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Photo of Venerable Tsemang, Director of the Office of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III.

Buddha-dharma LFBS

Seven-Dharma System of Learning the Essence of Dharma Discourses-Updated

Yesterday, August 23, 2025 at our Saturday ZOOM discussion on DCB26-How to Realize Prajna, we discussed how to best proceed with this course which gives us the tools and teachings we need to implement all that we have...

August 24, 2025

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Buddha-dharma Events LFBCS

S01-SAUMOL Seminar finished December 28, 2024

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, Washington D.C., January 19, 2012. We finished our discussion today, December 28 , on Step Three of the Final Project for the Seminar on the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation...

December 28, 2024

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Photo of Holy Vajrasana Temple view looking East at the snow-capped Sierra Mountains.

Buddha-dharma LFBS

Revising the “Debate” feature of the courses offered at LFBS

Looking East across the pond at the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center. Snow-capped Sierras are in the background. I am in the process of revising most of the courses offered at Learning from Buddha Seminary...

October 8, 2024

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Buddha-dharma LFBCS Quotes

It Will Be Fruitless If One Does Not Listen to Discourses in Accordance with the Dharma Expounded in This Discourse—Parts I & II

H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III [The following combines my notes and understanding from listening to several English translations of the first two of three CDs on a discourse given by the H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III in 2000...

September 26, 2024

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What’s new at Learning from Buddha College & Seminary, October 1, 2022

We held our first debate for five of the students enrolled in D02-On Suffering course on Thursday, September 29, 2022. The Defenders presented their versions of the essence of this discourse and then answered questions...

October 1, 2022

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Learning from Buddha College & Seminary Being Tested, Revised

Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche reading the preliminary translation of a Dharma Discourse on ZOOM. The Learning from Buddha College & Seminary website has been launched—at least in beta-test mode. Those of you who registered...

February 9, 2022

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Example of accomplishment in the Five Vidyas by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III whereby Mist is permanently contained in a rock sculpture.

Buddha-dharma Events Miracles

Debates on the Five Vidyas

I first want to apologize for any confusion from our debates on the Erroneous Views Concerning the Five Vidyas that were part of yesterday’s class. Because there were only two somewhat similar “views,”...

August 10, 2020

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Disciples from China in the Abbot's study at the Holy Vajrasana Temple in Sanger, CA.

Buddha-dharma Events

Seven-Dharmas System for ZOOM–REVISED AGAIN

The following is a proposal as to how you could be a participant or auditor (observer) in the Seven-Dharmas System for ZOOM (SDSZ). PLEASE read the BACKGROUND and PURPOSE OF DEBATE articles first. I am sure we will...

July 20, 2020

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Buddha-dharma

Which form of dharma is more superior–esoteric (secret) or exoteric?

Some think that esoteric dharma is the highest dharma and that exoteric dharma is the lowest form of practice. This is not correct but rather an erroneous view. Erroneous View #51: THE VIEW THAT ESOTERIC DHARMA IS THE...

September 2, 2018

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