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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), August 3, 2024?

We finished the entire LFBCS course DCB22 with Lesson 14 and our study of the meaning of the terms suffering and adversity and the nature of the ten kinds of suffering. You should read or listen to these teachings to...

August 8, 2024

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Skyline TV Interview-Hong Kong, 2014

Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra was presented to the Grand Dharma Assembly held in Hong Kong in March 2014. Long Hui Fa Shi and I were interviewed concerning the miraculous events related to this...

August 8, 2024

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Dharma for the Unborn Baby

Jizo statue at Japanese Temple. Ten years ago, I asked H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III about what I should do to help a student who had just miscarried a baby. He very compassionately gave me the advice that is conveyed in...

August 4, 2024

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Photo of Jizo Painting by Giselle Potter

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The Japanese Art of Grieving a Miscarriage

Photo of Jizo Painting by Giselle Potter The following article by Angela Elson is from The New York Times, January 5, 2017. When we lived in Japan, my husband took me on a date to a cemetery. In his defense, it was a...

August 4, 2024

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Bardo Teachings: The Way of Death and Rebirth

Ven. Lodru Rinpoche. At our ZOOM class today, we discussed the bardo and I mentioned this article, so I am reposting it FYI. In April 2023 I attended an on-line teaching on Five Element Calm-Abiding Practice and Five...

August 3, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), July 27, 2024?

We finished Lesson 13 with our study of the “Ten Illusory Things” and what they can teach us about emptiness as well as “The Eighteen Kinds of Emptiness”. The Buddha Master provided a detailed...

August 2, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), July 20, 2024?

We continued discussing Lesson 13 of the text of DCB22-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra: “PART TWO-I “. . . saw that they (the five aggregates) were all empty. . .” at our July 20, 2024 ZOOM session...

July 22, 2024

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Commentary from Class on “The Ten Illusory Things”

A mirage of water on a road. In a recent class on the passage “. . . illuminated the five aggregates, saw that they are all empty. . .” from Expounding the Absolute Truth from the Heart Sutra, we engaged in...

July 22, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), July 13, 2024?

We finished discussing Lesson 12 of the text of DCB22-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra: “PART TWO-I “. . . saw that they (the five aggregates) were all empty. . .” at our July 13...

July 18, 2024

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