Karma or the law of causation is not a universal principle in the west, but it is becoming more well known. I became a Buddhist because I could never understand how the Christian God would allow bad things to happen to...
A student recently asked me about Erroneous View #24-“Acknowledging that one may postpone learning from Buddha until one is less busy with worldly matters,” while other students have asked about how to...
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...
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...
On December 16 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...
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 Practice. We will...
Medicine Buddha Thangka. This article provides information on the three main aspects of the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation: the dharma of not falling into evil and erroneous views, the dharma of...
In addition to our featured courses that we will discuss most Saturday mornings, I want to add an opportunity to investigate the lives and teachings of Buddhist masters–the patriarchs and matriarchs of the major...
I mentioned in my last blog that I had added another biography to the curriculum at the Learning from Buddha College and Seminary. It is on Lady Niguma (10th to 11th centuries), a Tibetan Matriarch of the...
Lady Yeshe Tshogyal. Some Buddhist believe that you need to be born as a male to become a holy being and that the spiritual capacity of females is not as great as that of males, but that is not the case. Green Tara...