H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum Receives the Honorable 5-star Top Rating from YELP
Free admission for a limited time to visit the world-class art!
LOS ANGELES, CA, March 14, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ — Located in
Covina, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum is the
largest art museum in East Los Angeles County. It was opened in 2014 and
has a collection of over two hundred pieces of art, including western
paintings, Chinese paintings, calligraphy, poems, hand-painted tiles and
marbles, as well as a unique style of sculpture called Yun Sculpture,
which was never seen before in the world, all done by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III who has also independently originated sixteen unique schools of painting.
The art by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is considered world class. For example, the ink-lotus,
was sold for 16.5 million US Dollars in the 2015 Spring Auction in New
York, setting the highest record price in that auction and making it the
price leader among art works by all living artists. The Carp in a Lotus
Pond set a price record for limited replicas with each copy sold for
three hundred seventy-nine thousand and five hundred dollars in the
international art auction market many years ago. In the painting Dragon
Carp Frolic in the Lotus Pond, the fish, lotus, water, flowers and
watergrass all show spirits that are unforgettable, as is the tremendous
force brought out by the brushwork. This painting was appraised for 59
million Dollars ($1,978,500 per square foot) by a reputable and legally
certifiable appraisal company at that time. That painting is open for
replication to public, and someone offered to purchase the copy if it is
replicated successfully from the original painting for very high price.
However, no one has yet been able to successfully replicate it so far.
As can been seen, it has indeed reached such a great level! The offer is
still good today, and anyone who is interested in replicating it is
welcome.
What is the most applaudable is the several super-tridimensional Yun sculptures on display in the museum by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.
Some are grandiose and others are delicate, but all look as though the
energy of the universe is flowing and changing. Yun sculptures are
unique in the world. There are only two museums in the world where they
can be viewed and H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum is
one of them.
As a non-profit organization, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural
and Art Museum does not only display and promote art and culture by
letting public visit for free, but also work to provide charity services
of all kind in the community – including periodic visits and donations
to senior centers, centers for abused women and children, handicap
centers, centers for autistic youths, orphanages and other social
service organizations. It also donates to and support local police and
fire departments. Besides, the museum holds periodic art contests and
displays, provides scholarships to students and encourages youths to
make creations in art and culture. These social services have won the
museum critical acclaims among all levels in the society.
Visitors to the museum not only are surprised by the wonderful beauty
of the art in the museum but also leave with beautiful, blissful and
happy impressions. They unanimously leave great comments and the highest
ratings for the museum on Yelp, and as such Yelp specially presented
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum with its highest
5-star congratulatory award. The meaning it represents is that visitors
all like the museum very much, and the precious treasures of the museum
let people appreciate the beautifulness of art.
For more information, please call (626) 281-6378, or visit hhdcb3cam.org.
The H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum in Los
Angeles County, California, U.S.A. is a completely new cultural and art
museum located in a famous 114-year-old two-story historic building that
has been redesigned and remodeled. The Museum has a rich collection of
beautiful ink-wash paintings, oil paintings, calligraphy, sculptures,
and other forms of world class artistic treasures.
Most works of art displayed at the museum were created by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
and represent a tiny fraction of His overall accomplishments in thirty
main categories. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is the highest leader of
Buddhism in the entire world and is the recipient of the 2010 World Peace Prize Top-Honor Prize.
The H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum is an
independent non-profit organization under IRS 501C(3). H.H. Dorje Chang
Buddha III does not have any shares of ownership or property rights of
the museum, nor does he take any position in the museum or participate
in any operational management or decisions of the museum.
For more information, please call (626)281-6378, or visit hhdcb3cam.org.
(本報訊) 特殊需求青少年藝術作品展 (圖)，6月3日在西柯維納市第三世多杰羌佛文化藝術館（H.H.Dorje
Chang Buddha Ⅲ Cultural and Art Museum）舉行。參加此次藝術展的有來自自閉症藝術中心（The Art of
Autism）和燈塔全日制學校（Beacon Day School）的特殊需求少年和第三世多杰羌佛文化藝術館的工作人員以及出席開幕儀式的西柯維納市議員John King等人。
——Recording my real experience of
attending the Holy Assembly of 100 Sessions for celebrating the nirvana
of Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai
I am so fortunate in my current lifetime. The karmic affinity formed
through many lifetimes and eons enabled me to attend the Holy Assembly
of 100 Sessions held after the nirvana of Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai
who was the world’s top-level holy monk. After the Elder Dharma
Master’s nirvana, Buddhist disciples not only took shifts to guard in
front of the Elder Dharma Master’s flesh body and chant the holy name of
Kuan Yin Bodhisattva without interruption but also held three grand
dharma assemblies every day until the perfect conclusion of the Holy
Assembly of 100 Sessions. I attended my shift of chanting and the three
dharma assemblies every day without missing even one session. To benefit
living beings, I now tell people in the world about the unprecedented
and world-astounding holy feats manifested by Elder Dharma Master Yin
Hai that I witnessed in person.
