The six courses that cover Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra are now available with the assignment questions included for DCB21-Forwards, Introductions, and Imparting Dharma through the Title of the...
Butternut Squash Congee Last Saturday I made this for breakfast and we all loved it. You can start it the night before at around 10:00 or 11:00 and it is ready when we end morning chanting. The cottage cheese was not...
I want to talk about one aspect of cultivation that is very important. It is one of the eight right views that you must hold to be successful in your cultivation. It is not the first—that would be impermanence. That is...
A short video has been released documenting the community planting event held last month after the Dharma Assembly celebrating H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s birthday to help landscape the shore of the Holy Heavenly Lake...
“Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” on the altar at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. You may have noticed that not all the courses offered at Learning From Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS) are the...
Pobangka Rinpoche (1878-1941), Tibet. A new course on “D04(A)-Determining Who Is a True Vajra Master” is now available for Auditing and other students at the Learning from Buddha College & Seminary. It...
In mid-February, Gongjue Tuji Rinpoche from Cologne, Germany told me he had been visited by our Buddha Master, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, and reassured that he would be able to receive the inner-tantric initiation He...
Lake at the temple after the first snow runoff in 2022. I am glad we got some photos of the eucalyptus tree by our lake before Mother Nature decided to relocate it. We had a very fierce wind storm this week and it blew...
Lake at the temple after the first snow runoff in 2022. We have started a program of having residential seminary students stay at the temple. These are unique students who want to devote their lives to learning from...
We now have students who have completed or almost completed the homework assignments for the Dharma Discourse D02-Suffering and who will be preparing for debate. The debate part of the Seven Dharma System developed by...