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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 24, 2024

On February 24, 2024 we continued our study of DCB22- Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart Sutra-I by exploring how the methods of the various sects or schools of Buddhism work and...

February 26, 2024

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Distilling words about phenomena should be known as the path of samatha, While a full analysis of their meanings should be known as the path of special insight (vipashyana). “Mahayana Sutralamkara (Ornament for the...

February 27, 2023

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Samatha is a one-pointed mind; special insight (vipashyana) is fine investigation” The Cloud of Jewels of Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha

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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