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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 7, 2023

The Saturday morning discussions for LFBCS students started again at 9:00 am, January 7, 2023, on the title of the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra with the first of many sessions on “Prajna,” one of the most...

January 8, 2023

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Buddha-dharma Quotes

Quote-Repaying Kindness

The sea is not my problem, My task is not the mountain, My job is not the earth; My calling’s rather to attend That I should never fail Repaying kindness granted me. Verses of Drumsong, King of the Serpentines...

January 8, 2023

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Miracles Quotes

Introduction to “Learning from Buddha”-REVISED

The following is a reposting of an article from this blog originally posted on September 21, 2020. I have added a paragraph to include the works of other masters that we should study and include other related links...

January 8, 2023

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS

The Teachings of Master Tsongkapa

Master Tsongkapa, We have a course listed on Master Tsongkapa’s (1357-1419) classic The Lam Rim Chen Mo or Broad Commentary on Levels of the Bodhi Path, which will probably use Master Pabongka’s (1878-1941) Liberation...

January 8, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 1, 2023

Two new courses—D07.1(A)-Concise Discourses and D07:2(A)-Discourses by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Answers Questions from Western Disciples—from 2006 and 2009 are available for all beginning students. Questions range...

January 1, 2023

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Matriarch Niguma, Lady of Illusion

I mentioned in my last blog that I had added another biography to the curriculum at the Learning from Buddha College and Seminary. It is on Lady Niguma (10th to 11th centuries), a Tibetan Matriarch of the...

December 31, 2022

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Buddha-dharma Quotes

Quote-Illusions

As stars, blurred vision, candles, illusions, dew, bubbles, dreams, lightning, and clouds; so should all that is conditioned be seen. “The Diamond Sutra”

December 31, 2022

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Who Has the Greater Spiritual Capacity–Males or Females?

Lady Yeshe Tshogyal. Some Buddhist believe that you need to be born as a male to become a holy being and that the spiritual capacity of females is not as great as that of males, but that is not the case. Green Tara...

December 31, 2022

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 24, 2022

We have a new class that has been added to the curriculum–B24-Lady Niguma (10th-11th century CE). I have only done about half of the homework, but the structure is there for anyone wanting to start the course. It...

December 24, 2022

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha Lifts 437* Pound Vajra Pestle

On December 23, 2021 H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III lifted the Buddha Vajra Pestle with a hook and one hand after three professional strongmen could not as shown in the video below. English translation is added below...

December 24, 2022

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