Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: July 2026

Friday, July 31, 2026

Avalokitesvara Enlightenment Day (8/1)

This weekend (either Saturday or Sunday), Hsi Lai Temple will be conducting a noontime offering to the great Kwan Yin Pusa (Guanyin Bodhisattva), who began as the male deva Avalokita (Avalokitesvara).

It is unknown which day it will be because it is officially posted as "Sunday, 8/1, at 10:00 am, but Sunday is 8/2, Aug. 2, 2026. So maybe it starts on Saturday at 10 and culminates with noontime offerings at 12 the next day? Call the temple for proper details.

Hsi Lai (Coming West) Temple
3456 Glenmark Drive (near 60 Fwy)
Hacienda Heights, LA, CA 91745
info@ibps.org, (626) 961-9697

It will be located in the Hsi Lai Temple main shrine at the top of the steps near the giant incense cauldron that looks like the Liberty Bell. Fortunately, for the Fo Guang Shan (lit. "Buddha's* Light Mountain") Movement Buddhists of the world and others, there will be a Livestream (live from Los Angeles):

Buddha's Light Mountain

Fo Guang Shan (FGS, Chinese 佛光山, Pinyin Fó guāng shān, lit. "Buddha's Light Mountain") is an international Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist organization and monastic order. It is based in Taiwan and practices Humanistic Buddhism, whose roots are traced to the Linji School of Chan Buddhism.

The headquarters, Fo Guang Shan Monastery, is located in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, Buddhist Taiwan, and is the largest Buddhist monastery in the island country .

[Of course, mainland China lays claim to Taiwan as an integral part of the PRC (People's Republic of China) just as it insists that Bon/Vajrayana Buddhist Tibet and similarly oppressed Muslim Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the northwest are part and parcel of the nominally communist actively capitalist post-kingdom].

The organization is also one of the largest charity organizations in Taiwan. Its counterpart for laypeople is known as the Buddha's Light International Association. Founded in 1967 by Hsing Yun, the order promotes Humanistic Buddhism and is known for its efforts in the modernization of Chinese Buddhism.

The modernist order is famous for its use of technology, and its temples are often furnished with the latest equipment [1, 2]. Hsing Yun's stated position for Fo Guang Shan is that it is an "amalgam of all Eight Schools of Chinese Buddhism." More

(*Sadly, while it sounds like one big, united Buddhist family, in fact the Buddha in the title refers to the "Cosmic Buddha" Amitabha, as in Amitofu, not the historical one from Earth, who is lovingly called the Sage of Scythian Shakya/Saka Clan, Shakyamuni, Siddhartha Gautama)
Hsi Lai Temple, Los Angeles; CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit FGS

War porn Israeli propaganda for USA ✡️

Paid "influencers" wanted. IDF pays

Possible millionaire Savanna Cannon, 22, is a [paid Zionist influencer working for Israeli propagandists practicing hasbara on the American public in a cynical ploy to at least turn people into Islamophobes if Israeli is losing support for Semitic war crimes, crimes against humanity, extermination, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and full blown genocide by secular and Ashkenazi Jews bent on psyops and propaganda to win multiple wars in the building of an empire called "Greater Israel" or Eretz Yisrael in the Middle East.]

Blood libel B+ w/o Tay-Sachs is delicious!

Savanna Cannon is a TikTok star, Instagram star, and fitness guru. She created a large following across social media platforms by sharing sexy fitness, dancing, and lip-syncing content. [Is she on OnlyFans? Does she do hardcore porn yet?] What is her estimated net worth [from collecting per-post propaganda pieces as hasbara and PR for Zionism]? Who are her parents [and are they intel, deep state, or part of the military industrial complex]? More (gluwee.com)

I say what I get paid to say by the operatives who pay me...and I'm sexy AF!

I have alotta political opinions. I'm not just some bimbo making buku bucks from Israel.

Even rabid right-winger Alex Jones wants Traitor Trump impeached now

Bloodlust and body count from corrupt, dead, Israel First Lindsey Graham

(Adam Mockler) Americans now hate Trump, who gets booed viciously

DNA reveals truth about Native Americans

Chief Quanah Parker. Kwahadi

(BE) The Comanche (Shoshone) were never what we were taught -- ancient DNA evidence finally reveals

The Comanche (/kəˈmæntʃi/) or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ("the people" [3]), are an Indigenous or Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States of America.

Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma [4].

The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family. Originally, it was a Shoshoni dialect, it is thought, but it diverged and became a separate language [5].

