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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) and 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).