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Master Gangxiao: Buddhist Lecture — Establishing Right View Through the Right Teaching
All of us live in ignorance, drifting along with its currents. Occasionally, we ponder where we're headed, get fired up for a while, and put in some effort. But lacking right view, we're like headless flies — buzzing around frantically, ...
ReadVenerable Master Gangxiao: Buddhist Lecture — Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels
We already mentioned earlier that in this world of suffering, only our Buddha World-Honored One can compassionately save and liberate all sentient beings. So now that we have the affinity to study Buddhism, what exactly should we do? We’...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: An Explanation of the "Verse of Three 'Is'" on Dependent Origination
An Explanation of the "Verse of Three 'Is'" on Dependent Origination — Lin Chong'an
ReadGe Ming: Buddhists, Unwholesome Teachers in the World, and the Three Refuges
In the Buddha’s teachings, the Three Refuges are the deep, abiding orientation of a practitioner’s heart toward the path of liberation and awakening. It’s not blind attachment to internal or external groups, nor a lifelong pledge of alle...
ReadVenerable Gangxiao: Buddhist Lecture on Contemplating Life
Today I'm going to ramble on a bit about life. Of course, life is a huge topic, so for a little monk like me to ramble on about it feels a bit out of place. And in front of all of you, it feels even more absurd—many of you are my parents...
ReadContinued Records of Guanyin's Spiritual Inspiration
Lay follower Mao Lingyun
ReadThe Ascetic's Revenge
This story appears in the Abhidharma Mahāvibhāṣā Śāstra. There was once a king who kept company with a scholar of great renown and high social standing, though he never gave the man any official title—in today’s terms, he might have func...
ReadThe Great Mengshan Food Offering — A Buddhist Ceremony for the Benefit and Liberation of Beings Across the Six Realms
The Mengshan food offering is aimed at relieving wandering hungry ghosts. In the Song dynasty, there was a master known as Budong (also called the Ganlu, "Sweet Dew," Great Master), who lived on Meng Mountain in Sichuan. Moved by compass...
ReadGuanyin Bodhisattva Is in Your Home
Buddhas and bodhisattvas appear in this world to teach in countless ways, and they very often ground their teaching in filial piety. There is a well-known parable from mainland China about a mother and her son. The mother was widowed you...
ReadYan Poluo, the Man Who Looked Like a Hungry Ghost
Any Buddhist practitioner—including every disciple of the Buddha—who fails to understand how good and evil deeds ripen into their results, and who goes on committing verbal wrongs while practicing the Dharma, becomes the most pitiful of ...
ReadProfessor Lin Chong'an: An Inquiry into the *Madhyamakāvatāra*'s Refutation of a Substantively Existent Self
Lin Chong'an
ReadProf. Lin Chong'an: The Rope and the Snake Analogy
Lin Chong-an, 2007
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