Comancheria (Comanche Nation, 1770-1850)

Comanche meeting U.S. dragoons, 1834

The Comanche were allegedly once part of the Shoshone people of the Great Basin [6]. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Spanish and later Mexican colonists called the Comanche domain Comanchería. Some historians call it an empire.

The Comanche lived in present-day northwestern Texas and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and western Oklahoma, where they practiced a nomadic horse culture... More

At War with Satan: USA-Israel attacks Iran

(Venom) "At War with Satan" gets good at Minute 18:47

I give up! Bibi talked me into it. Greenland's next

Trump and Bibi's USA-Israel (aka Satan, the "Adversary") have launched full-blown internationally illegal attack on Iran. This unsanctioned American war, provoked by and for the benefit of Zionist-CIA funded Israel, is intended to incense the passions of Muslims around the world.

If all goes as planned, it will draw other actors in to use them as pretexts for further escalation of U.S. Pentagon aggression and the profit of many private (military-industrial complex) war profiteering corporations.

See, you idiot, destroy Iran for us then...

Trump's aggression is not without a capitalist motive. For it also serves as a kind of ammo dumping (expending assets) to get rid of aging stockpiles of military hardware to justify the American War Machine's increased spending on new equipment, AI killbots, and secret weapons with the dual-use purpose of using on the domestic population if it tries to stop the military through dissident action, protests, or peaceful demonstrating.

Jewish Voice for Peace (nkusa.com)

If only Trump were a "man of God," as his American Protestant Evangelical boosters (most of them Christian Zionists) claim. Then he would stand up to Bibi Netanyahu (aka American Ben Milekowsky), who recently paid his seventh public visit to America's beloved dictator in the White House to tell Trump what to do and to advocate for more and more attacks on Iran.

Who made Trump? And why is he at war?

If only Jesus (Saint Issa, the Prophet Isa) would step in and defend Palestine, driving back the war makers and making room for peace, justice, and reconciliation. Where is the great genocidal Jehovah (Yahweh, "God of the Bible")? Cheering it on? Rooting for the Zionist ethnostate? It's as if Muse the band knew what it was talking about when it sang, "Come ride with me, through the veins of history/I'll show you a God, who falls asleep on the job" ("Knights of Cydonia").

Truth about Black Irish: Ireland's DNA

(Evo Inception) The truth about the Black Irish: Ireland's hidden DNA

celticbuddhism.org

U Dhammaloka (Burmese ဦးဓမ္မလောက) lived from 1856–1914. He was an Irish-born migrant worker [1] who became a Theravada Buddhist monk.

He was a strong critic of Christian missionaries and a temperance campaigner who took an active role in the Asian Buddhist revival around the turn of the 20th century.

Venerable Dhammaloka (because "U," pronounced ooh, is not a name or initial but a Burmese honorific) was ordained in Burma prior to 1900, making him the earliest attested Western Buddhist monk in modern times.

He was a celebrity preacher, vigorous polemicist, and prolific editor in Burma and Singapore between 1900 and his conviction for sedition and appeal in 1910–1911.

Drawing on Western atheist (freethinking) writings, he publicly challenged the role of Christian missionaries and resisted attempts by the colonial government to charge him for sedition. More

Diary of a Buddhist Yogi: Vipassana Meditation Retreat (eBook by Dhammaloka Kiriya)
Evo Inception; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

How the Creator God looks: Book of Enoch

(TheBlackParchment) The Book of Enoch finally exposed the Creator God -- and what this God actually looks like

God: An Anatomy

An astonishing and revelatory history that represents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers—with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous.

"[A] rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh’s body [the Demiurge, Gnostic Yaldabaoth], from top to bottom (yes, that too) and from inside out... Ms. Stavrakopoulou has almost too much fun.” — The Economist

Dr. Fran: Bible, atheism, and God's wife Asherah
Meet the real God of the Christian-Jewish Bible
Does Buddhism have a "creator god"? Yes: Maha Brahma (but he, like all the other divinities and deities, brahmas and devas are not really "Gods" in the ultimate sense, just in a temporary Western Greco-Roman sense, long-lived but temporary light beings who imagine themselves eternal, all powerful, or all knowing when they are no such thing)

(Basically Primitive) Why did ancient humans start believing in God(s)?

Don't laugh at me! I'm your Lord and Master!!

I'm no ET. I'm Baal. Worship me!

The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of Christ.

