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"Everlasting Wondrous Appeal," painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III

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Translating “Xiu Xing”

“Everlasting Wondrous Appeal,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III We started our March 7 ZOOM class on DCB35-Learning From Buddha with a question on what would be the best way to translate the Chinese...

March 9, 2026

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Bhikkhuni Pannavati and others leaving the ordination ceremony.

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Venerable Pannavati Leaves Us-Updated

Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhuni, MahaTheri. I just received word that our Venerable Dr. Pannavati Karuna, Maha Theri, the abbot of Heartwood Refuge Monastery and the founder of the Correct Cultivation Learning from Buddha...

February 26, 2026

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Classic Devotion-Chinese Buddhist Grotto Art

Vairocana Buddha (56 feet/17-meters), Ananda, & Manjusri at the Fengxian Temple, Longmen Grotto, Luoyang, Henan Province, China. Tang dynasty 672-675 CE. Statue of Shakyamuni Buddha from the Mogao Grottoes and Cave...

February 23, 2026

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Green Tara as the Yidam-REVISED AGAIN

Originally this article was published September 23, 2024. I have revised the information on P04X-Green Tara Dharma to better define the requirements. I am posting it as I decided during my retreat last fall that I would...

January 15, 2026

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Meaning of “Ta” or Dhyana

Shakyamuni Buddha. Our recent discussion of “The Relationship between Dharma and Prajna” I think left as many questions as it answered. I decided to go back to earlier classes when the Buddha Master gave us...

January 10, 2026

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Photo of Guru Padmasambhava's Tiger's Nest retreat, Bhutan.

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Pilgrimage to Bhutan, November 2025

Guru Padmasambhava’s Tiger’s Nest retreat, Bhutan. Gongjue Tuji Rinpoche represented the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Xuanfa Institute as part of the Buddhist Town delegation that visited Bhutan this November...

January 1, 2026

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Photo of Delegation from Buddhist Town in Bhutan.

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HHL Buddhist Town Newsletter, November 2025

Delegation from Buddhist Town in Bhutan. In November 2025, a 67-member delegation representing Buddhist Town (Hesperia, California) visited the Buddhist country of Bhutan. This month’s newletter provides some...

January 1, 2026

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), December 6, 2005

On December 6, 2025 we continued our discussion of DCB26-“How to Realize Prajna.” We continued with Lesson 38 on the Preliminary Practices, including the Four Unlimited States of Mind. You may still join that...

December 7, 2025

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Photo of “Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.

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Final Lesson Ten: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”

We finished our ZOOM classes of P10-“The Great Dharma of Zen Practice” with Lesson 10 and a discussion of the actual methods of zen practice taught by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. This included the three...

December 5, 2025

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Lesson Nine: P10 “The Great Dharma of Zen Practice”–Next Class, December 3, 6:00 pm

During the ninth ZOOM discussion of LFBS course P10 on November 25, we continued reading from a very early translation of Dorje Pamu’s The Dharma of Concentration, Contemplation, and Visualization (DCCV) and...

November 26, 2025

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