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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary, October 29, 2022

Xuanfa Institute Logo. Two new videos of the class held on October 29, 2022 concerning DCB26-How to Realize Prajna have been added to that course for Buddhist Studies and Xiuxing Seminary Students. Please note the...

October 29, 2022

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“The Life of Milarepa” available at LFBCS

Statue of Milarepa. I am very happy to announce a new biography on Patriarch Milarepa that Don Asper has prepared and it is wonderful. B26-The Life of Milarepa by Tsangnyon Heruka has long been a favorite account of one...

October 29, 2022

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Discussion on “The Four Limitless States of Mind Held on October 22, 2022

October 22, 2022 Sunrise at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. Today we focused on the “Four Limitless States of Mind.” We first looked at who we applied those states of mind to first, second, and so on until we applied them to...

October 22, 2022

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New Session to Continue Discussion on Preliminary Practice Dharmas on October 22, 2022

Queen Anne’s Lace or Wild Carrot. We were unable to finish all of Lesson 38 today. We will continue our discussion of the preliminary practices with a special session on October 22 at 9:00 am Pacific Daylight Time...

October 16, 2022

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Revised Holy Vajrasana Temple Website

Canadian Goose Family Visiting the Temple. The Holy Vajrasana Temple website has been updated to better integrate it with the Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS) activities, complement this more-or-less...

October 9, 2022

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Discussion on Preliminary Practices Begins on “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra”

Student studying “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. Today, October 1, 2022, we continued our discussion of questions from DCB26 on “How to Realize Prajna” a discourse...

October 1, 2022

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Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra

We just finished another 30-day retreat (August 5-September 5, 2022) devoted to studying Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. Seventeen people participated and eight were able to complete reading the...

September 12, 2022

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German Rinpoche Receives Guidance from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III-Revised

In mid-February, Gongjue Tuji Rinpoche from Cologne, Germany told me he had been visited by our Buddha Master, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, and reassured that he would be able to receive the inner-tantric initiation He...

July 1, 2022

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Oops! Wind Storm Takes Out Favorite Tree

Lake at the temple after the first snow runoff in 2022. I am glad we got some photos of the eucalyptus tree by our lake before Mother Nature decided to relocate it. We had a very fierce wind storm this week and it blew...

June 25, 2022

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LFBCS Residential Program

Lake at the temple after the first snow runoff in 2022. We have started a program of having residential seminary students stay at the temple. These are unique students who want to devote their lives to learning from...

June 25, 2022

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