We started our study of DCB35-Learning from Buddha on February 14, 2026 with the introductory sections that included commentary from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, the publishers, and translators on the background and...
We have finished reading and studying all of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. On January 17, 2026 we finished our discussion of DCB26-Lesson 39 “Receiving Formal and Main Practices” and...
Disciples, true practice is established upon the determination to learn from Buddha. On the foundation of having a mind determined to leave samsara and a mind cognizant of impermanence, those who truly practice...
Baoguang Temple, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. At the end of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra, Professor Huang Huibang, an elderly disciple of His Holiness also known as...
Stay far away from feudal superstition, strange or heretically induced phenomena, evil masters, deceivers, non-Buddhists under the guise of Buddhism, cults, evil teachings, and evil books. Strictly abide by the precepts...
Heart Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, the Suramgama Sutra, the Agama Sutras, the Hetu-Vidya Treatise, the Madhyamaka Treatise, the Abhidharma-kosa Treatise, the Prajna Treatises, the...
Xu (Hsu) Yun (1840-1959), Patriarch of Wei Yang, Lin Ji, Fa Yan, Cao Dong, and Yu Men Chan Schools. This holy man was a great leader of Chinese Buddhism over a very long and difficult time in China. It appears that he...
On January 10, 2026 we almost finished our discussion of DCB26-“Receiving Formal and Main Practices.” There are two more questions left in Lesson 39. You may still join this class and do the following homework...
In one’s formal or main practice, one recites mantras and practices visualization so as to focus the mind. When chanting mantras and practicing visualization in one’s formal practice, the goal is to...
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 by H.H. Dorje...