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Las Vegas Meditation Retreat Video

Practicing “Moving Meditation”, Benevolence Temple, Las Vegas, NV. This is a video of practicing the “Moving” meditation at the Ru Lai Zheng Fa (Tathagata True Dharma) Meditation Retreat that we...

January 23, 2026

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Ven. Xu Yun (1840-1959), Accomplished Chinese Chan (Zen) Master and Patriarch

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...

January 22, 2026

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Photo of Hua Zang Si, San Francisco, California.

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H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha Day Celebrated, January 19, 2026

Hua Zang Si, San Francisco, California. Both Hua Zang Si, a Buddhist Temple in Sn Francisco, CA, the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Cultural and Art Museum in Covina, CA, celebrated H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Day with a...

January 19, 2026

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Buddhist Monks Walk to Washington, DC from Texas

Buddhist Monks on Peace Walk from Texas to Washington, DC. A group of roughly 19 Buddhist monks, accompanied by their rescue dog Aloka, are walking more than 2,300 miles (3,700 km) from Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana...

January 15, 2026

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Green Tara as the Yidam-REVISED AGAIN

Originally this article was published September 23, 2024. I have revised the information on P04X-Green Tara Dharma to better define the requirements. I am posting it as I decided during my retreat last fall that I would...

January 15, 2026

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), January 10, 2026

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...

January 10, 2026

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Meaning of “Ta” or Dhyana

Shakyamuni Buddha. Our recent discussion of “The Relationship between Dharma and Prajna” I think left as many questions as it answered. I decided to go back to earlier classes when the Buddha Master gave us...

January 10, 2026

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QUOTE-Reciting Mantras & Practicing Visualization

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...

January 10, 2026

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Photo of H.H. Dharma King Penor Rinpoche.

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H.H. Dharma King Penor Rinpoche-REVISED

The Palyul network of monasteries is the largest of the six main subsects within the Nyingma sect. There are more than four hundred of its branch monasteries spread throughout Tibet and its dharma centers are spread...

January 10, 2026

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QUOTE-Repaying 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 by H.H. Dorje...

January 10, 2026

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