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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), June 17, 2023?

We continued Lesson 4-The Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation today by discussing the remaining links 9-12 of the “Twelve Links of Dependent or Conditional Origination:” grasping, existence, birth, and aging...

June 18, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 4, 2023

Finally we completed the 295 questions we covered to date on the background and title of the Heart Sutra. Over 200 of these questions were on the title and we have only finished one word “PRAJNA.” Of course that is a...

March 4, 2023

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Course added to LFBCS on Three Principal Stages or Paths of Buddhist Practice-REVISED

Bronze statue of Je Tsongkapa. As I was developing the second lesson in C41-Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice, I realized a major omission. Je Tsongkapa included a basic introduction into...

February 11, 2023

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Course offered on Expounding Dharma through the Title of the Heart Sutra-Revised Again & Again

Student studying “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra.” Once again we will need to revise our schedule in our study of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra to allow more time for our...

January 30, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 21, 2023

The Saturday morning discussions for LFBCS students started again at 9:00 am, January 21, 2023, on the title of the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra with the third of many sessions on “Prajna,” one of the most important and...

January 26, 2023

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Matriarch Niguma, Lady of Illusion

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...

December 31, 2022

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Who is a Rinpoche? Who Is a Tulku?

Kalu Rinpoche II. I have been asked, “What is a rinpoche?” and usually answer with what I understood the Tibetan word meant–“Precious One.” That may be technically correct, but I found a more complete definition...

December 18, 2022

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Video of Discussion on B26-Master Milarepa & Facilitating a Bio Course at LFBCS

Milarepa statue from Nyanang Phelgyeling Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal. This video of a discussion on LFBCS Course B26-Milarepa between course facilitator Don Asper and myself discusses the course and the importance of...

November 29, 2022

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Discussion on “Correspondance, False Practice, and Other Matters” Held on November 5, 2022

More Clouds. This last session on the Preliminary Practices part of the “How to Realize Prajna” discourse contained in Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III was held on...

November 5, 2022

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Discussion on “Eliminating Barriers” and the “The Six Paramitas” Held on October 29, 2022

Clouds. We started the October 29 class with a look at how we actually treat other people in regard to the Four Limitless States of Mind as an introduction to Lesson 39 on “Dharma to Pass Thru Barriers and the Six...

October 31, 2022

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