I am a rinpoche and I know that I must follow the Buddha’s teaching
and cannot speak falsely to deceive living beings. Before all Buddhas
and Bodhisattvas in the ten directions, I give my truthful accounts in
the following:
On December 30, 2016, when concluding the examination in the holy
realm held by the World Buddhism Association Headquarters (WBAH), the
great holy virtuous one leading the dharma Wang Zha Shang Zun
made this prediction publicly, “A holy monk whose nine precept-scars
once emitted light to break the darkness in a closed room, who is the
foremost holy monk in the world, and whom I respect the most will leave
us in January next year. He will create an unprecedented holy
manifestation in the history of Buddhism. This will be a great happy
event and should be joyfully celebrated.”
What I could never imagine is that the tremendously great
accomplishment of this top-level foremost holy monk in the world is so
astonishing to the heaven and human realms and ground-shaking to this
earthly world!
To celebrate the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day, we
held a ceremony to release living beings in captivity and then
respectively listened to a recorded magnificent dharma discourse on
January 15, 2017. Right after the celebration had ended, we received a
notice and immediately went to where Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai was
stationed. We saw that the Elder Dharma Master entered nirvana in a
sitting state of concentration. After chanting sutras, mantras, and the
holy name of Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, we respectfully viewed His holy
appearance. The Elder Dharma Master’s holy face looked thin and aged,
with sunken cheeks, a sparse beard, and wrinkles all over the face
(Please see the Elder Dharma Master’s photo taken at 11 hours after
entering nirvana that can be respectfully requested from WBAH.) Could it
be that this holy monk of the current era has left the world in this
way? No, this was just the beginning of Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai’s
manifestation of His tremendously great and world-unparalleled
accomplishment!
Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai is a disciple of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
and the Chief Teacher of the Tripitaka of sutras, vinayas, and shastras
(commentaries) at WBAH. The Elder Dharma Master lived a private life in
profound cultivation and practice. His conduct demonstrated noble and
pure great compassion and bodhicitta, had nothing to do with fame and
gain, and was not tainted by worldly dusts. His virtue and realization
were immeasurably high and profound. Many abbots of famous temples and
eminent monks of the current time are His disciples. However, because
revered Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai did not touch worldly dusts and
lived a great hidden life in the world, it was difficult for people in
the world to have the affinity to hear His holy name.
In the evening of the same day, Buddhist disciples of the seven types
as well as the professionals working at the Universal Chung Wah Funeral
Home respectfully escorted the holy body of Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai
to the funeral home. At night, several dharma brothers and I who are
rinpoches guarded the holy body while chanting the holy name of “Namo
Kuan Shi Yin Bodhisattva” throughout the night. At 6 o’clock in the
morning of the next day, the Elder Dharma Master’s holy body was handed
over to the funeral home to carry out the process required by law. After
completing the legal procedures, WBAH made the arrangement to hold
grand dharma assemblies in the morning, at noon and in the evening every
day. Additionally, Buddhist disciples guarded in front of the Elder
Dharma Master’s holy body at any time day and night. Each shift was
staffed by quite a few disciples, who chanted the holy name of Kuan Yin
Bodhisattva without a pause.
On the third day after the Elder Dharma Master’s entering nirvana,
when I was in the shift of chanting, I was able to view closely and saw
that the Elder Dharma Master looked pale.
On the fifth night, other dharma brothers and I on the same shift
noticed that, although the Elder Dharma Master still looked thin, His
facial complexion was no longer so pale. The two cheeks of the Elder
Dharma Master revealed a somewhat ruddy air. That was quite different
from the common phenomena seen after one’s death when the facial color
turns worse and the muscles become loosen or dropsy.
