Zhaxi Zhuoma, Author at Thus Have I Seen (and Heard)

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Memorial Gathering for Margaret Gesang Suolang Rinpoche

Gesang Suolang Rinpoche at Devils Postpile National Monument, WY, 2016. We say goodbye to our dear friend, Vajra Sister, rinpoche, and wonderful human being who left this world July 4 after a long battle with leukemia...

July 12, 2023

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Gesang Suolang Rinpoche Shares Her Insight into the Dharma of H.H. Dorje Chang III & Why the West Needs It

Gesang Suolang Rinpoche chanting at the Installation of the Bodhi Tree at Holy Vajrasana Temple. This article was posted April 6, 2020 and needs to be posted again. Her insights into what gifts the Buddha left us and...

July 12, 2023

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Second Class held on Lady Niguma

We held our second and probably last zoom discussion on the biography of Lady Niguma by Sarah Harding. The students reading this book will continue with the homework for the text and we will consider whether or not to...

July 12, 2023

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Dharma Assembly Held to Honor Holy Birthday of Dorje Chang Buddha III

Venerable Tsemang Addressing the Dharma Assembly, June 30, 2023. We attended a two-day celebration to honor the Holy Birthday of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in Glendale, California on June 30 and July 1, 2023 sponsored...

July 2, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), June 24, 2023?

Lesson 4- the Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation continued with a discussion of why Buddhists were not interested in going to “heaven.” Buddhists consider the heavens as a reward for living a good...

June 26, 2023

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B24-Lady Niguma Biography Course

Lady Niguma. We held our first class discussion on June 20, 2023 discussing the Eight Chariots and how the Niguma lineage fit into that framework along with the question, “Who was Lady Niguma?” We finished...

June 21, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), June 17, 2023?

We continued Lesson 4-The Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation today by discussing the remaining links 9-12 of the “Twelve Links of Dependent or Conditional Origination:” grasping, existence, birth, and aging...

June 18, 2023

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ZOOM Meetings Planned to Discuss Biography of Lady Niguma (10th-11th centuries)-Revised

In addition to our featured courses that we will discuss most Saturday mornings, I want to add an opportunity to investigate the lives and teachings of Buddhist masters–the patriarchs and matriarchs of the major...

June 17, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), June 10, 2023?

We continued Lesson 4-The Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation today by discussing links 3-8 of the “Twelve Links of Dependent or Conditional Origination:” consciousness, name and form, the six entrances or...

June 13, 2023

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The Yogis of Tibet

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III told us that Esoteric Buddhism was a form of yoga. This video gives a glimpse of the physical Dharma practice of the yogis and yoginis in Tibet known as Trulkhor. This tantric form of...

June 8, 2023

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