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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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Gesang Suolang Rinpoche Shares Her Insight into the Dharma of H.H. Dorje Chang III & Why the West Needs It

Gesang Suolang Rinpoche chanting at the Installation of the Bodhi Tree at Holy Vajrasana Temple. This article was posted April 6, 2020 and needs to be posted again. Her insights into what gifts the Buddha left us and...

July 12, 2023

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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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Learning from Buddha Debates

We now have students who have completed or almost completed the homework assignments for the Dharma Discourse D02-Suffering and who will be preparing for debate. The debate part of the Seven Dharma System developed by...

June 25, 2022

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Join Our Next Open Mike–June 26, 2021, 9-11 am

If you have not already done so, you need to register to join our next Lemonade Sangha Open Mike. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link you need to join the meeting. These open...

June 21, 2021

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Disciples from China in the Abbot's study at the Holy Vajrasana Temple in Sanger, CA.

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Seven-Dharmas System for ZOOM–REVISED AGAIN

The following is a proposal as to how you could be a participant or auditor (observer) in the Seven-Dharmas System for ZOOM (SDSZ). PLEASE read the BACKGROUND and PURPOSE OF DEBATE articles first. I am sure we will...

July 20, 2020

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Buddha-dharma Events Retreats

Open Mike, Register for July 11, 2020 Session, 9-11 am

After the internet crashing, I did not think we would have an Open Mike again this week, but it came back in time to proceed and resulted in an excellent session, as they usually are. For those of you who were not there...

July 4, 2020

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Register for the Great Dharma of Zen-CLASS II–May 10, 2020, 2-4 pm

We will hold our second class on The Great Dharma of Zen on May 10, starting at 2:00 pm, PDT. This series of classes is based on a discourse and dharma transmission from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III given in 2013. Last...

May 6, 2020

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Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.

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Register for The Great Dharma of Zen-CLASS I–May 3, 2020, 2-4 pm

We will hold our first class on The Great Dharma of Zen on May 3, starting at 2:00 pm, PDT. This series of classes is based on a discourse and dharma transmission from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III given in 2013. This...

April 27, 2020

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III delivering Dharma Discourse on ”The Intrinsically Existing Truth of No Arising and No Ceasing in the Universe and in Human Lives Realized by the Buddha Was Not Created by the Buddha” at the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena, California.

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What Is Cultivation?-CLASS IV

I wasn’t sure it was a good idea to hold another class on What Is Cultivation?, but it was. I think we could have spent another hour having all 37-38 who attended giving their stories on how they were taking...

April 27, 2020

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