The next day, we received a notice from the funeral home. Due to the
limited number of ceremonial halls they have, they could no longer
provide a space for us to continue the Buddhist ceremony there for an
extended period. Therefore, they agreed that we could receive the Elder
Dharma Master’s flesh body back to the temple to continue the unfinished
Buddhist ceremony. Thus, On the ninth day after the Elder Dharma
Master’s nirvana and after the funeral home had provided the legal
documentation, we received the holy body of the revered Elder Monk Yin
Hai back to the temple to rest for worshipping in the Kuan Yin Hall that
had been consecrated earlier by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
in person. Also, a transparent encasement was placed on top of the open
coffin, to prevent the stinky and filthy air dispersed by ordinary
persons from contaminating the holy body.
During the dharma assembly held on that night, many dharma brothers
and sisters and I smelled special fragrant scent. Some saw that light
was emitted in the hall. That was very auspicious and magnificent, as if
being in a holy state of manifested land! There was also something that
I must mention. On that night when I was viewing the holy body
respectfully, I unintentionally found that revered Elder Dharma Master
Yin Hai’s two hands appeared like a sculpture of white jade, dispersing
the sense of texture and lust that only jade stones possess! I thought,
how could the hands of a person have the sense of texture of stone? At
that time, I really could not understand the cause of such peculiar and
rare phenomena. I was only dawned afterwards that it was because the
flesh body of Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai was undergoing a total
transformation inside and out.
On the eleventh night after the Elder Dharma Master‘s nirvana, before
the dharma assembly started, chairperson of the International Buddhism
Sangha Association (IBSA) Dharma Master Long Hui and the abbot of the
True Buddha-Dharma Center and the Pagoda Temple Venerable Xiangge
Qiongwa together announced an astonishingly great news. Earlier, with
the permission from His Holiness the Buddha, Dharma Master Jue Hui,
Dharma Master Long Hui, Venerable Xiangge Qiongwa, Venerable Long Zhou,
Dharma Master Ruo Hui, and Dharma Master Miao Kong used their hands to
touch and press the Holy Venerable One’s flesh body. They found that the
Elder Dharma Master‘s flesh body was as firm and hard as a stone. Even
the typically softest spots on the cheek was extremely firm and hard.
The crowd immediately prostrated to pay respect. They were full of
praises for witnessing the indisputable feat of Elder Dharma Master Yin
Hai’s accomplishment of an incorruptible Vajra body after entering
nirvana.
More than 20 days after the Elder Dharma Master‘s entering nirvana,
all monastics, rinpoches, laypersons, and I at the site formed a line to
respectfully view the holy body one by one. When I got closer to view
at an intimate distance, I could not even believe what I saw before my
eyes. The holy monk in my eyesight truly stunned me greatly!
The Elder Dharma Master’s appearance underwent a vivid and complete
miraculous transformation: the wrinkles that were all over the face at
the time of entering nirvana disappeared; the originally thin bone frame
and concave muscles became moisty, lustrous, and full and filled; the
spiritual expression between eyebrows seemed to emit light; His nose
ridge became straightly higher and wider; the originally sparse beard
grew thick and dense; and even the fingers and fingernails had grown
longer!
Before my eyes, the holy appearance of the Elder Dharma Master became
very perfect and majestic and extremely magnificent. That was
completely another person (See the two contrasting visages taken after
Holy Monk Yin Hai had entered nirvana. The two photos can be
respectfully requested from WBAH.) This fact validated the forecast by
Wang Zha Shang Zun!
This holy feat that was never manifested by any holy one in history
broke the record about nirvana in the history of Buddhism and is so
inconceivable. But, it was right before my eyes! Still, this is the
fact. After the Elder Dharma Master had entered nirvana, His flesh body
was guarded by Buddhist disciples of the seven types day and night. They
staffed in shifts to chant holy names and stayed at the scene all
times. Altogether, there were more than 100 monastics, rinpoches, and
laypersons who witnessed the process of this holy state.
