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Photo of Baoguang Temple, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

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What Professor Huang Huibang (Hui Hui) Learned from Hearing “Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra”

Baoguang Temple, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. At the end of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha’s Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra, Professor Huang Huibang, an elderly disciple of His Holiness also known as...

January 25, 2026

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS), August 9, 2025

We will be starting weekly discussions on P10-The Great Dharma of Zen Practice next week on Tuesday evening–August 19 at 6:00 pm Pacific Time. You will need to BOTH enroll in P10 at Learning from Buddha Seminary...

August 12, 2025

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Photo of Main Altar at Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center, Sanger, California.

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New Brochure on the Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center, Sanger California

Main Altar at Holy Vajrasana Temple and Retreat Center, Sanger, California. We are almost out of our temple brochure and with many coming in June to see the Holy Vajra Poles and Bodhi Tree, I felt I needed to update and...

May 23, 2025

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QUOTE—Great Nirvana of No Abiding

To reach the great nirvana of no abiding, one must have thoroughly realized the prajna of emptiness being marvelous existence, truly recognized the state of supreme prajna, and not only realized the emptiness of...

May 3, 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-Liberation

Only prajna will cause one to not descend.

March 24, 2024

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QUOTE-Cultivating Goodness

The true-thusness of dharma-nature being intrinsically empty and tranquil, how could there be form? However, karma binds and entraps the body that is a provisional combination of the four great elements. One can be...

December 20, 2023

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Quote-The Vows of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III

I bear all of the negative karma and karmic offenses committed by living beings; I give to you all of the good karma and merit that I plant. H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of...

December 10, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), July 15, 2023?

We finished Lesson 4 on the Intermediate Stage or the Path of Renunciation on July 15 with a discussion of what it means to become accomplished; why the three disciplines of precept observance, dhyana, and wisdom are...

July 19, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), June 24, 2023?

Lesson 4- the Intermediate Stage or Path of Renunciation continued with a discussion of why Buddhists were not interested in going to “heaven.” Buddhists consider the heavens as a reward for living a good...

June 26, 2023

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