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Amitabha, the Seasoned Farmer

Posted on August 8, 2026August 8, 2026by Teahouse

Reciting the Buddha’s name, without fail, leads to Buddhahood: that is the Buddha’s harvest; what we reap, we sow

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  • Rebecca Wong

The Empress’s Kangyur: Was the Tibetan Dragon Canon More a Private Devotion than a Political Statement?

Posted on August 5, 2026August 6, 2026by Teahouse

A closer material analysis of an imperial Kanjur at Taipei’s National Palace Museum puts into doubt the usual narratives about its purpose

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  • Rebecca Wong

The Shabala King Garuda’s Fire: Can an Ancient Kalachakra Practice Heal the Modern Shingles Epidemic?

Posted on August 4, 2026August 4, 2026by Teahouse

How a guardian deity of the Kalachakra tradition might provide tantric solutions to a very modern health issue

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  • Rebecca Wong

Call of the Vajra: An Invitation to the Third Guru Rinpoche Monlam at Udayagiri

Posted on August 3, 2026August 3, 2026by Teahouse

The Light of Buddhadharma International Foundation’s 3rd Guru Padmasambhava Monlam will take place from 28 December 2026 to 5 January 2027

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All Beings Have Once Been Our Parents

Posted on August 2, 2026August 2, 2026by Teahouse

Master Huijing reflects on how every sentient being has, at some point, been our parent or our sibling, a cherished family member

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Destiny Transformed by Amitabha Buddha

Posted on July 27, 2026July 27, 2026by Teahouse

A poem by Master Huijing celebrates how the direction of our finite life can be changed through simple faith in a Buddha’s promise

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Past Causes + Present Conditions = Karmic Results

Posted on July 24, 2026July 24, 2026by Teahouse

Master Hujing discusses causes and conditions and how causality explains Buddha-invocation and rebirth in the Pure Land

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FIFA and Freedom Fighting: A Toxic Combination

Posted on July 21, 2026July 21, 2026by Teahouse

Argentina may have lost the match, but it does not mean that democracy has won the war, says James Gordon Reid Haveloch-Jones

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Transforming Ourselves Through the Buddha Dharma

Posted on July 20, 2026July 20, 2026by Teahouse

Master Zhisui explains how sincere practice of the Dharma can change our suffering to genuine peace and lasting happiness

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  • Rebecca Wong

The Buddha’s First Turning of the Wheel

Posted on July 16, 2026July 16, 2026by Teahouse

How the Buddha’s First Turning of the Wheel – embodied by the great stupa and the deer flocks at Sarnath – transformed my practice

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