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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), April 26, 2025?

We have changed the name from Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS) to Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS) to reflect our focus more on the “practice” and not the “academic” side of our programs. It was...

April 27, 2025

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QUOTE-Dream-Thinking

Dream-thinking also refers to the four kinds of dreaming minds that are produced from the internal consciousness—arising, abiding, changing, and delusion. These four kinds of dreaming minds are like ropes that bind...

April 27, 2025

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QUOTE-Ultimate Nirvana

The ultimate nirvana that is referred to here in the Heart Sutra means becoming a Buddha. Once one forever leaves the four kinds of dreaming minds, one ends the five underlying grounds of affliction. Expounding the...

April 27, 2025

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Photo of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. , Washington D.c., January 19, 2012.

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English Sources of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III’s Dharma

Download brochure on major Dharma teachings of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III with links to those available in English.

April 26, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), April 19, 2025?

We finished Lesson 29 of DCB25 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. The following are some of the...

April 21, 2025

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QUOTE–How do we eliminate fear?

When we realize the prajna wisdom that there is nothing to attain or obtain, we know that all the phenomena I just mentioned that living beings greedily crave are unattainable and unobtainable. We then have no fear at...

April 21, 2025

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Photo of Pond at Holy Vajrasana Temple with nesting goose on island, Sanger, California.

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Dharma Classes Planned for Sanger and Hesperia, California

Pond at Holy Vajrasana Temple with nesting goose on island, Sanger, California. If you want to hear a reading of a preliminary English translation of one of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s most definitive...

April 21, 2025

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Photo of Bodi Tree at Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California.

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Bodhi Tree Gets a Makeover

Bodhi Tree at Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California. Our Bodhi Tree (Ficus religiosa) or Bodhigara is growing in a different direction or I should say directions. Monday morning a local arborist and bonsai expert...

April 21, 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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QUOTE-What is the meaning of “fear” in the Heart Sutra?

. . . the word “fear” refers to all of the afflictions and sufferings of cyclic existence that hinder the six sense bases and mental state of an ordinary being. It refers to views one is attached to that...

April 13, 2025

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