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Buddha-dharma Events

How to Start a Dharma Listening Center

I am once again focusing on setting up and supporting Xuanfa Dharma Centers where people can learn the dharma of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and Shakyamuni Buddha. Normally, it is required that you have at least ten...

November 30, 2019

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE–What Is Bodhichitta?

With respect to an ordinary person, bodhicitta is compassionately helping other people and vowing that they learn Buddhism and attain liberation.
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
from “What Is Cultivation?”

November 30, 2019

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What is Bodhichitta and How Do You Cultivate It?

“There are two types of bodhicitta. There is bodhicitta in the holy sense and bodhicitta in the worldly sense. Bodhicitta in the worldly sense can be roughly divided into “vow bodhicitta” and “action bodhicitta.” The...

November 30, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events

November 24 Class in Sanger

I will read a preliminary translation and lead a discussion on Expounding the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III starting at 11:00 am with chanting and meditation starting at 10:00 am...

November 18, 2019

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New Xuanfa Dharma Center at Holy Heavenly Lake in Hesperia

In anticipation of building a second temple at Holy Heavenly Lake, we would like to start a dharma study group to introduce Buddhism to the local community. We hope to start classes there in January 2020 and continue on...

November 18, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events

Dharma Class in Rosemead on November 15

We will continue listening to preliminary translations by Benxin Chiren Wu of the series of dharma discourses given by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III on “Correcting Dharma and Exposing Evil Monk” at the...

November 10, 2019

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SAUMOL Classes Held in Salt Lake City

Zhaxi Zhuoma read and led a discussion on the Supreme and Unsurpassed Mahamudra of Liberation at the Xuanfa Utah Dharma Center in Salt Lake City, UT on November 2 & 3.

November 10, 2019

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Second “Learning from Buddha” class to be held in San Diego.

“If You Cultivate Yourself, But Do Not Learn Dharma, You Cannot Generate Realization Powers” is the second dharma class from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s book Learning from Buddha, which will be held at the Eye...

November 10, 2019

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE–Prajna

…Regarding how to truly realize prajna, how to use your actual experiences to grasp prajna, you must understand the rules and methods of continual practice.” H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha Expounding the Absolute...

November 10, 2019

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Buddha-dharma Events Retreats

October Retreat on the Heart Sutra

Serious students gathered to continue and start their study of the Buddha Master’s sutra based on the Heart Sutra. Others joined the group for the long week end. Although I was able to read much of the text, I had...

November 10, 2019

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