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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), April 1, 2023

This Morning we discussed Lesson 7 of DCB21 on the History of Master Xuanzang (602-664 CE), the Chinese translator who went to India to seek the correct Dharma and transform the translation process of bringing the...

April 2, 2023

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C41(A)-Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice

Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). This course is designed to introduce the basic teachings of both H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III and the 14th Century Tibetan Master Je Tsongkhapa in the context of Je Tsongkhapa’s Lam Rim or...

April 1, 2023

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Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva Great Compassion Empowerment Dharma Assembly planned in Salt Lake City-REVISED

Painting by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III of Kuan Yin Bodhisattva. There will be a Kuan Yin Bodhisattva Great Empowerment Dharma Assembly in Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday, April 8, 2023 starting at 1:00 pm Mountain...

April 1, 2023

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Buddha-dharma Science

Emptiness and Quantum Physics

Albert Einstein

A reader of this blog sent me this video on the Buddhist concept of emptiness and modern quantum physics that I think some of you may find interesting.

April 1, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 18, 2023

This Saturday, March 18, 2023, we finished our discussion of “ta” with a discussion on whether it is possible to attain sudden enlightenment including a discussion of what happened with the sixth patriarch of Chan/Zen...

March 19, 2023

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

QUOTE-Karmic Debts

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 H.H. Dorje...

March 19, 2023

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A Review of Four Translations of the Teaching of Vimalakirti

Vimalakirti debating Manjushri Bodhisattva. Tang Dynasty painting from the Dunhuang Caves You may download a scholarly review by Jan Nattier of four different English translations of The Teaching of Vimalakirti...

March 19, 2023

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Buddha-dharma Events Retreats

Another Kalu Rinpoche Interview

H.E. Kalu Rinpoche (1990- ). This is another interview with H.E. Kalu Rinpoche II in Bhutan with Farmer Sangay that I think you might find interesting. He covers practice; enlightenment; awareness; meditation...

March 16, 2023

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III delivering Dharma Discourse on ”The Intrinsically Existing Truth of No Arising and No Ceasing in the Universe and in Human Lives Realized by the Buddha Was Not Created by the Buddha” at the Holy Miracles Temple in Pasadena, California.

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Discovering the Root of Buddhism, Propagating True Buddha Dharma

This video produced in China over four years ago has now been published again by the Office of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III with English subtitles on their YouTube channel. It has several of His senior disciples...

March 14, 2023

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Wrong Views on Propagating the Dharma

This was originally posted on February 24, 2020, but I believe it needs to be reposted as the concerns on what can and cannot be conveyed via internet are still valid and it is a worthy companion to the excellent video...

March 13, 2023

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