Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform

Illustrations – Thus Have I Seen Reposted from Thus Have I Seen by Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche p.7-9 Fig. 1: H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III . . . .

I want this book to be first, a description of what I have seen and heard while following my Buddha Master, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III (FIGURE 1)…

It is the year 2020, the time of Covid-19, and I am currently sheltered-in-place at the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center in the midst of fruit and nut trees, vineyards, and subdivisions creeping out from Fresno and at the beginning of the foothills, within sight of the magnificent snow-capped Sierras…

How did I become a disciple of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and recognized as a reincarnated rinpoche? It took a lot of searching. Even as a young girl, growing up on White Eyes Creek in northeastern Muskingum County Ohio, I remember a thirst for understanding the nature of things and frustration over the things I could not understand—and there were many things I did not understand…

Sometime during 2004 or 2005, I came up with the idea of visiting every state in the union and introducing my Buddha Master, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III to the people there…

Let us start by looking at just who Dorje Chang Buddha is. In the beginning of beginningless time, there was only the primordial Adharma Buddha or Dharmakaya Buddha. Everything was boundless and everything was silent…

I again broached the subject of making a tour of the USA to introduce the Buddha to the American people, only this time it would be with the big blue treasure book H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III (FIGURE 21)…

In January 2009, before the Big Blue Book Tour was over, I needed to relocate to the Fresno area to what had been the Sanger Mission, the precursor to what became Hua Zang Si in San Francisco…

The pill that I had received in 2003 that then flew away manifested at the Xuanfa Institute. The vajra pill was to merge with these Vajra Poles to become one and empower the site as the first Vajra Throne in the West and the fourth one in the world…

After the temple was designated a Vajra Throne, things changed. We had to remodel the temple to make it a suitable place for such an honor. First, the temple was renamed as the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center…

Over the years we developed different types of retreats at the temple. They started out to be primarily work and Dharma listening retreats as we prepared to modestly develop the temple facilities…

Early in 2014 the Buddha Master showed me two photos of Himself, one as a beautiful young man and the other as a gnarled, wrinkled, very old man (FIGURE 69). I had heard about him doing a major transformation but had not seen any evidence of this feat…

In case any proof was needed of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s accomplishments in the Craftsmanship Vidya, you could look at the art market’s response to His work. The paintings of the Buddha Master have been selling for millions of dollars for decades…

You may have seen that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III was in trouble with the law in China and had fled to America to escape prosecution. It is true that at one point, INTERPOL had issued a warrant for His arrest…

I have been often asked what the most excellent and great holy Wangzha Shangzun is like. I have had the good fortune to meet him several times in different forms and situations. In one case I did not know who he was until much later…

In 2014, the World Buddhist Association Headquarters (WBAH) first began a program to test the qualification of venerable ones, Dharma kings, rinpoches, monastics, masters of Dharma listening, Dharma masters, laypeople, and others…

I want to give a little background on the Dharma of Empowerment by Kuan Yin’s Great Compassion. There are two stages to this great Dharma—the generation stage and the perfection stage. The generation stage only has about a 3% manifestation and can be learned successfully immediately, regardless of whether the learner is a good person or a bad person…

We had been offering up to 30-day private retreats at the temple and in March 2018 I decided I needed to take one myself. It had taken me over a month to recover from my last Asian trip and I wanted to reflect on what I was doing wrong…

There were several extraordinary Dharma assemblies held in Pasadena that I did attend after my retreat, even though it was becoming increasingly difficult for me to even drive to southern California…

I do want to try to express what I have learned about compassion from my Master, as I consider it the most important Dharma I have received. Like karma, it is complicated and not always what you might think it is…

I have finally come to realize that you must have an understanding of the Five Vidyas to begin to understand what the Buddha Master is teaching us. However, as of yet, very few of the discourses given by the Buddha Master on the Five Vidyas have been recorded or released for publication in English…

In His book Learning from Buddha, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III provides the definitive definition of “Buddha-Dharma.” He gives a one-sentence summary stating that “In Buddhism, the perfect practice of the preliminary practice, main practice, and concluding practice is called Buddha Dharma.”…

In October 2019 a Chinese documentary was made about Buddhism in general and the role of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and His teachings in society, and the impact they are having and will continue to have on society…

In this book, I tried to convey my personal experiences on tour, at the temple and beyond, and to describe my own awakening through the various teachings, empowerments, and initiations I was most fortunate to receive. That was intended to show what is possible. But how does that help you, the reader?…

This amazing book contains the documentation of who H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is, how we know that to be true, and evidence of His mastery of the Five Vidyas. It also includes many important teachings, but only one “What Is Cultivation?” is translated into English…

My thanks to the core group who traveled with us in the van or in their own cars on the Dharma Propagation Tour. This included the lamas, Puti Duxi and Hongxi Fazang from Macang Monastery who have returned to lay life, the nun Zhengxiang Shi who is now at the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena; and lay disciple Shannon Pattillo who handled so much of the logistics for the trip…

Most of the following is taken from the curriculum of the Xuanfa Five Vidyas Institute (XFVU) and reflects the major categories of classes that were offered by the XFVU. It includes the actual words of the Buddhas and also the classic commentaries, treatises, or shastras on those words…

In March 2013 H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III transmitted the Great Dharma of Zen and gave a discourse on the nature of zen and how it should be practiced. This is an English translation of that dharma discourse…

These charts represent my understanding of how one progresses on the path to Buddhahood and the belief that all sentient beings are on such a path, even if that is not yet their conscious goal…

To the magnificent Buddha Vajradhara whose brilliance outshines the suns of a billion galaxies and whose wisdom surpasses all holy and ordinary beings; I humbly bow and offer my devotion…

Exoteric, Shingon, Geluk, Jonang, Sakya, Nyingma, Kagyu…

In Learning from Buddha, the Buddha Master told us that we should reflect on what we had learned from the Buddha when we first woke up every morning, mid-day, and before we went to bed to see just how well our three karmas of thinking, speaking, and acting had corresponded with those of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas…