Users Guides
User Guides
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Guests to this site may view the descriptions and curriculum for the nine types of classes we offer in the Catalog of Courses. Some course lessons have green “PREVIEW” buttons that enable you to view or download an aspect of the content of a particular lesson that we are making freely available to anyone.
If you want to go deeper, you will need to enroll in one of the three membership plans offered by the Learning from Buddha Seminary as an Auditing Student, Buddhist Studies Student, or Xiuxing Seminary Student. We have also added a Xiuxing Practice Program that is part of the Xiuxing Seminary program, but focuses on actual Dharma practice. Clicking any of these student types tells you more about them. You may enroll in a free membership as an Auditing Student and listen to readings of preliminary translations of many of the Dharma Discourses and texts transmitted by H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. The Dharma should always be free, but we require a current email and information on how to reach you as we have vowed to let you know as soon as official or more current translations are available. The other two programs have a monthly enrollment fee which helps cover the ongoing costs of hosting this website and the recurring software costs to bring you structured classes with assignments, discussion groups, exams, and the like. Our facilitators, mentors, administrators and the people who maintain our website are all volunteers.
NOTE: We have changed the name from Learning from Buddha College and Seminary (LFBCS) to Learning from Buddha Seminary (LFBS) to reflect our focus more on the “practice” and not the “academic” side of our programs. It was always our intent to emphasize implementing what the Buddha taught more than just studying it. The academic focus was included when we were trying to help Chinese students obtain student visas to be able to do three year retreats that were envisioned to be a critical part of the program. Although that is still a goal, we now realize that we are not ready to do that at present nor were there students ready to do such retreats. We have modified our program to offer instead the Solitary Retreats of seven or thirty days. Perhaps the longer retreats can be added in the future. The user guides offered above using LFBCS still reflect the LFBS as the procedures, courses, membership requirements, etc. have not changed. We will not be offering Masters degrees for now at least, only certificates of completion.