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Opening Your Crown

Painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Since we discussed the significance of opening your crown in attaining liberation at our recent LFBCS class, I thought it might be helpful to provide access to the discourse that...

April 2, 2023

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C41(A)-Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice

Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). This course is designed to introduce the basic teachings of both H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and the 14th Century Tibetan Master Je Tsongkhapa in the context of Je Tsongkhapa’s Lam Rim or...

April 1, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 18, 2023

This Saturday, March 18, 2023, we finished our discussion of “ta” with a discussion on whether it is possible to attain sudden enlightenment including a discussion of what happened with the sixth patriarch of Chan/Zen...

March 19, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 11, 2023-Revised

Please note that I am sharing more of what we discuss each week about Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. This week you will also find an index and links to these weekly articles and, for those who...

March 12, 2023

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Manjurshri Bodhisattva stands guard over the Chinese edition of 'Expounding the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra' on the altar in the Buddha Hall at the Holy Vajrasana Temple.

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Seeing and Awakening

The Buddha Hall, The Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center, Sanger, California, with copy of “Implementing the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra.” Someone asked at the end of the class on Saturday about...

March 12, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 4, 2023

Finally we completed the 295 questions we covered to date on the background and title of the Heart Sutra. Over 200 of these questions were on the title and we have only finished one word “PRAJNA.” Of course that is a...

March 4, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 26, 2023

Saturday’s discussion (February 25, 2023) may have been our most impactful yet–or at least it was for me. I could see the “ahas” as we gained insight into the true meaning of “prajna,” especially the third and...

February 27, 2023

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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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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 22, 2023

Our ZOOM discussion on February 18 finished Lesson 4 and began Lesson 5, continuing our study of the three types of prajna from DCB21 on the components of the title of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart...

February 22, 2023

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