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Venerable 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...
ReadMonk Gangxiao: ECT Therapy for Difficult Diseases — Chapter 4: The Conclusion of Near-Death Experiences
Suffering as Cure. Near-death experiences are the subjective accounts given, under the shadow of death, by people who suffered severe trauma or illness and unexpectedly recovered, and by people caught in potentially devastating situation...
ReadBudai Monk
```markdown In Mingzhou Fenghua County lived a Cloth Bag Monk: short and stout, with a belly remarkably large. His speech was quirky, jumping from one offhand comment to the next, and he slept wherever he laid his head.
ReadBuddhism Does Not Urge Everyone to Renounce Love and Enter Monastic Life
Buddhism doesn’t universally urge people to renounce love and enter monastic life, nor does it dismiss romantic love and marriage outright. The Buddha teaches this clearly in the Sutra of the Good Person (Sigalovada Sutta), explaining th...
ReadThe Novice Monk's Night Wandering
Chan education holds compassion as its mother, skillful means as its father, and teaches not through words but through quiet, lived example.
ReadOrdaining as a Monk to Repay One's Father's Kindness
During the Tang Dynasty, there was a man surnamed Xie whose father earned his living by fishing. One day while out fishing, he accidentally fell into the water and drowned. After his father's death, Xie pondered: "My father accrued heavy...
ReadHow Many Precepts Do Bhikkhus Have?
The wording of the bhikkhu precepts varies somewhat across the different Vinaya traditions; the main variations occur in the precepts bearing on deportment. As for the text of the grave precepts and the secondary grave precepts, although...
ReadSimilarities and Differences Between Bhikkhu and Bhikkhuni Precepts
The bhikkhuni precepts for the most part coincide with those of the bhikkhus, being drawn directly from the bhikkhu precepts. However, owing to the considerable physiological and psychological differences between women and men, a number ...
ReadOffering Vegetarian Meals to Monks on Behalf of the Deceased
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva further told the elder that, for beings burdened with such karmic offenses, there remains one more way their family members can help them after their passing: offering vegetarian meals on their behalf. Offering ve...
ReadHow Is the Identity of Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis Established?
Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis must certainly uphold the precepts of Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis. However, among the seven Buddhas of the past, the first three—Vipashyin, Shikhin, and Vishvabhu—did not codify or expound the precepts, yet they too h...
ReadThe Venerable Monk Respected Even by the King of Hell — Master Yongming Yanshou
Yongming Yanshou Chan Master is recognized as the 6th Patriarch of the Pure Land school. He lived in the late Tang and Five Dynasties era, a period of flourishing Buddhist practice in China. It is worth noting that six of the 13 Pure Lan...
ReadBringing Out the Mind of Renunciation
Master Long Shu was truly compassionate and deeply earnest, expounding on this point again and again from every angle. His sole purpose was to awaken within us a profound weariness of this Sahā world and a longing for the Land of Ultimat...
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