Of course not. None of us know when we will leave this world and how much time we have. He need to learn the basic principles of Buddhism that Shakyamuni Buddha taught concerning the nature of reality and what we must...
Buddhist define living beings as those creatures, large and small, human and non-human, who have consciousness. As noted in an earlier article, we do not consider larger living beings or humans to be more important than...
No. Living beings have very different karma. Some will respond to one kind of dharma, some another. A person must have the karmic affinity to a dharma to be able to successfully practice that dharma. This is why...
Although different Buddhist traditions hold different views on the matter, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III has been very clear that it is an erroneous view to believe that monastics may eat meat. Laymen and laywomen may eat...
The term Buddha-Dharma is used in different ways in different contexts. It can mean our actual practice, the results and manifestations from that practice, what the Buddhas taught, or as Dorje PaMu once described it as...
I have already mentioned important announcements from the World Buddhism Association Headquarters given during the first 35 days of the Chinese lunar calendar in 2018 concerning receiving true inner-tantric initiations...
Holy Beings showed their approval when H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III first gave the discourse “What Is Cultivation?” that was published in both English and Chinese as The Dharma of Cultivation Transmitted by H...
It is useful to remember that Shakyamuni lived to be almost 80 and preached the dharma for 49 years to all kinds and levels of living beings. It is said the Buddha offered 84,000 dharma gates to counter the 84,000...
In 2011 the site of the Xuanfa Institute was recognized as the Fourth Vajra Throne in the world. A vajra throne or vajrasana (Sanskrit) is a place where either a very holy being resides or was enlightened or a holy...