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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 20, 2024?

On January 20 we finished our discussion of the paramitas and other Bodhisattva practices part of Lesson 5 of C41(A)-The Three Principal Stages and Paths of Buddhist Practice. After summarizing the six paramitas...

January 25, 2024

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

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Zoom Discussions of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” Have Started

Holy Vajrasana Temple, Buddha Hall with “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” in front of the Buddha. We should finish our review of Part One of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart...

January 25, 2024

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

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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QUOTE-Cultivating Goodness

The true-thusness of dharma-nature being intrinsically empty and tranquil, how could there be form? However, karma binds and entraps the body that is a provisional combination of the four great elements. One can be...

December 20, 2023

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Flyer for C41-Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice-REVISED

Introduction to the Stages and Paths of Buddhism Free Course and Series of ZOOM Discussions featuring the teachings of two Buddhas: H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and Je Tsongkhapa Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). [April 29-July...

August 8, 2023

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New Course on Master Tsongkhapa’s Lam Rim Available with Series of ZOOM Discussions starting April 29

Bronze statue of Je Tsongkapa (1357-1419). The chart offering an overview of the course has been revised to include a “Conclusion” lesson that offers the next steps on the path beyond what is included in the Lam Rim. I...

May 15, 2023

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QUOTE-Karmic Hindrances

Understand that karmic hindrances are originally empty. Those who have not yet understood this must first repay their karmic debts from previous lives.” Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra, H.H. Dorje...

March 19, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 22, 2023

Our ZOOM discussion on February 18 finished Lesson 4 and began Lesson 5, continuing our study of the three types of prajna from DCB21 on the components of the title of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart...

February 22, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 12, 2023

Yesterday we discussed the middle-view state and how to avoid the “two frightening extremes” of existence and non-existence. We also considered what the rainbow body was and how to achieve it and other topics. Next...

February 12, 2023

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

Yesterday the Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra Saturday morning discussion group met again to explore another 16 questions (182-198) concerning the three types of prajnas. We considered what is...

February 7, 2023

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