Who Is His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III?
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Steven Meyers
Who Is His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III?
Five Key Points about the Buddhist Spiritual Leader
Buddhism
is among the largest religions in this world. The original founder of
Buddhism and the religion’s highest spiritual leader in the universe is
Dorje Chang Buddha. He is worshiped by all major sects and schools of
Buddhism as the earliest primordial Buddha.
Buddhists
belong to a religious belief that understands the universe’s nature of
no-birth and no-annihilation and human beings’ original nature of true
such-ness are one and the same. They believe in the cycle of
transmigration driven by the law of cause and effect. They believe that
after one’s biological death, the spirit or soul will incarnate and be
reborn into a new being. In the case of the primordial Buddha, He has
now incarnated to this world for the third time as His Holiness Dorje
Chang Buddha III. The highest spiritual leader in Buddhism alive today
currently lives in the United States of America.
His
Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III is not one who seeks publicity. Even
when awarded the Presidential Gold Award, the Dr. Martin Luther King
Legacy Award for International Service and Leadership, and many other
prestigious prizes, He did not attend the award ceremonies to receive
the prizes in person. He is well known for loving-kindness and
compassion, and has made a vow of only helping others and never
accepting any offerings from anyone.
However,
His accomplishments and accolades are widely-reported. The following
are five of the most interesting things that you may not have known
about His Holiness the Buddha:
International Buddhism Sangha Association
1.
Buddhism classifies all material and spiritual matters and knowledge in
the universe into five aspects. Complete mastery of these five aspects
is called having realized the Five Vidyas (vidya is a Sanskrit word
meaning brightness). Buddhas and Bodhisattvas must possess the Five
Vidyas. The Five Vidyas include: the Vidya of Casuality, the Vidya of
Healing, the Vidya of Sound, the Vidya of Craftsmanship, and the Vidya
of Inner Realization. Looking through the entire history of Buddhism,
His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III is the first holy one to perfectly
manifest real accomplishments in the Five Vidyas, meeting the highest
standard of Buddhism. For this reason and more, His Holiness Dorje Chang
Buddha III is the one and only individual in history to receive
recognitions and corroborating recognitions from over 60 of the highest present-day dharma kings and regent dharma kings from various Buddhist sects.
2.
His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III was awarded the Top Honor Prize
during the World Peace Prize Ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on June 14,
2011. The World Peace Prize is an initiative to promote world peace and
understanding between different nations, ethnicities, cultures and
religions. His
Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III was recognized for receiving this Top
Honor Prize by the 112th Congress in U.S. Senate Res. 614, commending His Holiness the Buddha for his role in advancing peace, justice and inter-religious collaboration.
3.
His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III has long been an internationally
renowned artist. His paintings are not limited by subject or themes and
are of many types, from water-ink paintings to oil paintings.
Specifically, the subject matters include human figures, animals,
flowers and birds, mountain and water scenes, fish, insects, and so on.
Within the wide range of styles, there is fine brushwork, drawing with
lines and strings, splash-ink, bold freehand brushwork, small freehand
brushwork, and others. Altogether, He created 16 unique painting styles
or schools, representing an unprecedented pioneering achievement in the
history of art. His paintings are on permanent exhibition at the International Art Museum of America in San Francisco,
the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum in Los Angeles
County, and other art museums. His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III’s
paintings are extremely valuable and rare. As early as in 2000, His
artworks were sold for more than two million U.S. dollars each. He
became the artist whose paintings commanded the highest prices compared
to the prices for paintings created by all ancient and modern Chinese
artists. Last March, an ink painting of His was sold at the New York
Spring Auction for $16.5 million, which was the highest price realized
at the 2015 Spring Auction of all artworks by ancient and modern artists
worldwide. He is the world’s first inventor to create a class of
artworks that cannot be duplicated by anyone or with any method — Yun
Sculpture. Only after that, the world now has un-duplicable artworks.
Experts predict that His paintings will become increasingly valuable as
His Holiness plans to focus solely on Buddhist activities.
4. In 2011, the then Mayor of Washington, D.C., Vincent Gray, proclaimed January 19th as “H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day.”
The mayor called on D.C. residents to join him in saluting “His
selfless and exceptional work to spread the word of peace to all those
in His presence.” The Unites States Postal Service also issued a
commemorative cover in celebration of “His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha
III Day.”
5.
His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha is a Fellow of Britain’s Royal Academy
of Arts, making Him the first internationally distinguished artist
appointed to a Fellowship in the Academy’s history of more than 200
years. The title of Fellow was awarded by the Academy’s President,
Phillip King, at a ceremony in the British Embassy in Washington.
Unless
you are an astute follower of Buddhism, you may not have known that His
Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III has been recognized as the third
incarnation of the original Buddha. His accomplishments clearly
transcend religion, healing, art, philosophy, and literature. He
continues to devote His time to a wide scope of cultural, religious, and
various other domains directed at helping people in communities across
the globe. His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III has made the following
vow: “I will bear all of the karmic offenses committed by living beings,
and I will give everyone all of the good karma and merit that I plant.”
His Holiness the Buddha has been executing it exactly as is.
Steven
Meyers received his bachelor’s degree in Chinese language from Brown
University, where he graduated magna cum laude. After graduating, Mr.
Meyers spent a year at the Stanford Center in Taiwan furthering his
study of the Chinese language. Later, he received a Juris Doctor degree
from the University of Michigan and is now an attorney licensed to
practice law in the state of California. He has been providing legal
advice to California non-profit corporations since 1996. His current
focus is translating Buddhist material from Chinese into English.
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