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Samatha and Vipashyana or Special Insight

I want to share some background in preparation for our classes on the Paramitas–especially the last two, Meditation and Wisdom. I found that Tsongkapa in one of his many lamrims, the Middle-Length Treatise on the...

February 27, 2023

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Kamalashila & His Three Bhavanakramas

Kamalashila (740-795) Kamalashila was a great Indian scholar and the main disciple of the Abbot of Nalanda Monastery, Shantarakshita. Shantarakshita (725-788) is considered the last of the great Indian Buddhist scholars...

February 26, 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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Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice

Master Atisha (982–1054). Here is what I have done to date in linking the teachings of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III to those of Kadampa Master Atisha (982-1054), Je Tsongkapa (1357-1419), and Pabongka Rinpoche (1878...

January 26, 2023

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Introduction to “Learning from Buddha”-REVISED

The following is a reposting of an article from this blog originally posted on September 21, 2020. I have added a paragraph to include the works of other masters that we should study and include other related links...

January 8, 2023

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The Teachings of Master Tsongkapa

Master Tsongkapa, We have a course listed on Master Tsongkapa’s (1357-1419) classic The Lam Rim Chen Mo or Broad Commentary on Levels of the Bodhi Path, which will probably use Master Pabongka’s (1878-1941) Liberation...

January 8, 2023

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

“Chuda sweeping,” from Pabongka Rinpoche’s “Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand.” Drawing above of Chudapanthaka (Chuda) sweeping out the temple is from Pabongka Rinpoche’s Liberation in the Palm...

October 10, 2022

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Samatha and Vipashyana or Special Insight

Kamalashila & His Three Bhavanakramas

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

Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice

Introduction to “Learning from Buddha”-REVISED

The Teachings of Master Tsongkapa

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