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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

Learning from Buddha College & Seminary Opens

Altar at the Holy Vajrasana Temple in Sanger, California with copy of “Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra.” I can think of no way to better honor our beloved Buddha Master, H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III...

April 7, 2022

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Chapter 16, The Lotus Sutra: Life Span of a Buddha

Gesang Rinpoche shared this Chapter 16 excerpt from the Lotus Sutra concerning the “Life Span of the Buddha” that I thought you might find helpful. It rang true for me and was most helpful. Gesang will be offering an...

February 17, 2022

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Learning from Buddha College & Seminary Being Tested, Revised

Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche reading the preliminary translation of a Dharma Discourse on ZOOM. The Learning from Buddha College & Seminary website has been launched—at least in beta-test mode. Those of you who registered...

February 9, 2022

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE – Wrongs of Others Are My Wrongs

The wrongs of others are my wrongs. To regard others and yourself as one is great compassion. A true cultivator regards the mistakes of others as his own mistakes. Do not talk about the wrongs of others. Do not...

September 6, 2020

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QUOTE–Putting Concepts into Practice

Only when one is proficient in putting concepts into practice can one turn to meditation practice to cultivate the state of not being attached to anything. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III “Supreme and Unsurpassable...

May 10, 2020

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE–Bodhichitta Is Actual Conduct

Bodhicitta is actual conduct based upon great compassion that aids living beings in becoming Buddhas or Bodhisattvas. It is the mind of love in the holy sense that the enlightened and the unenlightened or the holy and...

April 11, 2020

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE–Realization

Only through cultivation, learning dharma, and changing the order in which effects would otherwise mature due to causes can you realize prajna, your intrinsic nature, liberation, and accomplishment. H.H. Dorje Chang...

January 12, 2020

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE–Cultivation

Cultivation is adopting specific methods to correct yourself and conform with the principles taught by the Buddha.
H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III
Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra

January 12, 2020

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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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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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