The Ethiopian Bible: Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon

The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, or poetic. But, in this revelatory study, Francesca Stavrakopoulou presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks [in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve] and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male.

Could there be a God, a real God?

(BTC) Atheist explains most convincing argument for God | Alex O'Connor

The Jewish God El

Here is a portrait—arrived at through the author's close examination of and research into the Bible—of a god in ancient myths and rituals who was a product of a particular society, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world.

From head to toe—and every part of the body in between [including the penis]—this is a god of stunning surprise and complexity, one we have never encountered before. More: God: An Anatomy (by Francesca Stavrakopoulou)

The Anatomy of the Body of God (Frater Achad)

Religion in USA, Bible Belt, Deep South

(Versed) Why the US South is insanely religious

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Tibetan nun dared to teach yoga (Chöd)

Machig Labdrön (Tibetan མ་གཅིག་ལབ་སྒྲོན་, sometimes referred to as ཨ་སྒྲོན་ཆོས་སྒྲོན or Ahdrön Chödron་) [1], the "Singular Mother Torch from Lab" (1055–1149) [2].

She was a Tibetan Buddhist nun (ani) believed to be a reincarnation of Yeshe Tsogyal.

Machig Labdrön was the renowned 11th-century Tibetan tantric Buddhist master and yogini who originated several Tibetan lineages of the Vajrayana practice of Chöd (Tibetan གཅོད་).

Buddhist leader Chökyi Drönma
Nyingma scholar Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche states that the Chöd tradition developed by Machig Labdrön is "a radical synthesis of the Prajnaparamita tradition and tantra guru yoga that 'cuts' through the ego" [3].

Historical texts portray Machig Labdrön as the originator of the Chöd lineage, which she developed in Tibet.

This was confirmed in her own lifetime by Indian Brahmin priests and others, and Machig Labdron's creation of the Chöd lineage is not doubted by its modern practitioners [4].

The highest female incarnation in Tibet, the first Samding Dorje Phagmo, Princess Chökyi Drönma (1422–1455), a female tulku (incarnation) lineage of Vajravārāhī, was understood to be an emanation of Machig Labdrön (King of the Empty Plain, Stearns, 2007).

Violent denunciation by Maoists: Samding Dorje Phagmo, parents during Cultural Revolution

Vajravarahi mandala

The influences of other practices on Chöd are debated. Some posit Machig Labdron may have come from a Yungdrung Bön [black magic shaman] family, a position that contradicts historical records [5].

According to Namkhai Norbu, Chöd might be interpreted through combining native Tibetan shamanism with the Dzogchen teachings.

Other Buddhist teachers and scholars offer differing interpretations of the origins of Chöd. Not all of them agree that Chöd has Bön shamanistic roots [6]. More

The Tibetan Yoga of Dreaming

Tibetan tantric dream yoga (milam) In the yoga of dreaming (rmi lam), the yogi and yogini learn to remain aware (lucid dream) during the states of dreaming and use this skill to practice yoga in the dream... The Yoga of the Dream State is a suite of advanced tantric daily practices (sadhana) of the entwined Mantrayana (Vajrayana) lineages of Dzogchen (Nyingmapa, Ngagpa, Mahasiddha, Kagyu, and Bönpo). It consists of tantric processes and techniques in the trance bardos [liminal spaces] of dream and sleep or the Six Dharmas of Naropa, the "dream body" and the "bardo body" being identified with the "vision body" (yid lus)...

Tantric sex (sexual yoga)
Sex, love, and abuse with Guru "Baba"
Tibetan tantric practice
Buddha's Wisdom, July 29, 2026; CC Liu, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Jesus in the Himalayas: 18 missing years

(Asangoham) Jesus in the Himalayas: The greatest story Never told

Jesus' missing years in the Himalayas

Jesus Lived in India

But how could Lord Jesus be in Buddhist India, Tibet, or Ladakh when he was busy trying to save Palestine? Well, you see, children, he wasn't born lord. Young Yeshua had to earn his stripes by ditching the Land of Judea, joining a merchant caravan, and traveling East to India/Tibet, arriving at a Jewish business outpost near Kashmir where others did business and young Jesus was exposed to the Wisdom of the East, meeting Buddhist lamas at Hemis Gompa, a lamasery he would study at for years, meeting Hindu masters and learning about the Vedas and other esoteric knowledge, mastering yoga, the siddhis (supernatural abilities), and realizing his mission was to teach in the Middle East not the Far East. He was already a renowned troublemaker in and around Kashmir, having strong views proclaiming the peace of the Monad (GOD, Brahman, the One True godhead of this universe) and realizing his own divinity as a human, a devaputra among humankind.

