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

Buddha-dharma Quotes

QUOTE–Crown Opening

…no matter what kind of Buddha-dharma one practices, Mahayana, Hinayana, Exoteric or Esoteric Buddhism, as long as it is about Buddha-dharma, one’s crown has to open up to be able to become accomplished. If not...

April 2, 2023

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Opening Your Crown

Painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Since we discussed the significance of opening your crown in attaining liberation at our recent LFBCS class, I thought it might be helpful to provide access to the discourse that...

April 2, 2023

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

C41(A)-Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice

Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). This course is designed to introduce the basic teachings of both H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and the 14th Century Tibetan Master Je Tsongkhapa in the context of Je Tsongkhapa’s Lam Rim or...

April 1, 2023

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Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva Great Compassion Empowerment Dharma Assembly planned in Salt Lake City-REVISED

Painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III of Kuan Yin Bodhisattva. There will be a Kuan Yin Bodhisattva Great Empowerment Dharma Assembly in Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday, April 8, 2023 starting at 1:00 pm Mountain...

April 1, 2023

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Buddha-dharma Science

Emptiness and Quantum Physics

Albert Einstein

A reader of this blog sent me this video on the Buddhist concept of emptiness and modern quantum physics that I think some of you may find interesting.

April 1, 2023

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 18, 2023

This Saturday, March 18, 2023, we finished our discussion of “ta” with a discussion on whether it is possible to attain sudden enlightenment including a discussion of what happened with the sixth patriarch of Chan/Zen...

March 19, 2023

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QUOTE-Karmic Hindrances

Understand that karmic hindrances are originally empty. Those who have not yet understood this must first repay their karmic debts from previous lives.” Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra, H.H. Dorje...

March 19, 2023

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A Review of Four Translations of the Teaching of Vimalakirti

Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves You may download a scholarly review by Jan Nattier of four different English translations of The Teaching of Vimalakirti...

March 19, 2023

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Buddha-dharma Events Retreats

Another Kalu Rinpoche Interview

H.E. Kalu Rinpoche (1990- ). This is another interview with H.E. Kalu Rinpoche II in Bhutan with Farmer Sangay that I think you might find interesting. He covers practice; enlightenment; awareness; meditation...

March 16, 2023

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III delivering Dharma Discourse on ”The Intrinsically Existing Truth of No Arising and No Ceasing in the Universe and in Human Lives Realized by the Buddha Was Not Created by the Buddha” at the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena, California.

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Discovering the Root of Buddhism, Propagating True Buddha Dharma

This video produced in China over four years ago has now been published again by the Office of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III with English subtitles on their YouTube channel. It has several of His senior disciples...

March 14, 2023

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