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Other Dharma Masters: The Path to Buddhahood (Colloquial Version by Master Hongzheng)
To ordinary people, the ocean is vast and boundless. Sentient beings take all worldly phenomena as truly "existent," and so cling to that notion of "existence," drowning in it with no way to escape. It is like falling into the ocean and ...
ReadVenerable Yinhai: A Generation of Eminent Monks Who Propagated the Dharma in America — Venerable Yinhai
In recent years, a publication called Dharma Seal Temple Audio-Visual News (《法印寺视听通讯》) has circulated in the United States. Rich in content and beautifully printed, it is distributed free of charge to Buddhist temples and communities acr...
ReadProf. Lin Chong-An: On the Teaching of the Dharma from the Perspective of the *Rahula Sutta*
Selected Papers on Buddhist Studies
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
ReadShowing the Dharma with the Tongue
A monk asked Chan Master Lingguan, "What is the Buddha?"
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
ReadDharma Master Gangxiao: The Profound Mystery of the I Ching — Psychology, Chapter 2: The Psychological Principle of "The Benevolent See Benevolence, the Wise See Wisdom": "Selecting the Information One Needs"
The Psychological Principle of "The Benevolent See Benevolence, the Wise See Wisdom": "Selecting the Information One Needs"
ReadKnowing the Suffering Nature of This Five-Aggregate Body-Mind Is the Very Virtue of the Dharma Body
“With each passing thought, impermanence holds sway; deluded feelings grow ever coarser—this is what we call sudden collapse.” Once the wheel of rebirth turns with a single deluded thought, and that momentum carries forward unbroken over...
ReadVen. Gangxiao: Dharma Lecture — Benefiting from the Buddha-Dharma
Benefiting from the Buddha-Dharma — People often say the Dharma is hard to encounter, yet here we are — we've encountered it. From here on, all we need is faith, receptivity, and practice. What does it mean to have faith and receive it? ...
ReadVenerable Gangxiao: Buddhist Lecture, What Is the Dharma?
What is the fundamental essence of the Dharma? What is the proper cause for taking up Buddhist practice? All Buddhas of the ten directions give the same answer to this question: the root of the Dharma is truth. As the saying goes, "What ...
ReadMaster Gangxiao: Lectures on the Mahāyāna One Hundred Dharmas Treatise, Part 7
Now, the sixth consciousness. What is it exactly? It's the function of discerning mental objects, and it depends on the faculty of manas. Note: the root the sixth consciousness relies on is the seventh consciousness, manas. Take this era...
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
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