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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 11, 2025

Today we discussed the methods used by different schools and traditions to attain awakening including the Chan/Zen School, the Dharma Characteristics-Consciousness Only School, the Pure Land School, the Huayen...

January 10, 2025

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QUOTE-The Six Tastes and Three Virtues”

“If the six tastes are not suitable and if the food lacks the three virtues, the tenzo’s offering to the assembly is not complete.” Eihei Dogen (1200-1253), Teno Kyokun (How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to...

December 7, 2024

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Photo of Eihei Dogen watching the moon at the Hokyo-ji Monastery, Japan, ca 1250.

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The Mountains & Waters Discourse (Sansui Kyo)

Eihei Dogen watching the moon at the Hokyo-ji Monastery, Japan, ca 1250. The Sansui Kyo, sometimes referred to as the Mountains and Waters Sutra is a short essay by the 13th century Zen Master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253)...

July 22, 2024

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Photo of Zendo at the Fa Chan Temple, Hesperia, California

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Fa Chan Temple opens in Hesperia

Zendo at the Fa Chan Temple, Hesperia, California. On June 17, 2024 at Fa Chan Temple in Hesperia, California, Fa Zang Rinpoche held the first Oryoki lunch at the newly installed Zendo for Zen meditation. Zhengda Zhou...

July 3, 2024

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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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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 17, 2024

On February 17, 2024 we continued our study of DCB22- Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart Sutra-I by looking at examples of how Avalokiteshvara saves living beings, what is the mission and nature...

February 22, 2024

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

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Expounds The Great Dharma of Zen Practice

“Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Learn about the dharma of Zen practice taught by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III who provides essential mantras & methods for proper practice of Zen as...

February 8, 2024

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Holy Vajra Pill that flew to the Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California.

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What Are Saints or Holy Beings in Buddhism?

Holy Vajra Pill that flew to the Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California. The following is a section of my book Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform on just what is a saint or...

October 28, 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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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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