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Roadmap Video to C41(A) and Different Buddhist Lineages

A map and a link to another article on how the major traditions spread throughout Asia have been added at the bottom of this article. The above graphic shows truncated sources of the various Buddhist lineages and the...

January 10, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 4, 2025

We started our discussion today of the mahayana state of prajna expressed in the words “…no suffering, no accumulation, no cessation, and no path; . . .” from the Heart Sutra. The following is a...

January 10, 2025

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QUOTE-Mahayana State of Prajna expressed in Four Noble Truths

The unreal is the real. The real is the unreal. The holy and the mundane are fundamentally one and the same. It only takes one thought that leads to awakening to awaken to the truth that samsara is nirvana. In this...

January 10, 2025

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Photo of Vulture Peak (Gridhrakūta) in Rajgir, India.

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Five Time Periods of Shakyamuni Buddha’s Teaching

Vulture Peak (Gridhrakūta) in Rajgir, India. At our class discussion on August 24, 2024, we discussed the second and third sentences from the Prajna-Paramita Heart Sutra: “Sariputra, form does not differ from...

January 10, 2025

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G03(A) & G03-Evolution of Buddhism-EXPANDED

Major Buddhas. The LFBCS courses G03(A) and G03 provide an introduction to Buddhism, the Buddhas, and what Buddhas do, with a historical look at how Buddhism came to this world and evolved over the various cultures and...

January 9, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 28, 2024

We finished S01-Seminar on the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation today, December 28, with those participating giving their abridged project reports on what they had learned from this seminar...

December 28, 2024

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QUOTE-The Four Noble Truths

. . . no suffering, no accumulation, no cessation, and no path.” That means the four noble truths of suffering, accumulation, cessation, and path inherently do not exist. They do not exist in the truth of Buddha...

December 28, 2024

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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 SAUMOL course. All participants used the ZOOM...

December 28, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 22, 2024

There will be one more session for our S01-Seminar on the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation, December 28 at 9:00 am on the Final project/report. You can catch up by watching the videos of the earlier...

December 24, 2024

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), December 15, 2024?

There will be three more sessions for our S01-Seminar on the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation, December 21 at 9:00 am, December 22 at 1:00 pm, and December 28 at 9:00 am. The Sunday session on the 22nd...

December 14, 2024

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