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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. During the seventh ZOOM discussion of LFBS course P10 on November 11, we continued reading from a very early translation of Dorje Pamu’s The Dharma...
“Patriarch Bodhidharma,” painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. During the sixth ZOOM discussion of LFBS course P10 on November 4, we continued reading from a very early translation of Dorje Pamu’s The Dharma of...
Since I used Kamalasila’s Bhavanakrama (Stages of Meditation) as a source in trying to decipher the very preliminary and only known translation of Dorje PaMu’s Dharma of Concentration, Contemplation, and...
19th-century painting depicting biographical episodes from the life of Santaraksita (725-788), the abbot of Nalanda Monastery in India and founder of Samye Monastery in Tibet. SOURCE: Wikapedia. Śāntarakṣita was an...