Early this year, I found that my strength was leaving my body. I had tried various alternative medical treatments, but it seemed that I was loosing energy every day. When a friend gave me a thermometer, I started taking my temperature and found that my body temperature was constantly at around 95 degrees—way below normal.… Read More »
Monastics and lay practitioners gathered at Hua Zang Si in San Francisco to chant mantras and the Amitabha Sutra in Tibetan and Chinese and to make offerings. They dedicated the merit from these offerings and requested blessings for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. In the afternoon an auction and street fair were held outside the… Read More »
A special Dharma Assembly was held at the Southern California Chapter of the United International World Buddhism Association Headquarters (UIWBAH) in Monterey Park, California to practice the Dharma for those who perished and are suffering as a result of Hurricane Katrina. A similar ceremony was held at Hua Zang Si (temple) in San Francisco. At… Read More »
The statue of Dharma Protector Guan Yu was installed at Hua Zang Si on Saturday, July 30, 2005. Chief Rinpoche and head of the temple, Akou Lamo Rinpoche conducted the ceremony and lead the Dharma Assembly outdoors to the pavilion where the Dharma Protector was to reside. The Abbess of the temple, Long Hui Fa… Read More »
As students performed skits and other shows in honor of H.H.Wan Ko Yisinubu’s birthday, the beautiful jacaranda tree over the veranda began raining nectar. Hanging in this tree was a very large thangka of the thousand-armed Kuan Yin Bodhisattva that had been specially requested from the Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet to celebrate His Holiness’s birthday. Just… Read More »
One of H.H. Wan Ko Yeshe Norbu’s western disciples, Glen Pier, asked His Holiness if there was anything he could do to help his dying mother make her transition. His Holiness told him not to worry. His Holiness would personally arrange for an angel to take her to heaven or a Bodhisattva to take her to the… Read More »
German Lutheran church now serves growing Asian community Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer Inside an old German Lutheran church in San Francisco, Chinese nuns sit on the glossy wooden floors, wearing headphones, listening to Buddhist mantras on portable CD players. Gone are the pews and the church piano, but the organ pipes and… Read More »
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III performed a special ceremony to raise the level of consciousness of Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche’s non-Buddhist parents to higher realms. She was able to see the Dharma Protecting Deities come to perform this rite. The true Buddha-dharma is very powerful and magnificent! She had no words to express her gratitude to her Buddha Master for… Read More »
Hua Zang Si, a Buddhist temple situated near the downtown of San Francisco (Mission District), specially selected December 26, 2004, the holy birthday of Amitabha Buddha, to perform a grand ceremony marking the opening of the temple. Since the temple furthers the great vows of the Buddhas, it received the empowerment of the Buddhas. Buddhists… Read More »
Shortly after the Ultimate (Highest) Bathing the Buddha Dharma Assembly was held in May, a particular type of flower called “Auspicious Grass of the Four Jewels ” started growing directly in front of where the actual ceremony took place. The flowers had four distinct very thin parts. They grew in a particular pattern and formed… Read More »