Practice
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Who Is Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva?
Mahāsthāmaprāpta is the Chinese semantic translation of the Sanskrit Mahās-thāmaprāpta, with the phonetic rendering "Mohe Nabo".
ReadMaster Sheng Xu: A Brief Biography
Master Sheng Xu, whose Dharma name is Mingsheng, is a member of the Zhuang ethnic group from Guangxi, born in 1986. He centers his practice on Pure Land Buddha recitation, and lives out the vow to “embody the Buddha’s great compassion an...
ReadIntroduction to Venerable Yin Liang
Venerable Yin Liang was born in Tianjin in 1974. His dharma name is Tianji, his courtesy name is Yin Liang, and he is also known by the alias Abbot of Lanshan Studio. He serves as the abbot of Tianjin Leshan Miaoju Monastery and Wuyi Mou...
ReadLayman Zhuang Chunjiang: Basic Understanding of Learning Buddhism — Chapter 7: Mahayana Bodhisattva Practice, Section 2: The Great Bodhisattva Practice
Based on when the relevant scriptures and methods emerged, the Mahayana bodhisattva path likely began to take shape three or four centuries after the Buddha's passing. What's more, certain Mahayana ideas and teachings don't appear in the...
ReadMaster Gang Xiao on the Twenty Verses on Consciousness-Only: The Nineteenth Verse
dān zhà jiā děng kōng yún hé yóu xiān fèn yì fá wéi dà zuì cǐ fù yún hé chéng
ReadMaster Gangxiao: Shared Acceptance in Buddhist Logic
Gang Xiao
ReadMaster Gangxiao: On the Branches of Buddhist Logic
Gang Xiao
ReadMaster Gangxiao: Interpreting the Ancient Commentaries on Xuanzang's *True Consciousness-Only Syllogism*
Master Gangxiao: Interpreting the Ancient Commentaries on Xuanzang's True Consciousness-Only Syllogism
ReadProfessor Lin Chongan: A Q&A on Meditation
1 Q: What is Chan meditation?
ReadUpasaka Zhuang Chunjiang: *Fundamental Understanding of Buddhist Practice*, Chapter 7: Mahayana Bodhisattva Practice, Section 1: Bodhisattva Practice and the Development of Mahayana Buddhism
Shakyamuni Buddha was a fully liberated being. As the early Buddhist scriptures record, among the three types of liberated beings—the Buddha, the Pratyekabuddha, and the Arhat—only the Buddha is described as having attained anuttarā-samy...
ReadLay Buddhist Zhuang Chunjiang: A Basic Understanding of Buddhism, Chapter 6: The Stream of Noble Ones
In Buddhist practice, there's a milestone that matters more than most: "non-retreat" (avaivartika). What does it mean? It means you've entered a stage of practice so stable and so settled that from this point on, your progress can only c...
ReadLay Buddhist Zhuang Chunjiang: A Basic Understanding of Buddhism — Chapter 4: Understanding the Self, Section 2: The Development of Our Cognition
We often say that affliction and suffering arise from the body and mind’s reactions to what we encounter. More precisely, they emerge as our physical and mental responses develop in the moment we meet and make sense of a situation. The s...
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