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Venerable Master Gangxiao: Lecture Notes on the Mahāyāna Treatise on the Hundred Dharmas, Part 5

Lecture Notes on the Mahāyāna Treatise on the Hundred Dharmas, Part 5

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Realizing That All Dharmas Are False Distinctions and Unreal

Like a heat-haze mirage—"heat-haze mirage"—not in the cold season, but in spring and summer when the weather warms up, that's when you see this "mirage." What is it? When the sun beats down on the earth, moisture rises from the ground. W...

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Master Gang Xiao: Lecture Notes on the Mahāyāna Hundred Dharmas Treatise, Part III

Now let's continue with the fourth category of mental factors—the afflictions (烦恼). There are six of them.

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Venerable Gangxiao: *Mahayana Treatise on the One Hundred Dharmas That Illuminate the Gate to True Nature* – Lecture Notes, Part 1

Before turning to this Mahāyāna Śata-Dharma Prakāśa-Mukha-Śāstra, I quietly took stock of how much our group already knows about the Yogācāra (Consciousness-Only) school. Not bad—everyone has a broad, systematic grasp of it. So we won't ...

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Professor Lin Chong'an: The Essence of the Dharmaskandha

Lin Chong-an

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Professor Lin Chongan: Heavenly Awakening and the Origins of the Buddhist Dharma

(Dharma Light Magazine, Issue 234, 2009)

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Emptiness Teaches Transcending All Phenomenal Marks; Non-Emptiness Teaches Being One With All Dharmas

The Middle Truth (中谛) is what the Tiantai school calls the perfectly sudden Middle Path First Principle Truth—the ultimate reality of the middle way. It clarifies that the wondrously luminous mind-nature of the Tathāgatagarbha is never f...

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Notes on Listening to Sutras

△ The Buddha taught us to rely on the Dharma, not on personalities. No matter how famous or learned someone may be, if their words don't accord with the Dharma, treat them as demonic speech and don't listen. △ The great purpose of the su...

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Guanyin's Dharma Gate

Venerable Wenzhu

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Commentary on the Contemplation Sutra in Four Sections

I begin by urging all gathered here, monastics and laypeople alike: Bring forth the supreme resolve and take refuge in the Three Jewels. Birth and death are so hard to tire of, And the Dharma so hard to rejoice in. Together, let us give ...

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Ge Ming: Why the Three Refuges Are Essential for Dharma Practitioners

The Three Refuges—taking refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha—are the most basic and essential gateway into Buddhist study and practice. Though outwardly a formal act, they reflect an inner transformation of heart, turning sc...

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Appreciating Chan Poetry: Every Green Mountain Is a Dharma Hall

A Farewell Verse

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