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Photo of Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves

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Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves. With a major national focus on the Vice Presidential debates now, it is timely to consider again what “debate” can...

September 29, 2024

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What is the Purpose of Debates in Learning Dharma?

Inside the Jampaling Monastery in Chamdo Town of Chamdo Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region, monks are enjoying sutra debates over Buddhist scriptures. This has been a well established training technique used by some...

September 29, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), September 21, 2024?

We started Lesson 17 of Learning from Buddha College & Seminary course DCB23 with a discussion of the truth of emptiness as expressed in the lines from the Heart Sutra that says, “The same is true of feeling...

September 26, 2024

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It Will Be Fruitless If One Does Not Listen to Discourses in Accordance with the Dharma Expounded in This Discourse—Parts I & II

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III [The following combines my notes and understanding from listening to several English translations of the first two of three CDs on a discourse given by the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in 2000...

September 26, 2024

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QUOTE-Buddha Dharma & Worldly Affairs

Buddha Dharma is in the world, and attaining enlightenment from Buddha Dharma cannot be separated from worldly affairs. . . There is no Buddha Dharma separate and apart from worldly dharmas.’’ Expounding the Absolute...

September 26, 2024

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Painting by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322). Portrait of Su Shi (Su DongPo (1037-1101) crossing the river to meet Chan Master Foyin, the frontispiece in the Album of Both Odes on the Red Cliff. 1301. Ink on paper. National Palace Museum, Taipei.

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The Story of Su Dongpo’s Farts

Portrait of Su Shi (Su DongPo (1037-1101) crossing the river to meet Chan Master Foyin. In 2000, when H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III first came to America, He gave a notable discourse entitled “It Will Be Fruitless...

September 25, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), September 14, 2024?

We finished Lesson 16 of Learning from Buddha College & Seminary course DCB23 continuing our discussion of the truth of emptiness as expressed in the line from the Heart Sutra that says, “Form is...

September 16, 2024

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Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Dharma Assembly Held at Hua Zang Si

Ksitigarbha Bodhsattva at Hua Zang Si, San Francisco, California. Hua Zang Si, a Buddhist temple in San Francisco, celebrated the birthday of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Dharma Assembly on September 1, 2024. Ksitigarbha...

September 16, 2024

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Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva

Ksitigarbha, the earth store bodhisattva, with his staff he uses to pound open the gates of Hell, and his cintamani pearl for illuminating all the various realms of hell, to benefit sentient beings trapped there...

September 16, 2024

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QUOTE-Marvelous Existence

In this nirvana of great utilization of complete awareness that entails attainment yet non-attainment, no form, and neither coming nor not coming, true emptiness is marvelous existence. At this time, we do not...

September 14, 2024

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