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Photo of Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves

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Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves. With a major national focus on the Vice Presidential debates now, it is timely to consider again what “debate” can...

September 29, 2024

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What is the Purpose of Debates in Learning Dharma?

Inside the Jampaling Monastery in Chamdo Town of Chamdo Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region, monks are enjoying sutra debates over Buddhist scriptures. This has been a well established training technique used by some...

September 29, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), September 21, 2024?

We started Lesson 17 of Learning from Buddha College & Seminary course DCB23 with a discussion of the truth of emptiness as expressed in the lines from the Heart Sutra that says, “The same is true of feeling...

September 26, 2024

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It Will Be Fruitless If One Does Not Listen to Discourses in Accordance with the Dharma Expounded in This Discourse—Parts I & II

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III [The following combines my notes and understanding from listening to several English translations of the first two of three CDs on a discourse given by the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in 2000...

September 26, 2024

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QUOTE-Buddha Dharma & Worldly Affairs

Buddha Dharma is in the world, and attaining enlightenment from Buddha Dharma cannot be separated from worldly affairs. . . There is no Buddha Dharma separate and apart from worldly dharmas.’’ Expounding the Absolute...

September 26, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), September 14, 2024?

We finished Lesson 16 of Learning from Buddha College & Seminary course DCB23 continuing our discussion of the truth of emptiness as expressed in the line from the Heart Sutra that says, “Form is...

September 16, 2024

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QUOTE-Conditioned Dharmas

“All conditioned phenomena are impermanent. Sentient beings will definitely die. Insentient things will definitely perish. There is not one illusory thing that is real.” Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart...

September 14, 2024

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Ayya Saddha’s Amazing Story

Ayya Saddha at Holy Vajrasana Temple in (July 23, 2023) meditating peacefully under a tree. Avya Saddha is a Theravada nun from Cambodia–the first Khmer Bhikkhuni to ever take official residence at a Khmer...

September 9, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), September 7, 2024?

We started Lesson 16 of Learning from Buddha College & Seminary course DCB23 with a discussion of the truth of emptiness as expressed in the line from the Heart Sutra that says, “Form is emptiness; emptiness...

September 9, 2024

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QUOTE-Emptiness

We should understand the truth of emptiness. As long as you think you have any attainment, as long as you think you know and have attained this state of emptiness, then there is no reality that you have realized...

September 9, 2024

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