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Gesang Suolang Rinpoche (Margaret Park Esterman), 1954-2023

Gesang Suolang Rinpoche, 1954-2023. The memorial held this morning at the Wasatch Retreat Center in Salt Lake City was a joyful tribute to our friend and vajra sister, Gesang Suolang Rinpoche. Her family, friends...

July 22, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), July 15, 2023?

We finished Lesson 4 on the Intermediate Stage or the Path of Renunciation on July 15 with a discussion of what it means to become accomplished; why the three disciplines of precept observance, dhyana, and wisdom are...

July 19, 2023

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE-Mundane & SupraMundane

The two noble truths of suffering and accumulation that I spoke of earlier belong to mundane cause and effect. The two noble truths of cessation and path belong to supra-mundane cause and effect. The noble truth of...

July 19, 2023

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Buddha-dharma Events Miracles

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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