Michael Pollan, Source: Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times. This was originally just an article by David Marchese, published February 7-9, 2026 in The New York Times on author Michael Pollan’s thinking...
We started our study of DCB35-Learning from Buddha on February 14, 2026 with the introductory sections that included commentary from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, the publishers, and translators on the background and...
Monks arriving at Washington National Cathedral on February 10, 2026. Draped in burnt-orange robes, two dozen Buddhist monks finished a 2,300-mile “Walk for Peace” in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Febraury...
Jay Caspian Kang, Korean-American writer for the New Yorker. Jay Caspian Kang discusses in the current New Yorker how the concept of mindfulness has been co-opted by corporations—and how we can reclaim the practice for...
Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Our current political reality, Sunday’s Super Bowl half-time show with Bad Bunny, and the article posted on mindfulness and “Capitalist Spirituality”, all reminded me of Thich...
We have finished reading and studying all of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. On January 17, 2026 we finished our discussion of DCB26-Lesson 39 “Receiving Formal and Main Practices” and...
Disciples, true practice is established upon the determination to learn from Buddha. On the foundation of having a mind determined to leave samsara and a mind cognizant of impermanence, those who truly practice...
Baoguang Temple, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. At the end of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra, Professor Huang Huibang, an elderly disciple of His Holiness also known as...
This course, DCB35, is based on the published preliminary English translation of Learning from Buddha. It is an important teaching from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III that was given as a discourse...
Stay far away from feudal superstition, strange or heretically induced phenomena, evil masters, deceivers, non-Buddhists under the guise of Buddhism, cults, evil teachings, and evil books. Strictly abide by the precepts...