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Rev. Vajra Karuna (Norman McClelland) took his lay and priestly ordinations at the International Buddhist Meditation Center in Los Angeles between the years 1982-1997. In 2002 he received the red robe which acknowledged his right to be a fully independent Zen teacher. In December of 2008 he received Dharma transmission from his teacher, Rev. Karuna Dharma, which qualified him as a Zen master. In that Rev. Vajra’s lineage is Vietnamese he is also known as Thich Tam-Thi (Tik-tam-tee). Among other works Rev. Vajra is the author of the Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma (2010); How to Sit on the Throne of the Godless God of the Seventh Day (the Trans-Sufi Teachings of Master Uthman ibn ar-Rum (2020); and Zen Koans, Paradoxical Awakening.