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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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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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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 19, 2022

A zoom discussion was held last Saturday, December 17, on DCB21 Lesson 2 that provided H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s introduction to the title of the Prajna Parami-ta Heart Sutra and how it would be studied. In the...

December 19, 2022

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

Quote-Guru Devotion

Acknowledging that following the “Fifty Stanzas of Guru Devotion” requires one to pay respect to a fake holy master. An Erroneous View from “The Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation” by H.H. Dorje Chang...

December 18, 2022

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Rainbow lights appearing in Hesperia, California, after dharma discourse class at the Xuanfa Holy Heavenly Lake Dharma Center on February 2, 2020.

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The Five Turbidities & Hope

Rainbow lights appearing in Hesperia, California, after dharma discourse class at the Xuanfa Holy Heavenly Lake Dharma Center on February 2, 2020. This article was originally posted last month as an expression of hope...

December 13, 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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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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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.

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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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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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