Thus Have I Seen (and Heard)

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

Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

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

Add comment

168 views

9 min read

Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

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

Add comment

957 views

4 min read

Exhibition of art at the HHDCBIII Cultural & Art Museum, Covina, CA.

Art Buddha-dharma Events

Respectfully Honoring “H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day” Life Release Event to Pray for Blessings

Exhibition of art at the HHDCBIII Cultural & Art Museum, Covina, CA. January 19, 2011, was proclaimed H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day by Vincent C. Gray, Mayor of Washington D.C., the national capital of the United...

December 30, 2024

Add comment

99 views

1 min read

Buddha-dharma Events

San Francisco Hua Zang Si Temple Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Charity Event: “Love Without Limits” Donation Drive

San Francisco Hua Zang Si Temple Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Charity Event: “Love Without Limits” Donation Drive Photo Courtesy: Joyce Lee (The Hua Zang Si Temple held a Dharma Assembly to celebrate the Holy...

December 30, 2024

Add comment

65 views

4 min read

Buddha-dharma Events

New Registration Required to Attend Sunday SAUMOL Readings Starting January 2025

View of Kings Canyon, East of Holy Vajrasana Temple. To start the new year Reba Jinbo is asking everybody to re-register for the Sunday Morning SAUMOL Reading so that he can update his mailing list. The Meeting ID will...

December 28, 2024

Add comment

75 views

1 min read

Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

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

Add comment

70 views

4 min read

Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

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

Add comment

45 views

1 min read

Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

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

Add comment

61 views

3 min read

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

Buddha-dharma LFBCS

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

Add comment

155 views

4 min read

Art Buddha-dharma Events

Buddhist Prophecies and the Dharma- Ending Age

Kalachakra Mandala. As we enter a new year, I would like to share an article I recently found on Buddhist Prophecies that you may find interesting. It relates to the lineage charts and other background articles I am...

December 25, 2024

Add comment

69 views

12 min read