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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), May 17, 2025

There will be no ZOOM class on either May 24 or 31, but will resume on June 7 at 9:00 am. We finished Lesson 32 of DCB25 using “All Buddhas of the three times rely on prajna-paramita and thereby attain anuttara...

May 24, 2025

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QUOTE-Different Species & Realms

Buddhas and Bodhisattvas also do not distinguish based on species or realms. It does not matter whether you are a human or a ghost. They equally bestow Their bodhicitta upon anyone who is a living being, a being with...

May 24, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), April 12, 2025?

We continued DCB25 with lesson 29 using “…Bodhisattvas rely on prajna-paramita, and thus their minds have no hindrance. Because there is no hindrance, they have no fear“ from the Heart Sutra...

April 13, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 25, 2025

Today we started our discussion on Lesson 24 of DCB24-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-III with the meaning of the line from the Heart Sutra that says “. . . no wisdom and also no attainment.” The...

January 26, 2025

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Spirits dancing around the Holy Vajra Poles after a retreat at the temple.

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What Is Our Proper Relationship to Devas, Local Deities, Spirits, and Ghosts?

Spirit beings or orbs dance around four of the vajra poles as seen in this photograph taken after a meditation retreat at the Holy Vajrasana Temple. In 2018 we held a series of ZOOM classes on Learning from Buddha...

October 19, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), August 31, 2024?

We finished Lesson 15 of Learning from Buddha College & Seminary course DCB23 with a discussion of the three doubts of Bodhisattvas and related principles. Part of this discussion follows: What are the three kinds...

September 5, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 9, 2024

On March 9, 2024 we continued our study of DCB22- Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart Sutra-I by exploring more deeply how Avalokiteshvara observed her intrinsic nature to become...

March 11, 2024

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Holy Vajra Pill that flew to the Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California.

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Comparison of the Various Traditions of Buddhism and Other World Religions–Characteristics & Results

Holy Vajra Pill that flew to the Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California. This second chart, also from by forthcoming book (CLICK for more), provides basic information about what the other religions and the four...

October 28, 2023

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What Are Saints or Holy Beings in Buddhism?

Holy Vajra Pill that flew to the Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California. The following is a section of my book Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform on just what is a saint or...

October 28, 2023

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Photo of Kuan Yin Bodhisattva of the Southern Seas, Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, MO.

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Dharma Class on Shantideva’s “Bodhisattvacharyavatara” will continue on December 19, 2021

Guan Yin Bodhisattva of the Southern Seas, Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, MO. On October 3, 2021, we finished reading the text of Shantideva’s “A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life.” It was decided...

October 24, 2021

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