The Saturday morning discussions for LFBCS students started again at 9:00 am, January 7, 2023, on the title of the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra with the first of many sessions on “Prajna,” one of the most...
The sea is not my problem, My task is not the mountain, My job is not the earth; My calling’s rather to attend That I should never fail Repaying kindness granted me. Verses of Drumsong, King of the Serpentines...
Carrot-Leek Miso Soup. Another winter comfort soup to warm you on a rainy day. This one I started last night in my crock pot anticipating we might not have power and that was the case. We had just started the Mahakaruna...
The following is a reposting of an article from this blog originally posted on September 21, 2020. I have added a paragraph to include the works of other masters that we should study and include other related links...
Master Tsongkapa, We have a course listed on Master Tsongkapa’s (1357-1419) classic The Lam Rim Chen Mo or Broad Commentary on Levels of the Bodhi Path, which will probably use Master Pabongka’s (1878-1941) Liberation...
Two new courses—D07.1(A)-Concise Discourses and D07:2(A)-Discourses by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Answers Questions from Western Disciples—from 2006 and 2009 are available for all beginning students. Questions range...
I mentioned in my last blog that I had added another biography to the curriculum at the Learning from Buddha College and Seminary. It is on Lady Niguma (10th to 11th centuries), a Tibetan Matriarch of the...
As stars, blurred vision, candles, illusions, dew, bubbles, dreams, lightning, and clouds; so should all that is conditioned be seen. “The Diamond Sutra”
Lady Yeshe Tshogyal. Some Buddhist believe that you need to be born as a male to become a holy being and that the spiritual capacity of females is not as great as that of males, but that is not the case. Green Tara...
World’s tallest statue of Buddha (175 feet tall) in Bamiyan, in Afghanistan. Before it was destroyed by Taliban Islamic militia in 2001. I’ve updated this article from 2021 and 2018 to include more links to...