by Huang Guolin
The Inconceivability of the Venerable Master

Liberating Life in Vancouver Harbor      (You may need Acrobat Reader to read)

Respecting Life, Benefiting Living Beings.

by Ronald Epstein
It is very easy to get the feeling here in our local community that ...

by Shi To Lun
I am a monk from the Changbai (Eternally White) Mountains, a Chan cultivator from the Black Waters.

by Chao Shana
What kind of world is this world of ours today?

Whoever wants to become a Buddha first has to be a good person.

The Chan HandBook    

The goal of investigating Chan is to understand the mind and see the true nature.

by Great Master Yinguang
To talk about protecting the country and ending disasters, we must know how to protect the country and how to end disasters.

by Thomas H. Maugh II
Humans have a remarkable capacity for committing violence against themselves and others...

by Dharma Master Yin Guang
Death is the greatest tragedy in the world and yet no one on earth can avoid it.

by Ron Epstein
Hinduism and Buddhism Compared

An Essay By Great Master Lianchi Zhuhung
People who eat meat often make the excuse that it is natural to do so, that people were meant to eat meat.

by Michael Ohlsson
In this paper I will examine the Buddhist diet - its restrictions, significance, symbolism, and the reasons behind these guidelines.

by Heng Yuen
I wish you, John and the kids a happy new year, and that 1994 will bring meaningful changes to your life.

by Ronald Epstein
I want to relate to you two striking examples of animals acting with more humanity than most humans.

by Dharma Master Thich Thien Tarn
The Last Rites

by Ronald Epstein
After having been invited to the United States by some disciples from Hong Kong, the Master established a Buddhist Lecture Hall in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1962.

by Ronald Epstein
When Dharma Master Heng Shun called to invite me to speak, he didn’t tell me that I was supposed to speak on the interior life.

by Ronald Epstein
The first series of doctrinal arguments in the Shurangama-sutra (T. 945) is concerned with the Buddha's refutation of seven hypothetical locations for the mind proposed by Ananda.

Compiled by Ven. Phra Acharn Maha Boowa Nyanasampanno
The Venerable Acharn's help to his disciples was not limited by time and place.

Compiled by Ven. Phra Acharn Maha Boowa Nyanasampanno
One time, when the Venerable Acharn was wandering with two disciples, the Venerable Phra Acharn Maha Thongsukh of Wat Suddhavas in the town of Sakol Nakhorn...

by Bhikkhu Ajahn Amaro
Historically there have been differences of opinion about the relative merits of Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism and, if you read much of the literature, they would seem to be quite divergent in their approaches toward Buddhist practice—yet there also seem to be some tremendous affinities.

by Ron Epstein
Almost daily, the elderly Chinese American woman hurried into the San Francisco temple, bowed to the Buddhas, put her offering of food on the altar, lit incense, tidied up the temple and rushed out the door.

by Ron Epstein
Buddhism teaches that whether we have global peace or global war is up to us at every moment.

by Ron Epstein
Buddhists call Buddhism the Buddha Dharma: the Dharma, a collection of methods for getting enlightened, taught by a Buddha, a Fully Enlightened One.

by Ron Epstein
The topic of this panel is "Biotechnology: Boon or Bane for Spiritual Development."

by Oldy But Goody
When the Master set out for America, he had a 10-day stop-over in Japan.

by Cecilia (Guojie) Chen
The Venerable Master knew only that there were others; he didn't know that he had a self.

by Joseph Wang
I met the Master for the first time on the Buddha's Birthday in 1987

by Xiao Hongqing
In the Saha world, people have worked hard to gain the material comforts we now enjoy.

by Rev. Heng Sure
This article is random thoughts about the future of the United Religions' Vision in China.

by Shi Heng Hsia
June 7 will always be an unforgettable day of sadness. A holy and virtuous monk of this age manifested the stillness

by Cuixia Zhu
I used to be a "Buddhist" who craved petty bargains, didn't like to do anything for others, and loved to eat meat.

by Reverend Heng Sure
The Buddha wanted to repay the kindness of his mother (who died after giving birth to the Buddha).

by Lee Eagleson (Guo Li)
At times of real need, this (outline of a heel) is a tangible and very gentle reminder of where I should be going.

by Heng Sure
Eastern people have always known and revered Sages as rare, evolved beings whose wisdom and powers are the stuff of legend.

by Oldy But Goody
When the Master set out for America, he had a 10-day stop-over in Japan.

by Terri Nicholson
My husband Alan and I have been disciples of the Venerable Master for over 25 years.

by Shi Heng Tso
The Master said, The most important thing in cultivation is to benefit living beings.

by Oldy But Goody
In l962, when the Venerable Master entered the United States for the first time, Buddhism's monastic tradition was virtually unknown to Americans.