Wang Zha Shang Zun who is at the level of Golden Button Grade 3 said
that Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai is the foremost holy monk in the world
and is respected by Him the most. The Elder Dharma Master’s holy
realization and cultivated power are very great and strong. In His early
years, the Shang Zun practiced the dharma together with Elder Dharma
Master Yin Hai in a cave in a deep mountain. Wang Zha Shang Zun once
accidentally saw that the nine precept-scars on top of the Elder Dharma
Master’s head emitted light rays that illuminated the completely dark
retreat chamber as if it was under open daylight to instantly save
living beings of non-human realms to higher realms. This was a holy feat
that occurred in the early years. In later years, He followed the Elder
Dharma Master to become a disciple of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
and was taught by His Holiness the Buddha in person and was conferred
the highest supreme initiations. That was why, after the revered Elder
Dharma Master Yin Hai had entered nirvana, Wang Zha Shang Zun
specifically wrote a Verse of Praise:
“The merit of Monk Yin Hai shines splendidly the sky and the ground.
The nine holes of His precept-scars once emitted light to illuminate a
dark retreat room. This greatly compassionate and accomplished one
cultivating in seclusion has left His name to the world. Following His
wish, He has returned to His upper-level lotus seat in the World of
Ultimate Bliss. After entering nirvana, the flesh body of this holy
venerable one will undergo a miraculous transformation. A new holy
chapter of nirvana will be written in the history of Buddhism. In the
past He and I practiced together in retreat in a cave in a deep
mountain. Later we both went to the teaching of true Buddha-dharma and
became close to the Buddha. Written by Buddhist Disciple and Humble
Bhiksu Wang Zha Gong Bo, February 15, 2017”
The karmic condition arising from Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai’s
nirvana caused the Holy Assembly of 100 Sessions. The merit generated
from attending the Holy Assembly of 100 Sessions is tremendously great
and far exceeds the merit from attending ordinary dharma assemblies.
Wang Zha Shang Zun announced that those who attended the Holy Assembly
of 100 Sessions perfectly have the qualification to be promoted on one’s
grade and to receive the Initiation of Dharma Affinity with the Yidam.
This is the reward of kindness, virtue, and good fortune that the Holy
Venerable One’s nirvana brought to them.
Since the Elder Dharma Master is a top-level holy monk of last
several thousand years, presenting the offerings of performing
Buddha-dharma with respect to the holy days following the Elder Dharma
Master’s nirvana including chanting sutras, chanting Buddhas’ names,
practicing mantras, dharma practice, dedicating merit and so on will
invoke tremendously great merit to return. Such merit is bestowed from
the blessing given by the Elder Dharma Master who is a tremendously holy
one on the spot!
I am boundlessly grateful to Elder Dharma Master’s blessing on the
spot that bestowed living beings good fortune and beneficial gains in
their resources for cultivation. The holy feat of miraculous great
transformation manifested by Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai after entering
nirvana created a new chapter in the history of Buddhism of this earthly
world and demonstrated unprecedented accomplishment of holy state. Why
is it called creating a new chapter in the history of Buddhism on
nirvana?
First, the flesh body underwent a miraculous great transformation
starting from the tenth day after Elder Dharma Master had entered
nirvana. After that, His visage was magnificently majestic as if having
become a completely different person.
Anyone who knows only a little about the medical science of human
body would know that the blood will dry up after one’s death and the
muscles will lose elasticity and become loose. Additionally, the skin
will turn withered and lifeless, the internal organs will corrupt, and
the body will emit stinky smell of spoiling. The appearance and state of
a dead person can only become more and more miserable and more and more
ugly. It has never been seen that a person looks more adorned and has
better looking after death. Ten days after entering nirvana, Elder
Dharma Master Yin Hai’s facial appearance showed a miraculous great
transformation. A bony and aged face with concave cheeks and covered
with wrinkles totally changed into magnificent appearance that was
moisty and lustrous with full cheeks. The contrasting photos taken
before and after the change look like two different persons!
Secondly, 11 days after entering nirvana, the flesh body of Elder
Dharma Master Yin Hai became as hard as a rock, demonstrating the
accomplishment of an incorruptible Vajra body.
Patriarchs of past generations who accomplished an incorruptible
flesh body generally had to go through a process of sealing the body
inside an upside-down large vase for three years to rid of the fluid
within the body. Then the vase is lifted. Only if the body did not spoil
and the bone frame did not break, can the accomplishment of an
incorruptible flesh body be determined. On the other hand, the situation
of accomplishing an incorruptible Vajra body 11 days after entering
nirvana is never heard about and absolutely unprecedented! Elder Dharma
Master Yin Hai demonstrated His freedom from birth and death as He
entered nirvana in an instant. Then, 11 days after, His entire body was
as hard as a stone, manifesting the tremendously great accomplishment of
realizing an incorruptible whole-body Vajra relic and creating a holy
feat unprecedented in the entire history of Buddhism.
