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The Great Dharma of Zen

Photo of mummy of Chan (Zen) Sixth Patriarch Huineng (638-713) kept in Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan (northern Guangdong) China. Introduction: We are about to study the great dharma of zen practice that H.H. Dorje...

May 6, 2020

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Serving and receiving Oryoki lunch at retreat.

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Seven-Day Retreat Held at Holy Vajrasana Temple

Students came from North Carolina, California, and Arizona to hear and read from a preliminary translation of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. They also were able to hear a newly released discourse...

February 15, 2020

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Dharma Class at Hesperia Sunday, February 2, 2020

We will start Sunday’s class at 10:00 am at 10161 Choiceana Avenue, Hesperia, California with a few chants and a short meditation. Then we will listen to a rare recorded discourse in both Chinese and English by H...

January 30, 2020

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III delivering Dharma Discourse on ”The Intrinsically Existing Truth of No Arising and No Ceasing in the Universe and in Human Lives Realized by the Buddha Was Not Created by the Buddha” at the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena, California.

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Sunday Class at Temple on Newly Released Discourse by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III

Last Sunday we listened first to the Buddha Master expound His discourse and then to an English translation of what the Buddha Master said. It is the same discourse that you can see Him giving in the video program...

January 30, 2020

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February Meditation Retreat with Details about Classes on Heart Sutra

This retreat on His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III’s sutra Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra will start at the beginning and hopefully cover the first 120 pages that are devoted to...

January 30, 2020

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Buddha Hall at The Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center, Sanger, California.

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Schedule of English & Spanish Buddhist Classes and Retreats for 2020

The following represents the schedule for English and Spanish dharma classes for 2020. Please check calendar before you come as dates may change and new ones may be added. Spanish translators are only confirmed for the...

January 20, 2020

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