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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 4, 2025

We started our discussion today of the mahayana state of prajna expressed in the words “…no suffering, no accumulation, no cessation, and no path; . . .” from the Heart Sutra. The following is a...

January 10, 2025

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QUOTE-Mahayana State of Prajna expressed in Four Noble Truths

The unreal is the real. The real is the unreal. The holy and the mundane are fundamentally one and the same. It only takes one thought that leads to awakening to awaken to the truth that samsara is nirvana. In this...

January 10, 2025

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C41(A)-Three Major Stages and Paths of Buddhist Practice Revisited & Revised

The Dorje Chang Buddha Lineage Refuge Tree with the Dharma Protectors from left to right: Yama, Hayagriva, Yamataka, Ekajati, Lion Vajra, Kalachakra, Vajrakilaya, Chakrasamvara, Mahakala, Guhyasamaja. Although this...

January 10, 2025

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Photo of Vulture Peak (Gridhrakūta) in Rajgir, India.

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Five Time Periods of Shakyamuni Buddha’s Teaching

Vulture Peak (Gridhrakūta) in Rajgir, India. At our class discussion on August 24, 2024, we discussed the second and third sentences from the Prajna-Paramita Heart Sutra: “Sariputra, form does not differ from...

January 10, 2025

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G03(A) & G03-Evolution of Buddhism-EXPANDED

Major Buddhas. The LFBCS courses G03(A) and G03 provide an introduction to Buddhism, the Buddhas, and what Buddhas do, with a historical look at how Buddhism came to this world and evolved over the various cultures and...

January 9, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 28, 2024

We finished S01-Seminar on the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation today, December 28, with those participating giving their abridged project reports on what they had learned from this seminar...

December 28, 2024

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QUOTE-The Four Noble Truths

. . . no suffering, no accumulation, no cessation, and no path.” That means the four noble truths of suffering, accumulation, cessation, and path inherently do not exist. They do not exist in the truth of Buddha...

December 28, 2024

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S01-SAUMOL Seminar finished December 28, 2024

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, Washington D.C., January 19, 2012. We finished our discussion today, December 28 , on Step Three of the Final Project for the Seminar on SAUMOL course. All participants used the ZOOM...

December 28, 2024

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Photo of Venerable Tsemang, Director of the Office of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.

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Seven-Dharma System of Learning the Essence of Dharma Discourses

I promised to repost the article on “debate” and the Seven-Dharma System recommended by the Buddha Master on how to listen to and implement Dharma. This article has all of it. Please read the first article...

December 26, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 22, 2024

There will be one more session for our S01-Seminar on the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation, December 28 at 9:00 am on the Final project/report. You can catch up by watching the videos of the earlier...

December 24, 2024

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