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Photo of Holy Vajrasana Temple view looking East at the snow-capped Sierra Mountains.

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Revising the “Debate” feature of the courses offered at LFBCS

Looking East across the pond at the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center. Snow-capped Sierras are in the background. I am in the process of revising most of the courses offered at Learning from Buddha College &...

October 8, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), September 28, 2024?

We finished Lesson 17 of Learning from Buddha College & Seminary course DCB23 with a discussion of the truth of emptiness as expressed in the lines from the Heart Sutra that says, “The same is true of feeling...

October 1, 2024

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QUOTE-Realizing Prajna

Because all living beings, including you disciples, have created much karma over continual lifetimes and eons, we still have to rely on cultivating ourselves to realize prajna.” Expounding the Absolute Truth...

October 1, 2024

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Photo of Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves

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More on Debating in Buddhism

Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves. With a major national focus on the Vice Presidential debates now, it is timely to consider again what “debate” can...

September 29, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), September 21, 2024?

We started Lesson 17 of Learning from Buddha College & Seminary course DCB23 with a discussion of the truth of emptiness as expressed in the lines from the Heart Sutra that says, “The same is true of feeling...

September 26, 2024

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It Will Be Fruitless If One Does Not Listen to Discourses in Accordance with the Dharma Expounded in This Discourse—Parts I & II

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III [The following combines my notes and understanding from listening to several English translations of the first two of three CDs on a discourse given by the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in 2000...

September 26, 2024

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QUOTE-Buddha Dharma & Worldly Affairs

Buddha Dharma is in the world, and attaining enlightenment from Buddha Dharma cannot be separated from worldly affairs. . . There is no Buddha Dharma separate and apart from worldly dharmas.’’ Expounding the Absolute...

September 26, 2024

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Painting by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322). Portrait of Su Shi (Su DongPo (1037-1101) crossing the river to meet Chan Master Foyin, the frontispiece in the Album of Both Odes on the Red Cliff. 1301. Ink on paper. National Palace Museum, Taipei.

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The Story of Su Dongpo’s Farts

Portrait of Su Shi (Su DongPo (1037-1101) crossing the river to meet Chan Master Foyin. In 2000, when H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III first came to America, He gave a notable discourse entitled “It Will Be Fruitless...

September 25, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), September 14, 2024?

We finished Lesson 16 of Learning from Buddha College & Seminary course DCB23 continuing our discussion of the truth of emptiness as expressed in the line from the Heart Sutra that says, “Form is...

September 16, 2024

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QUOTE-Marvelous Existence

In this nirvana of great utilization of complete awareness that entails attainment yet non-attainment, no form, and neither coming nor not coming, true emptiness is marvelous existence. At this time, we do not...

September 14, 2024

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