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Photo of Holy Heavenly Lake, Buddhist Town, Hesperia, California.

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HHL Buddhist Town Newsletter, September 2025

Holy Heavenly Lake, Buddhist Town, Hesperia, California. Since mid-August, when Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche began leading English-language Buddhist study sessions at Holy Heavenly Lake, some KAC youth have shown interest and...

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Photo of Practicing "Moving Meditation", Benevolence Temple, Las Vegas, NV.

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Tathagata True Dharma (Ru Lai Zheng Fa) Moving Meditation Retreat for English Speakers in Las Vegas, November 13 & 14, 2025-Updated

Practicing “Moving Meditation”, Benevolence Temple, Las Vegas, NV. Last June the Abbots from the Benevolence and Pure Cultivation Temples in Las Vegas, Venerable Zhengda Jiaozun and Venerable Fa Chao...

October 13, 2025

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Ven. Xu Yun (1840-1959), Accomplished Chinese Chan (Zen) Master and Patriarch

Xu (Hsu) Yun (1840-1959), Patriarch of Wei Yang, Lin Ji, Fa Yan, Cao Dong, and Yu Men Chan Schools. This holy man was a great leader of Chinese Buddhism over a very long and difficult time in China. It appears that he...

October 13, 2025

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Photo of Baoguang Temple, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

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What Professor Huang Huibang (Hui Hui) Learned from Hearing “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra”

Baoguang Temple, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. At the end of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra, Professor Huang Huibang, an elderly disciple of His Holiness also known as...

October 7, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), September 27, 2025

On September 27, 2025 we continued our discussion of DCB26-“How to Realize Prajna.” You may still join that class (See instructions at bottom of this article along with links to previous lessons.) and do the following...

September 28, 2025

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Photo of “Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.

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Lesson Five: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”–Next Class, November 4, 6:00 pm-Revised

“Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. During the fifth ZOOM discussion of LFBS course P10 on September 23, we continued reading from a very early translation of Dorje Pamu’s The Dharma...

September 25, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), September 21, 2025

We held our Hesperia class on September 21 at 19099 Lemon Street, covering Lessons Five & Six on “Three Kinds of Prajna” discussing the first two-language and contemplative-Illumination prajna. The following are...

September 24, 2025

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Photo of Craig's Cabin at Camp de Benneville Pines.

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Group Meditation Retreat Held in San Bernadino Mountains

Craig’s Cabin at Camp de Benneville Pines. The sound of chipmunks chatter, wind, bird song and silence. That was the primary sound I heard from our wonderful recent four-day meditation retreat in the San Bernadino...

September 23, 2025

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Photo of map showing road from Big Bear Lake to Angelus Oaks showing section of 38 that was washed out with mud slide.

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Road to UU Camp washed out after retreat

Road from Big Bear Lake to Angelus Oaks showing section of 38 that was washed out with mud slide. While trying to create a map of how to get to UU Camp de Benneville Pines where we recently enjoyed a meditation retreat...

September 23, 2025

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Photo of View of Protector Chapel taken during Solitary Retreat.

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Second 30-Day Solitary Retreat at Holy Vajrasana Temple-Part II

View of Protector Chapel taken during Solitary Retreat. I believe this article by Anjurshri Alioto should be read by anyone interested in what can happen on an extended solitary retreat and how we can all receive holy...

September 23, 2025

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