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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This YouTube documentary by the BBC was done several years ago, but is worthy of another visit as it gives us a glimpse of the various forms of Buddhism and some of the great monuments and architectural expressions in...
We finished C41-Lesson 3-Initial Stage with a discussion of “Ten Wholesome Behaviors” and “Purification-The Four Opponent Powers.” The mantra “The Wrongs of Others Are My Wrongs” was also added to this...