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C41(A)-Three Major Stages and Paths of Buddhist Practice Revisited & Revised

The Dorje Chang Buddha Lineage Refuge Tree with the Dharma Protectors from left to right: Yama, Hayagriva, Yamataka, Ekajati, Lion Vajra, Kalachakra, Vajrakilaya, Chakrasamvara, Mahakala, Guhyasamaja. We are now almost...

July 21, 2025

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What do Beginning Bodhisattvas Fear?

We started a discussion of what beginning Bodhisattvas fear last week and will continue this Saturday. You can join this discussion. You need to enroll in either DCB25 or C41 AND register with ZOOM. This was a...

April 13, 2025

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Class Held on What the Five Vidyas Are-Updated

Three color Buddha Nectar bestowed by the Buddhas in honor of the publishing of Imparting the Absolute Truth Through the Heart Sutra” by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Our discussion in 2020 on how this class...

March 1, 2025

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 1, 2025

Today we finished our discussion on Lesson 24 of DCB24-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra-III with the meaning of the line from the Heart Sutra that says “. . . no wisdom and also no...

February 3, 2025

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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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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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New Registration Required to Attend Sunday SAUMOL Readings Starting January 2025

View of Kings Canyon, East of Holy Vajrasana Temple. To start the new year Reba Jinbo is asking everybody to re-register for the Sunday Morning SAUMOL Reading so that he can update his mailing list. The Meeting ID will...

December 28, 2024

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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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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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What is meant by “The Dharma-Ending Age”?

Bamiyan, Cave in Afghanistan that held the Bamiyan Buddha that was destroyed by Taliban Islamic militia in 2001. I’ve updated this article again from 2022 to augment other articles posted now. In 2022, I added more...

December 25, 2024

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