Thirdly, Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai‘s fingers, fingernails, and
beard continued to grow after His nirvana. And there were three new
black strains grown from His beard.
While the Holy Assembly of 100 Sessions was in session, the
professionals from the Universal Chung Wah Funeral Home came to our
worshipping hall to perform service on Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai‘s
body. They were greatly astounded upon seeing the Elder Monk’s holy
body! They said that they had never seen or even heard such a thing.
More than 20 days after entering nirvana, not only the wrinkles on the
face disappeared, but also the bone frame and muscles became full and
filled. The fingers and fingernails also grew longer. One of the
professionals was very surprised and said after viewing Elder Dharma
Master Yin Hai‘s holy appearance carefully and closely, “I know very
clearly that the beard was sparse and completely white before. Now, not
only the beard had grown longer, but also three black strains have grown
from it!” They praised that the Elder Monk’s cultivation and practice
were so great and amazing. They also repeatedly stated that this event
was the most mysterious, the most miraculous, and the most inconceivable
fact that they had experienced since the founding of the funeral home.
The fact created a new record in their professional experience of many
years and also proved that Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai created the first
such holy manifestation in the history of Buddhism.
Wang Zha Shang Zun said that Holy Monk Yin Hai is a greatly
accomplished one in the dharma of “Red Kuan Yin of Magnificent Ocean of
Great Compassion practiced with The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation.”
He is a great holy one who came again from the World of Ultimate Bliss
to fulfill His vow and has now returned to His upper-level lotus seat in
the Pure Land. Though the Holy Monk has left, He established
tremendously great merit and record for Buddhism with His flesh body
after entering nirvana. This is a holy event that has never occurred
before in history.
The miraculous great transformation manifested by the flesh body of
Elder Dharma Master Yin Hai after He had entered nirvana proved that He
is a top-level holy monk in the history of Buddhism. Furthermore, the
source of the dharma that enabled the Elder Dharma Master to attain
great accomplishment from His cultivation and practice is from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.
Through His state of accomplishment realized from learning the
Buddha-dharma from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, the Elder Dharma Master
proved the utmost supreme status of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and let people in the world know that H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III is the source of the true dharma of the Tathagata leading to liberation and accomplishment in the current world.
In this dharma-ending era that is full of chaos and confusion, the
Elder Dharma Master ignited the hope for living beings’ accomplishment
and liberation in this earthly world. This will cause countless living
beings to make their clear and pure vow to pursue liberation.
Demonstrating the source of true Buddha-dharma and bestowing good
fortune to living beings, the merit of the Elder Dharma Master is so
great!
My above-stated personal experience is a true account of real events
without anything untrue. Elder Monk Yin Hai’s accomplishment and holy
feats that shine splendidly through history are indisputable facts.
However, there are still vicious persons and swindlers of demonic nature
who make slandering attacks that are completely baseless. They have the
ulterior motive of cutting off living beings good roots and
opportunities to acquire wisdom. What they do is truly despicable.
Cultivators must not be deceived by them, otherwise they will lose their
affinity with the supreme dharma that is difficult to encounter even in
many eons.
I now take this oath before all Buddhas in the ten directions, “If I
spoke falsely about Elder Monk Yin Hai’s holy feat of miraculous great
transformation that took place in His flesh body after He had entered
nirvana, I will encounter malicious retribution and will not become
accomplished. If what I said is true, may living beings and I acquire
perfect good fortune and wisdom and attain great accomplishment and
great liberation!”
I now make this vow: I dedicate all my merit from perfectly attending
the Holy Assembly of 100 Sessions to all living beings who see and hear
about this article. May they give rise to clear and pure confidence and
learn and practice the true dharma of the Tathagata from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, to increase their good fortune and wisdom, become liberated from transmigration, and forever leave all sufferings!
I am grateful to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III!
I am grateful to the greatly compassionate Kuan Shi Yin Bodhisattva with wonderful enlightenment!
I am grateful to Holy Venerable Master Yin Hai!
I am grateful to Wang Zha Shang Zun!
Buddhist Disciple: Ciren Danba
Written on the day of perfectly concluding the Holy Assembly of 100 Sessions
