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Professor Lin Chong-an: The Core Teachings of the *Dīrgha Āgama* and the *Dīgha Nikāya*
Selected Buddhist Studies Essays
ReadProf. Lin Chong-An: On the Teaching of the Dharma from the Perspective of the *Rahula Sutta*
Selected Papers on Buddhist Studies
ReadThe Four Aims Behind the Buddha's Diverse Teachings
When the Buddha taught in so many different ways, he had four aims in mind:
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: A Study on the Sutra Types and Compilation of the Ekottara Āgama
A Study on the Sutra Types and Compilation of the Ekottara Āgama
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: A Study on the Divisions of Teaching during the Buddha's Time and the Compilation of the Āgama Sutras
Selected Papers on Buddhist Studies
ReadMaster Gangxiao: Buddhist Lecture — Establishing Right View Through the Right Teaching
All of us live in ignorance, drifting along with its currents. Occasionally, we ponder where we're headed, get fired up for a while, and put in some effort. But lacking right view, we're like headless flies — buzzing around frantically, ...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: Theory and Practice of Zen Meditation, Lecture 3: The Sutra of the Six Similes of Life
Theory and Practice of Zen Meditation, Lecture 3: The Parable of the Six Creatures Sūtra 【Key Point】: Mindfulness of the Body 【Scriptural Basis】: Sūtra 1171 from the Saṃyukta Āgama
ReadThe Happiest Person in the World: Teachings by Mingyur Rinpoche
Imagine you live in a small room with only one window—locked, and so caked with grime that no light can pass through. You might assume the world outside is a bleak, dismal place, populated by all manner of grotesque creatures, because ev...
ReadVenerable Huaping’s Dharma Talk: Flickering Between Good and Evil Never Lasts — Only Repentance and Remorse Endure
Flickering between good and evil never lasts. Only repentance and remorse can endure. Only when you let go of fixating on good and bad can you abide in your true, unchanging nature. Instead, turn your mind only to reverence, faith, the t...
ReadZhuang Chunjiang — A Study of Tathāgatagarbha, Chapter 7: The Yogācāra Teaching on Tathāgatagarbha
The ālaya-vijñāna as retributive seeds emphasizes the defiled aspect; transforming defiled perfuming into pure perfuming, while manifesting the suchness that's pure by nature, is hard to explain fully. Tathāgatagarbha as basis emphasizes...
ReadDo Not Preach the Lotus Sutra to These Six Types of People
And again, Shariputra: do not teach this sutra to those who are arrogant and indolent, who cling to a view of a self; to ordinary people with shallow understanding, deeply attached to the five sense desires, who cannot comprehend it even...
ReadVenerable Master Da'an's Collected Discourses: The Splendor of the Proper Self and the Dependent Environment
A verse from the lower scroll of The Sutra of Immeasurable Life Spoken by the Buddha describes the fully manifest Pure Land of Sukhavati as the capital of the entire Dharma realm! Countless bodhisattvas from other worlds come to make off...
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