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

On January 13 we almost finished our discussion of the third Mind-Essence practice from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation part of Lesson 5 of C41(A)-The Three Principal Stages and Paths of Buddhist...

January 15, 2024

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Ven. Pannavati Establishes the Correct Cultivation Learning from Buddha Academy in North Carolina

Ven. Pannavati at a jungle monastery in Thailand in 2009. Venerable Pannavati Karuna, MahaTheri, the abbot of the Heartwood Refuge Monastery has also founded the Correct Cultivation Learning from Buddha Academy in...

January 14, 2024

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Gongjue Tuji Rinpoche Establishes H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Website in Germany

Altar at Xuanfa Dharmazentrum, Cologne, Germany. There is now a beautiful website in German (and English) in Europe that introduces H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and the authentic Buddha Dharma of Shakyamuni Buddha as...

January 14, 2024

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Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhuni, MahaTheri.

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Meditation Summit-January 23-30, 2024

Venerable Pannavati Karuna Bhikkhuni, MahaTheri, founder of the Heartwood Refuge and the Correct Cultivation Learning from Buddha Academy in Hendersonville, North Carolina, has sent an invitation to an “Art of...

January 14, 2024

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Quote-Awakening

Thus, it cannot be said that attaining awakening is equal to ending the cycle of birth and death and results in elimination of karmic hindrances. Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-Part One, H.H...

January 13, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 6, 2024?

On January 6 we finished our discussion of the third Mind-Essence practice from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation part of Lesson 5 of C41(A)-The Three Principal Stages and Paths of Buddhist Practice...

January 12, 2024

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QUOTE-Wisdom and Dhyana

All wisdom comes from dhyana. Without dhyana, what arises is worldly cleverness or intelligence. The dhyana of practitioners of non-Buddhist ways falls into the categories of two types of emptiness—nihilistic...

January 12, 2024

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Holy Vajrasana Temple, Buddha Hall with "Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra" in front of the Buddha.

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Learning from Buddha College & Seminary

Catalog of required courses for Auditing, Buddhist Studies, Xiuxing Seminary, & Xiuxing Practice Programs at Learning from Buddha College & Seminary.

January 12, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 30, 2023?

On December 30 we continued our discussion of of the third Mind-Essence practice from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation part of Lesson 5 of C41(A)-The Three Principal Stages and Paths of Buddhist...

January 5, 2024

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The Four Opponent Powers and Vajrasattva Practice

Painting of Vajrasattva Mahasattva by Zhaxi Zhuoma Much of last weeks discussion was on the process of purification and how we truly repent and the role that confession has in this process. We were reminded of the Four...

January 5, 2024

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