Saturday’s discussion (February 25, 2023) may have been our most impactful yet–or at least it was for me. I could see the “ahas” as we gained insight into the true meaning of “prajna,” especially the third and...
Kamalashila (740-795) Kamalashila was a great Indian scholar and the main disciple of the Abbot of Nalanda Monastery, Shantarakshita. Shantarakshita (725-788) is considered the last of the great Indian Buddhist scholars...
Our ZOOM discussion on February 18 finished Lesson 4 and began Lesson 5, continuing our study of the three types of prajna from DCB21 on the components of the title of Imparting the Absolute Truth through the Heart...
Yesterday we discussed the middle-view state and how to avoid the “two frightening extremes” of existence and non-existence. We also considered what the rainbow body was and how to achieve it and other topics. Next...
Bronze statue of Je Tsongkapa. As I was developing the second lesson in C41-Three Principal Stages & Paths of Buddhist Practice, I realized a major omission. Je Tsongkapa included a basic introduction into...
The Saturday morning discussions for LFBCS students started again at 9:00 am, January 21, 2023, on the title of the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra with the third of many sessions on “Prajna,” one of the most important and...
The following is a reposting of an article from this blog originally posted on September 21, 2020. I have added a paragraph to include the works of other masters that we should study and include other related links...
Two new courses—D07.1(A)-Concise Discourses and D07:2(A)-Discourses by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III Answers Questions from Western Disciples—from 2006 and 2009 are available for all beginning students. Questions range...
I mentioned in my last blog that I had added another biography to the curriculum at the Learning from Buddha College and Seminary. It is on Lady Niguma (10th to 11th centuries), a Tibetan Matriarch of the...
A zoom discussion was held last Saturday, December 17, on DCB21 Lesson 2 that provided H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s introduction to the title of the Prajna Parami-ta Heart Sutra and how it would be studied. In the...