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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), September 23, 2023?

C41-Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice Logo for Xuanfa Institute We began Lesson 5-The Great Stage with the Method Path of Bodhichitta. This lesson is concerned with the merit-building part of the...

September 29, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), August 8, 2023?

Two major changes to future discussions of the LFBCS course C41(A) will enable us to have ZOOM discussions of both of the major Dharmas given us by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III: The “Supreme and Unsurpassable...

August 8, 2023

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Zoom Discussions planned for the “Supreme and Unsurpassed Mahamudra of Liberation”

Two Photos of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, The Holy Vajrasana Temple. As part of our discussion of the “Method Path of Bodhichitta,” which we will restart September 23, we will consider the merit-building...

August 8, 2023

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Flyer for C41-Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice-REVISED

Introduction to the Stages and Paths of Buddhism Free Course and Series of ZOOM Discussions featuring the teachings of two Buddhas: H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and Je Tsongkhapa Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). [April 29-July...

August 8, 2023

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Buddha-dharma Events Food Garden LFBCS Miracles My Book Prison Retreats

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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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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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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