Journey Into Kashmir Tibet

Scholar Holger Kersten summarizes the findings of others like Russian Christian Nicolas Notovitch who found definitive documented evidence of where Jesus was for the 18 "lost years" excluded from the official Bible canon and Swami Abhedananda (author of and Why a Hindu Accepts Christ and rejects Churchianity), corroborating Notovitch's claims. This new information aligns with what the Gnostics, Essenes, and Nazarenes taught about a wise teacher who returned from the East a vegan, preaching love and oneness, and the cult mysteries of initiation to realize the death of the ego and the kingdom of GOD here and now, contradicting official church teachings more interested in controlling Romans and other followers than liberating anyone or telling them that they, too, are divine.

(Finding Meaning Project) They all discovered the same thing? The Buddha (Early Buddhism), Lao Tzu (Taoism), Jesus Christ (Gnostic Christian), Rumi (Sufi), Ramana Mahashi (Hinduism)

(MythVision TV) The original Jesus was hidden in Mark | Bart D. Ehrman

"Jesus" is not even his name

(Gnostic Library) The true name of Jesus (Nag Hammadi Library)

The God before God: Jewish-Christian deity

(Pantheon Mythology)

The God prior to God: El

El means "god" or "deity" or as a proper name, El refers to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities.

El ("God") is a Northwest Semitic word. A rarer form, 'ila, represents the predicate form in the Old Akkadian and Amorite languages [8]. The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil- [9]. Originally a Canaanite deity known as 'El, 'Al, or 'Il was the supreme god of the ancient Canaanite religion [10].

It has always been understood that there were many gods, which is clear from teh Bible even as henotheists and monotheists try to obscure that fact.

The Jewish God El

Scholars like Frank Moore Cross and Ignace Gelb speculate El may have also been the supreme god of East Semitic speakers in the Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia (circa 2900–circa 2350 BCE) [11, 12].

Among the Hittites, El was known as Elkunirša (Hittite 𒂖𒆪𒉌𒅕𒊭 Elkunīrša). Although El was given different appearances and meanings in different languages over time, the word continues to exist as El-, -il, or -el in compound proper noun phrases like Isra'el (Hebrew Yīsrāʾēl, Israēl, which means "El [God] persists or rules," Micha'el, Beth'el, and El'izabeth, most of which are theophoric given names. More: El (deity)

The Monad (Gnosticism): the GOD prior to all other gods
(Nerd Robot) Orthodox vs. Catholic vs. Protestant
Creator of the physical world: "The Demiurge" Yaldabaoth (Yahweh, Jehovah, YHWH)

How to call upon GOD (the Monad)

(Gnostic Library) I tried Sophia’s Monad call. What happened shocked me (Stop praying as if prayer were begging God!)

The Elohim: Hebrew word meaning "gods." The word is plural. It can also mean "godhood," which is to say what beings who become gods are called. As an abstract noun it refers to the concept of "divinity." In the Jewish (Hebrew) Bible, it often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement to refer to a single deity, particularly but not always the God of henotheistic and polytheistic Judaism, that later tried to claim itself only monotheistic. In other verses it takes plural agreement and refers to gods in the plural. Who were these other gods? God's wife Asherah was one. She (the Goddess) was well known. The other, El, is less known because it is hidden through the biblical texts, which were chosen for political and Roman imperial purposes.

The Devil before Satan

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Arresting war criminal Bibi Netanyahu

Jewish Zionist organization that rules world

(Volksgeist) The all-American CIA-groomed, blood libel declaring recruit Ben Netanyahu (aka "Ben Nitay," "Bibi," whose real name is Benjamin Mileikowsky, grandson of Russian Zionist Rabbi Nathan Mileikowsky).

Zionist grandfather Rabbi Mileikowsky was the father of scholar and academic Benzion Netanyahu (née Mileikowsky), and the grandfather of the current military dictator/prime minister of Israel, who has ruled for 25% of its existence.

Ben bosses me like many presidents before me
The self-defined roles and functions of the CIA are roughly equivalent to other brutal secret police agencies the CIA inspired such as Germany's BND, UK's MI6, Australia's ASIS, France's DGSE, Russia's FIS, China's MSS, India's R&AW, Pakistan's ISI, Egypt's GIS, Israel's Mossad and Shin Bet, and South Korea's NIS.

POLL: Americans hate Bibi's Israel