Reply to Inquiries No. 20180101
The following are the answers to a few inquiries.
“Is the Namo Great Compassionate Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva Blessing Dharma, which Wangqiu Rinpoche and Dharma Master Zhizhuang practiced, from a proper Buddha Dharma transmission?“
The answer is the following: It has been verified that Wangqiu Rinpoche does not have a proper Buddha Dharma transmission. He practiced a fake Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva Blessing Dharma transmitted from evil. On the other hand, Dharma Master Zhizhuang practiced the Namo Great Compassionate Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Blessing Dharma of proper Buddha Dharma transmission.
Should there be anyone you know who claims to be able to practice Namo Great Compassionate Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Blessing Dharma or has been practicing it for the believers, you should write to inquire at the Headquarters. The Inquiry Center shall provide you with an answer to any question you may have because we must promptly prevent evil masters from collecting money under the pretense of practicing Namo Great Compassionate Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva Blessing Dharma and cheating people. We will answer any question from anyone for the sake of benefiting people. We will protect those who inquire and will not disclose their names, and we will not tell anyone in private.
Someone claims to have stayed at Namo H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s residence when they went to the U.S. That is a cheating lie! The outer court of Namo H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s residence is a Buddhist organization’s house. It is outside the range of the inner court where Namo H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III resides. The outer court has nothing to do with Namo H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s residence. The Buddhist organization in the outer court is organized separately, and it has hosted some rinpoches, dharma masters, and laymen, including those with correct views and knowledge and those with wrong views and understanding. That is very common indeed. But it is not the inner court where His Holiness the Buddha resides. The inner court of His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III does not allow any dharma master, dharma king, or rinpoche who is not qualified to stay in it. To get inside, one must pass through the guards and get approved!
Other than Ruzun, Jiaozun, Shangzun, Yuzun, and the guards, no virtuous one of the Blue Button level has been allowed to stay there. It has never happened even once! Do keep that in mind. Don’t be fooled. No matter what kind of a rinpoche, dharma king, or great dharma master the title is, it is only an uncertain status. The only thing you must see to determine true from false is their level because that is the result they obtained from the Holy Test with their actual knowledge and realization level. It cannot be faked. No one can get the Gold Button without having the realization level of a holy one. If you don’t have the ability, you can’t get the corresponding level from the Holy Test. The person you inquired about only scored in the teens. That person has a valueless title and knows nothing about Buddhism.
The claim that someone has realized the Five Vidyas and is titled a Vajra Dharma King is indeed a childish joke. In this world, no one even gets close to Five Vidyas without having attained Gold Button Level 3. There hasn’t been any exception! You must understand that the Five Vidyas include five major categories and not just one. One cannot pass for Five Vidyas with just one category. Just take the example of the Craftsmanship Vidya (Silpakarmasthanavidya). People like those students at the art institutes can copy and paint the block of colors in a Thanka, a face mask, or a butter sculpture. That is called the workman’s art, not Craftsman Vidya.
The Craftsmanship Vidya entails making and applying various techniques, technologies, architecture, painting, landscape designs, sculptures, etc. One must have tangible results for others to research and study, and these results must surpass the professional experts and be well-known by all. Otherwise, that person has not yet entered the realm of Craftsmanship Vidya and is only adequate in one of the craftsman’s areas of techniques. That person has not yet entered the door of Craftsmanship Vidya. Even if that person has surpassed the professional standard in many areas, they have only accomplished one vidya—the Craftsmanship Vidya. A person must surpass professional standards in every one of the Five Vidyas, without missing even one, to have all Five Vidyas.
Even those holy and virtuous ones of Gold Button Level 1 cannot administer direct inner-tantric initiations. Those with only Blue Buttons are much worse. It is because they have not realized the inner tantric state. Realizing the Inner Realization Vidya (Adhyatmavidya) is more challenging than climbing the sky. A male person must at least be able to present the Three Vajra Pestles to establish inner realization. A female person must at least be able to Make a Dharma Bowl Ring. How could someone claim to have Inner Vidya if they do not have the inner realization powers? For a great holy and virtuous one or a tremendously holy and virtuous one, they can undoubtedly Send a Petition to Bodhisattva. The rinpoche you mentioned with a vain title cannot even muster enough energy to lift the most basic Earth Pestle off the ground, let alone the Dharma Pestle. There are more than a thousand Dharma kings, rinpoches, and high monks in the contemporary world who are ranked above that person. None of those high monks and greatly virtuous people can present the Earth Pestle. This person does not even make the list and cannot present the most basic Earth Pestle or Heaven Pestle. He has not realized even one-thousandth of Inner Realization Vidya.
