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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), August 3, 2024?

We finished the entire LFBCS course DCB22 with Lesson 14 and our study of the meaning of the terms suffering and adversity and the nature of the ten kinds of suffering. You should read or listen to these teachings to...

August 8, 2024

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QUOTE-Difference between Living Beings and Buddhas & Bodhisattvas

The only difference between living beings on the one hand and Buddhas and Bodhisattvas on the other hand is the difference between being deluded and being awake. Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart...

July 21, 2024

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Quote-Buddha Nature

Manifesting the correct principle by not abiding in anything. That is Buddha-nature.
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III from ‘The Definitive Truth Sutra”

February 14, 2024

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QUOTE – Buddhas

One Buddha is all Buddhas. All Buddhas are one Buddha.

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III from ‘The Definitive Truth Sutra’

January 24, 2022

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Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra Retreat

Studying “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra.” Oryoki lunch during the retreat. We spent Independence Day and the following week on retreat and by chanting, studying Expounding the Absolute Truth...

July 7, 2021

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The Wheel of Life showing the Buddha in all of the Six Realms of the Desire Realm, a painting at the Holy Vajrasana Temple.

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31 Planes in the Six Realms of Existence

The Wheel of Life showing the Buddha in all of the Six Realms of the Desire Realm, a painting at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. At our class last week someone asked about the various heavens and hells as expressed in...

January 31, 2021

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Register for On-Line Dharma Class on “Eight Evil Views About Vajra Masters” from the SAUMOL-June 14, 2020, 2-4 pm

Today we discussed ten erroneous views concerning Vajra Masters.This included the idea that it was acceptable for vajra masters to make unreasonable demands on or take property from their disciples or use their position...

June 7, 2020

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Photo of mummy of Chan (Zen) Sixth Patriarch Huineng (638-713) kept in Nanhua Temple in Shaoguan (northern Guangdong) China.

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The Four Bodhisattva Vows–Los Cuatro Vows del Bodhisattva

The second chant, done every morning and known as “The Four Bodhisattva Vows,” is from our refuge ceremony and one of the set of vows taken when you become a Buddhist: The Four Bodhisattva Vows...

September 22, 2019

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Can You Claim to Be a Holy One Just to Bring People to Buddhism? Evil View #6

Absolutely not! It is an evil view to think that you can justify falsely claiming to be a certain Buddha or Bodhisattva as a skillful means to bring people to the dharma. Evil View #6: Acknowledging that one may falsely...

March 3, 2019

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Listen to “Expounding the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra”

We will start listening to Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra, a book by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III based on a series of very famous discourses given in China in the 1990s, using the text, meaning...

October 28, 2018

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