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Amitabha Buddha Dharma Assembly

Amitabha Buddha statue at Hua Zang Si, San Francisco, California.

Enjoy the Dharma Assembly at Hua Zang Si celebrating Amitabha Buddha ’s birthday this year.

December 13, 2022

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Art Buddha-dharma Events

The White Horse Temple

White Horse Temple, Luoyang, China. In the first century CE, Emperor Ming in the Eastern Han dynasty had a dream about a golden Buddha who had been born earlier in India and wanted to know more about this magical holy...

December 12, 2022

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Buddha-dharma Events Miracles

What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 11, 2022

Discussion on Lesson 1 of DCB21 of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra was held December 10. This lesson dealt with who would benefit from this text, and what would happen to them from hearing this...

December 11, 2022

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

Quote-State of No Birth and No Death

Reality, or true form, is the true perfect state that you who learn from Buddha want to attain. It is the state of no birth and no death. It is this reality. ‘Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra’ H.H...

December 11, 2022

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS Retreats

What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 5, 2022

We finished the first Lesson on DCB21-“Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Title of the Heart Sutra” on December 3 with a discussion on why certain Buddhist defame H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and Imparting the...

December 5, 2022

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS My Book

A Vicious Demon and Formidable Beast

My brother Glenn recently sent me the article reposted below and asked me if I had seen it. I had not, but knew the book it was from and the author of that book. She had been a lawyer in Taiwan, but became a nun and had...

December 5, 2022

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Photo of Modern sculpture of Nagarjuna (150-250 CE), Indian Mahayana monk and patriarch of the Madhyamaka School.

Buddha-dharma LFBCS

The Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra

Modern sculpture of Nagarjuna. Some of you have commented on the tables I included in the November 23, 2022 post on “Dharmas According to the ‘Prajnaparamita Sutras’” that was in response to questions asked about what...

December 5, 2022

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), November 30, 2022

November 26, 2022 was the first ZOOM class on DCB21-“Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Title of the Heart Sutra” with a discussion of the publisher’s forward on the contents and origins of the book and how a...

November 30, 2022

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

DCB26-Concluding Dharma: “How to Realize Prajna” Class Finished

The last session of DCB26 held on November 19, 2022, focused on the Concluding Dharma that we should apply to our study of the Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra (ITATTTHS) and a general discussion on...

November 30, 2022

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Reply to Inquiries No. 20180102: Holy Fire Offering of Buddha-Dharma; and Dharma King Gar Tongstan

In terms of empowerment, the difference between the “Holy Fire Offering of Buddha-Dharma” and the “Common Fire Offering of Buddha-Dharma” is like that between the sky and the ground, or like comparing a stone to a big...

November 25, 2022

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