D02.1-Buddhism for Beginners, Cultivating Good Fortune & Wisdom
This is the second part of a longer discourse entitled “Why You Learn Buddhism” expounded by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III to beginning students on Kuan Yin Bodhisattva’s birthday in China in the 1990s. It explains why you need both good fortune and wisdom to become enlightened in this lifetime. It also explains supernormal powers and other forms of good fortune as well as the six realms of existence. The first part can be found in “D02-Buddhism for Beginners, On Suffering.”
The curriculum videos are of Zhaxi Zhuoma Rinpoche reading a preliminary translation of the Dharma Discourse at an on-line class for the Lemonade Sangha on September 4, 2021 at the Holy Vajrasana Temple & Retreat Center.
Click on the “Curriculum” tab to review this course. If you have not registered for a membership, please click on “Membership” on the top menu bar to select your membership and enroll in this course. You are also required to complete the application form provided in course “G02-Spiritual Autobiography” prior to being admitted to either the BUDDHIST STUDIES or the XIUXING SEMINARY PROGRAMS. Click for detailed Users Guide under the “STUDENT MANUAL” in the website’s top menu bar for more information.
Prior to viewing this course, you are required to listen to the caveats provided in “PRELIMINARY STEPS” of Section 1 of the curriculum, which is a requirement for all preliminary translations of the Buddha Master’s teachings and then complete “D01(A)-The Supreme and Magnificent Dharma” and “D02(A)-On Suffering.”
General reference materials on Buddhism including common terms and a brief “Glossary” are also included at the end of the lessons for all beginning level courses.
