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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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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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Memorial Day Retreat

Oryoki breakast during Memorial Day Retreat 2021. The retreat was held under COVID rules requiring masks except for meals and social distancing, but we managed to cover all of Part One which just explained each word in...

May 25, 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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My Book has arrived

Details of “Jewels” that appeared on Grass Mandala. My publisher just told me I would soon receive some copies of Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform. I did publish some...

April 5, 2021

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Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center. The Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center has a new video featuring an original song by its Co-Founder, Ven. Pannavati called “Sanctuary” that gives a very nice insight to...

March 17, 2021

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Seminar on Correct Way to Listen to Dharma Discourses, The Holy Vajrasana Temple, July 1-4, 2016.

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The Seven-Dharmas System of Listening to Dharma Discourses: Background

I revisited this article in preparing for the application of this system to holding a debate about how the “128 Views” from the SAUMOL would apply to the book The Cat Who Went to Heaven. With a few edits, I...

March 15, 2021

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Private Class on the SAUMOL in the Abbot's Study, Holy Vajrasana Temple

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Classes at the Temple Again

Private Class on the SAUMOL in the Abbot’s Study, Holy Vajrasana Temple. We are a little bit back in business. This weekend we had two students come to study the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation...

January 24, 2021

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Life at the Holy Vajrasana Temple in the Time of COVID-19

We are continuing to shelter-in-place in California. It is possible for individuals to come and read the preliminary translations we have on kindle of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra or the Supreme...

May 10, 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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