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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), February 17, 2024

On February 17, 2024 we continued our study of DCB22- Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Text of the Heart Sutra-I by looking at examples of how Avalokiteshvara saves living beings, what is the mission and nature...

February 22, 2024

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What Are Saints or Holy Beings in Buddhism?

Holy Vajra Pill that flew to the Holy Vajrasana Temple, Sanger, California. The following is a section of my book Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous True Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform on just what is a saint or...

October 28, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), March 18, 2023

This Saturday, March 18, 2023, we finished our discussion of “ta” with a discussion on whether it is possible to attain sudden enlightenment including a discussion of what happened with the sixth patriarch of Chan/Zen...

March 19, 2023

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Kamalashila & His Three Bhavanakramas

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...

February 26, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 7, 2023

The Saturday morning discussions for LFBCS students started again at 9:00 am, January 7, 2023, on the title of the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra with the first of many sessions on “Prajna,” one of the most...

January 8, 2023

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What Else Is New at Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS), January 1, 2023

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...

January 1, 2023

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Register for On-Line Dharma Class on “Ten Erroneous Views on Vajra Masters” from the SAUMOL–June 7, 2020, 2-4 pm

We will hold our fifth class on the “128 Evil and Erroneous Views” from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation on June 7, starting at 2:00 pm PDT. This class will focus on certain erroneous...

June 1, 2020

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The Four Erroneous Views on Meditation from the “SAUMOL”

I started the class on May 17, 2020, with a brief overview of what the Supreme and Unsurpassed Mahamudra of Liberation contained and did not contain. I couldn’t post or discuss the actual dharma contained in this...

May 18, 2020

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New Class Starts May 17 on “The 128 Views-MEDITATION” from the “SAUMOL”

We will begin our study of the “128 Evil and Erroneous Views” from the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation (SAUMOL) next Sunday, May 17, 2020 starting at 2:00 pm. The Buddha Master has said...

May 11, 2020

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Register for the Great Dharma of Zen-CLASS II–May 10, 2020, 2-4 pm

We will hold our second class on The Great Dharma of Zen on May 10, starting at 2:00 pm, PDT. This series of classes is based on a discourse and dharma transmission from H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III given in 2013. Last...

May 6, 2020

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