A person of Blue Button cannot even understand the Causality Vidya (Hetuvidya), let alone be well versed in it. How can that person be said to have any sliver of Causality Vidya? One has not realized Causality Vidya or Sound Vidya (Sabdavidya) if one is not well versed in reasoning, argumentation, poetry, songwriting, singing, melody and lyrics composition, rhyming, principles, and styles of writing, and the logical relations of everything in both fields of the mind and the matter.
Healing Vidya (Cikitsvidya) encompasses mind and matter and takes myriad forms. To be said to have healing vidya, one must surpass professional standards to treat disease and repair health through healing. Vidya means surpassing professional height, not just the average level.
If even one of the five categories is missing, it cannot be called Five Vidyas. Many of the great patriarchs in history who were exaggerated as having Five Vidyas were, in fact, not so and did not have any concrete result to show to the world. The person you mentioned is entirely out of the league. That person can only cheat people by fabricating false words. How can that person be said to have Five Vidyas? That is shamelessly cheating the world.
As to those who cheat people everywhere and pull people away from going to the Dharma listening centers elsewhere with ugly means, they are masters of doing evil deeds and do not deserve to be masters of virtue. They are dirty people. An upstanding and bright master nurtures and benefits people with their own morals and ethics. They receive and embrace new people who have not learned from Buddha instead of pulling existing people away from other Dharma listening centers. If you have a perfect virtue that attracts people, then people will come to learn with you. Only that is the conduct of a good master. Buddhists who listen to the Dharma discourses have the right to follow a good master and study at a temple of their own choice. No master has the right to control others. Suppose someone has been going to a place to listen to and learn the Dharma discourses, but you still ask your disciples to persuade and pull them away. In that case, your conduct is evil, and you do not have morals. Your conduct is that of someone who does not understand Buddha Dharma. The reason is straightforward. It is because they are all listening to the Dharma discourses given by the Buddha.
Any of you masters can only establish Dharma listening centers to let people learn the Dharma discourses. You can only do everything out of compassion and goodwill and can never form gangs. Buddhist cultivators don’t come because they want to learn from you. You don’t have any qualifications worthy of their learning. They come to learn from Buddha and to cultivate themselves. If you disagree, then I will ask you a question. What is the most enormous devil to Buddhist disciples? Which one of you masters can answer a question as simple as that? If you do not understand the meaning and logic of the Dharma, how can you teach or talk randomly?
To examine a master, one only needs to look at the master’s robe wear, which indicates their level and proves the master’s status and level of accomplishment. If one is not a great, virtuous one, then one is not qualified to give impartation on Buddha Dharma. Why does a layman pull those listening to the Dharma discourses in other places and give them wrong teaching that makes no sense? Past public announcements have warned you many times that a person is not qualified to give teachings or impartation without the status of a great, virtuous one. The reason is simple. You will interpret something correctly or incorrectly if you do not understand the sutras and Buddhist teachings. Would those who have already been listening to Dharma discourses and receiving authentic Dharma want you to lead them randomly and incorrectly and attract black karma? Which public announcement says you can pull those listening to Dharma discourses somewhere else away? You know very well how many points you scored in the test on the sutras. If you dare to pretend to be holy, why don’t you let the Headquarters publish your score? Why don’t you let people see what level you are exactly? You wouldn’t dare to request to have your score published, would you? Just that is enough to prove whether you are authentic or fake. Why can’t all of you who bloat yourselves and fabricate false words before Buddhist cultivators take the Holy Test and obtain the Gold Button level with your capabilities? We must say it is because you are not a holy person, and you do not have actual holy capabilities to get to the Gold Button level.
The Headquarters advises you once again to cultivate yourselves and truly learn from Buddha, to be compassionate and kind, to benefit all the people, and to lead them to listen to the Dharma discourses by the Buddha. Don’t form gangs and create trouble. Don’t make evil, incorrect views and understanding; don’t talk randomly and mislead or hurt people.
Inquiry Center, World Buddhism Association Headquarters
September 10, 2018
(Eric Huang translated this announcement from Chinese to English. The translation was last edited on 2024-6-4.)