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Quote-Meaning of Prajna Parami-Ta

Put together, the six characters for prajna-paramita mean relying on supreme wisdom to thoroughly illuminate the power of dhyana, using right dhyana to produce the wisdom of prajna, and, with equality of dhyana and...

February 5, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 3, 2024

On February 3, 2024 we finished our discussion of Learning from Buddha College and Seminary Lesson 6 of C41(A)-The Three Principal Stages and Paths of Buddhist Practice that was part of the Buddha Master’s...

February 5, 2024

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Quote-Previous Lives

Understand that karmic hindrances are originally empty. Those who have not yet understood this must first repay their karmic debts from previous lives. Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-Part One,H.H...

February 4, 2024

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Quote-Achieving Self Emptiness & Other Emptiness

If one has not realized emptiness of self, how could one be unimpeded by sentient beings and insentient things?” To realize other-emptiness, one must achieve self-emptiness. Thus, one cannot deviate from the true...

February 3, 2024

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Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche Reading Preliminary Translation of Part One of "Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra at Hua Zang Si, San Francisco, California.

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Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Title of the Heart Sutra

Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche Reading Preliminary Translation of Part One of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra at Hua Zang Si, San Francisco, California. Last weekend, I read from Part One of...

February 1, 2024

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English Class on “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” to be given at Hua Zang Si January 27 & 28, 2024

In 1992, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III gave a series of very famous discourses in China using the text, meaning, and principles of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva’s Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra to clearly explain the...

January 25, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 20, 2024?

On January 20 we finished our discussion of the paramitas and other Bodhisattva practices part of Lesson 5 of C41(A)-The Three Principal Stages and Paths of Buddhist Practice. After summarizing the six paramitas...

January 25, 2024

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Quote-Attaining Liberation

Practitioners must especially bear in mind that becoming awakened to the reality state of the three prajnas is not tantamount to attaining liberation and does not mean that cultivation is no longer needed. I previously...

January 25, 2024

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Quote-Plain Dharmakaya

There is the state where for the first time suddenly delusive thoughts are removed, such that the prior thought is already gone, and the next thought has not yet arisen. After achieving such a state or after realizing...

January 25, 2024

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Holy Vajrasana Temple, Buddha Hall with "Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra" in front of the Buddha.

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Zoom Discussions of “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” Have Started

Holy Vajrasana Temple, Buddha Hall with “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra” in front of the Buddha. We should finish our review of Part One of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart...

January 25, 2024

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