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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.
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.
ReadLay Practitioner Zhuang Chunjiang: A Basic Understanding of Buddhism, Chapter 8 — Taking Refuge and Receiving Precepts
During the Buddha's time, lay followers would often hear the teachings directly from the Buddha or from enlightened Arhats. Profoundly awakening to the Dharma, their doubts would dissolve, giving rise to a firm, unshakable resolve. They ...
ReadWhat Are the Threefold Pure Precepts?
The term "Three Categories" (Sanju) is a Buddhist concept referring to the categorization of sentient beings into the assembly of the rightly destined, the assembly of the wrongly destined, and the assembly of the undetermined, thereby r...
ReadThe Merits of Keeping the Precept Against Taking Life and the Faults of Breaking It
The precept against killing: here, the term "killing" refers to severing the life faculty of sentient beings. The precept serves as the remedy, while killing is the object of remedy; this term is established by jointly referencing both t...
ReadSangha Property Is the Most Complex Among the Three Jewels' Properties: Understand the Differences to Avoid Breaking the Precept Against Stealing
▲ The Commentary on the Precepts (Jie Shu) states: "Within Sangha property, there are four distinct categories.
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...
ReadIf You Want Middle-Grade Upper Rebirth, You Cannot Abandon the Precepts
The Middle Grade of Upper Birth arises from the causes and practices cultivated during one's lifetime. This primarily refers to a person of the Shravaka disposition who receives the precepts and begins with the merit of keeping them. One...
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 ...
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