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Gesang Suolang Rinpoche (Margaret Park Esterman), 1954-2023

Gesang Suolang Rinpoche, 1954-2023. The memorial held this morning at the Wasatch Retreat Center in Salt Lake City was a joyful tribute to our friend and vajra sister, Gesang Suolang Rinpoche. Her family, friends...

July 22, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), July 15, 2023?

We finished Lesson 4 on the Intermediate Stage or the Path of Renunciation on July 15 with a discussion of what it means to become accomplished; why the three disciplines of precept observance, dhyana, and wisdom are...

July 19, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), June 24, 2023?

Lesson 4- the Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation continued with a discussion of why Buddhists were not interested in going to “heaven.” Buddhists consider the heavens as a reward for living a good...

June 26, 2023

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B24-Lady Niguma Biography Course

Lady Niguma. We held our first class discussion on June 20, 2023 discussing the Eight Chariots and how the Niguma lineage fit into that framework along with the question, “Who was Lady Niguma?” We finished...

June 21, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), June 17, 2023?

We continued Lesson 4-The Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation today by discussing the remaining links 9-12 of the “Twelve Links of Dependent or Conditional Origination:” grasping, existence, birth, and aging...

June 18, 2023

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ZOOM Meetings Planned to Discuss Biography of Lady Niguma (10th-11th centuries)-Revised

In addition to our featured courses that we will discuss most Saturday mornings, I want to add an opportunity to investigate the lives and teachings of Buddhist masters–the patriarchs and matriarchs of the major...

June 17, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), June 10, 2023?

We continued Lesson 4-The Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation today by discussing links 3-8 of the “Twelve Links of Dependent or Conditional Origination:” consciousness, name and form, the six entrances or...

June 13, 2023

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The Yogis of Tibet

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III told us that Esoteric Buddhism was a form of yoga. This video gives a glimpse of the physical Dharma practice of the yogis and yoginis in Tibet known as Trulkhor. This tantric form of...

June 8, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), May 27, 2023?

We started Lesson 4-The Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation today at 9:00 am PDT with D12(A)-Cutting Off the Twenty Dharmas Relating to Ordinary Feelings and the related “Eight Worldly Winds,” which are relevant...

May 28, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), May 20, 2023?

We finished C41-Lesson 3-Initial Stage with a discussion of “Ten Wholesome Behaviors” and “Purification-The Four Opponent Powers.” The mantra “The Wrongs of Others Are My Wrongs” was also added to this...

May 21, 2023

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