Answer 35 On Day 35 of the Lunar year
Masters who are still in the range of the Blue Button levels and have yet reached the Gold Button levels can indeed teach people, but you must examine them with the 128 Evil and Erroneous Views. Other than the Great Holy Virtuous Gurus that are Gold Button Level 3 or above, even the Holy Virtuous ones at Gold Button Levels 1 and 2 need to be examined against the 128 Evil and Erroneous Views…
Answer 34 On Day 34 of the Lunar year
You said that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is in Tibetan esoteric Buddhism. That is an erroneous understanding. You have so little knowledge about the concept of Buddha. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is a Buddha, not a founding patriarch of a particular denomination or school in the sense of lineages from patriarchs…
Answer 33 On Day 33 of the Lunar year
The reason why the World Buddhism Association Headquarters implemented the test system is to help Buddhists find masters and friends who genuinely have virtue and ethics so that they can avoid taking on the wrong paths…
Answer 32 On Day 32 of the Lunar year
There are many types of Buddha Halls. One that is established and consecrated with a respectful heart is an ordinary Buddha Hall and is not a Buddha Hall of True Buddha Dharma that meets the Dharma stipulations on establishing a Buddha Hall…
Answer 31 On Day 31 of the Lunar year
Regarding Presenting a Petition to a Bodhisattva, the first thing is to see the subject of the petition. For example, is it about establishing an Inner-tantric Mandala? Is it about the holy selection of a particular Dharma? Or is it about determining whether a specific mantra or discourse is upright or evil?…
Answer 30 On Day 30 of the Lunar year
Why does the Dharma stipulate that the Equal Enlightenment and Marvelous Enlightenment Bodhisattvas must perform Inner-tantric Initiations in an Inner-tantric Mandala that meets the two significant stipulations of the Dharma?…
Answer 29 On Day 29 of the Lunar year
Since you know that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have great loving-kindness and great compassion, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, of course, will be responsible for the practice of cultivation and Dharma. Buddhas and Bodhisattvas classify both Buddha Dharma and cultivation into two types: holy and mundane…
Answer 28 On Day 28 of the Lunar year
For a holy and virtuous one to receive a sacred title, he or she must pass the written test on Sutra, Vinaya, and Sastra and the additional Holy Test on the level of his or her realization power and holy accomplishment. Only then can they be qualified as a sacred being and receive the Gold Button or Lotus Button levels, not the Blue Button levels…
Answer 27 On Day 27 of the Lunar year
The study of the teachings in the sutras and the commentaries is indeed critical. A master who teaches people must dive deeply into the sutras and truly understand them. One will be clueless about Buddhism if one does not understand the teachings in the sutras and commentaries…
Answer 26 On Day 26 of the Lunar year
You asked whether the Inner-tantric Mandalas established by some people, including the dharma kings, the venerable ones, and the dharma masters, are real or not. First, we will not satisfy your wish to list their dharma titles publicly. Asking that question already belongs to ignorance and shows that you did not read the announcements…
Answer 25 On Day 25 of the Lunar year
The “Fine Horse Walking in Empty Space Dharma” (良馬空行法) is a Dharma in Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism and is at the initial stage of ascending into the sky and walking on clouds. Although one who can practice this Dharma is a Ruzun with the word “holy” in the title, such a person is unable to establish an Inner-tantric Mandala…
Answer 24 On Day 24 of the Lunar year
A Tremendously Holy and Virtuous One who can establish a mandala through a stone slab has indeed already possessed the power of “Presenting a Petition to a Bodhisattva” and attained the accomplishment of “Knowing in Advance and Foretelling the Future.” He or she is a Tremendously Holy Guru, reincarnated from a non-retrograde great Mahasattva with a one-hundred-percent certainty…
Answer 23 On Day 23 of the Lunar year
Regarding “Buddha Bestowing Amrit,” it has nothing to do with whether that so-and-so great rinpoche could bestow Amrit as you asked. You are too ignorant and pitiable. That so-called great rinpoche is not even Gold Button Level 1. Even a Shangzun of Gold Button Level 3 or a Yuzun of Gold Button Level 4 cannot invoke Buddha to bestow Amrit…
Answer 22 On Day 22 of the Lunar year
The wisp of white light between the eyebrows, one of the thirty-two significant elegant marks of a Buddha, is not what anyone can see in its entirety or even see it at all. Those who do not possess the karmic condition, those who speak falsely to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, those who are insincere and have told lies to a Buddha, those who are incredibly selfish, those who have violated solemn precepts, those who are not kind in mind, those who are demons, evil ghosts, or monsters, those who do not sincerely learn from Buddha to cultivate oneself, and those who lack the affinity or do not possess the good fortune to admire the Buddha respectfully cannot see some of the thirty-two significant elegant marks of the Buddha…
Answer 21 On Day 21 of the Lunar year
Many people indeed vowed in writing to present offerings to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. But whether those are massive amounts from very wealthy people or offerings from ordinary people, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III has never accepted even a cent, nor will he ever take anything…
Answer 20 On Day 20 of the Lunar year
Although a Vajra Pill is very small, in the interior of the pill, there is a Vajra mandala. Moreover, the Yidam of the Inner-tantric Initiation will enter this mandala to manifest miraculous transformations. There are two types of Vajra Pills based on their external appearance…
Answer 19 On Day 19 of the Lunar year
Transmitting a Borrowed Inner-tantric Initiation requires at least three disciples receiving the Initiation. The Vajra rope used in the Dharma transmission of the Borrowed Inner-tantric Initiation will be cut into sections according to the number of people and distributed to them…
Answer 18 On Day 18 of the Lunar year
One who has the accomplishment of Gold Button Levels 1 or 2 is still at the risk of receding from the attained accomplishment if not cultivating oneself earnestly. For example, Dharma King Gar Tongstan once retreated from the status of Jiaozun of Gold Button Level 2 to a Ruzun. This year, he made his own decision to choose H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III as the Yidam of his dharma practice…
Answer 17 On Day 17 of the Lunar year
Great magicians make magic using lighting, laser, chemistry, and so on. They can even build an earthquake house where people would not be able to keep balance while standing. They can let an airplane or automobile vanish or appear…
Answer 16 On Day 16 of the Lunar year
Why would people with the titles of master and Dharma king oppose the stipulations of the Dharma regarding the inner-tantric mandala? That is because they are false holy ones. Masters with the claims of dharma king and rinpoche in the world are used to saying that they can perform inner-tantric initiations and calling what an inner-tantric mandala versus an outer-tantric mandala is…