by Shi Heng Gu
Tonight we have started listening to Venerable Master's commentary on the fifth chapter of the Dharma Flower Sutra, "Medicinal Herbs." This has always been my favorite chapter in that Sutra, a beautiful and profoundly moving analogy.

by Hong Guoshun
My eldest son asked me, "Mom, our Teacher can cure and save so many people when they are afflicted with nasty illnesses or when they are faced with death.

by Helen Woo
With the Venerable Master, no matter how simple are the words he speaks, as long as we can really bear them in mind and use them well, the benefit is endless.

by Editorial Department
Sherry and Kenton Hyatt drove out from Cambria to bring the monks (Bhikshus Heng Sure and Heng Ch'au whose bowing pilgrimage took them up the coast of California,...

by Editorial Department
The news of the Western Bliss Gardens was to be the resting place of the extremely efficacious and miraculous image of Amitabha Buddha that the Master had brought with him from Manchuria.

by Chu Guolian
The news of the The eminent Sanghan Venerable Master Hua completed the stillness in Los Angeles on June 7, 1995.

by Chu Guolian
The news of the Elder Master Venerable Hsuan Noble Hua's completion of stillness has shocked many people.

by Stella Tam
Everyone knows that one of Venerable Master's vows is that wherever he goes, that place will be peaceful and without trouble.

by Hector Wong
Many people are concerned about how the Venerable Master left. Many of the Master's disciples came to him to seek responses because they heard the Master had spiritual penetrations.

by Wang Zhiyang
If you could hear the Venerable Master's words on that day.... In the crowded Dharma assembly, there was a layman who started lighting a cigarette.

by Guozhu Zhang
Although I took refuge with the Triple Jewel ten years ago, I have been lax in my cultivation, and thus I have been floundering in the sea of karma for many years.

Excerpt from the Sutra of the Buddha Repaying Kindness through Great Expediency
During the Dharma-Semblance period of Vipasyin Buddha, in the country Varanasi there lived a rebellious official, Rahu, who plotted to overthrow the king.

by Anonymous
Xiaoli, married and now in her forties, has an eight-year-old son. I went to her house to see her, because she had breast cancer and doctors had diagnosed it as in the last stage.

by Heng Ch'au
We spent New Year's Eve sitting in ch'an on a muddy road next to a cauliflower field. I had this thought: A new year, a new mind. There is no time, there is no measure.

by Bhikshuni Heng Yi
I am Heng Yi. After our return from Malaysia and Taiwan, many people have asked me why I do not go up to the podium to speak about this trip to Malaysia and Taiwan. So tonight I will briefly express my thoughts.

by Zhao Shan
What kind of world is today's world? The Venerable Master Hua once described it this way: .

by Gong Tongzuo
Many years have passed since the Venerable Master brought Buddhism to the United States..

by Su Meiyue
All men are my fathers, and all women are my mothers..

by Shi Zhenchan , Prajna Abbot's Hall, Jade Buddha Monastery
In asking "What did the Venerable Master Hua teach?" one seems to step into shoes which are more than several sizes too large.

by Snjezana Akpinar, Chancellor of the Dharma Realm Buddhist University
In asking "What did the Venerable Master Hua teach?" one seems to step into shoes which are more than several sizes too large.

by Professor Cheng Xi
Ordinary people may think that an outstanding person is one who only pays attention to great matters.

by Li Weiguo
I had the fortune of visiting the Venerable Master Hua twice in the United States. Coincidentally, the first time was on July 5, 1993, and the second time was on July 5, 1994.

by Dharma Master Heng Sure
Many people have sat here in the last few days, and will continue to do so, talking about their memories of their teacher, talking about the Master's contributions to education, to translation and Sutra lecturing, propagating the Dharma, creating the Sangha, making Way-places, and so on.

by Shi Zhiding
The Elder To Lun (his title), whose Dharma name was An Tse, in the 1950's was given the official transmission as the Ninth Generation Patriarch of the Weiyang Sect, by the late Venerable Elder Master Hsu Yun, and was given the certified name of Hsuan Hua (Proclaiming and Transforming).

by Shi Hengle
The following events happened before I left the home-life:

by Zhang Baihua
On the Lunar New Year’s Day in 1994, the Venerable Master Hua made a New Year’s announcement at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. He said very gravely,

by Shi Kaizheng, written at Hongfa Monastery, August 15, 1995
Several decades ago, the Venerable Master travelled from America back to Taiwan to propagate the Dharma.

by Bhikshuni Heng Yi
I am Heng Yi. After our return from Malaysia and Taiwan, many people have asked me why I do not go up to the podium to speak about this trip to Malaysia and Taiwan.

by Sam Jing
When we set eyes upon him, our hearts palpitate in fear.

by Tian Jixun
When the Venerable Master returned to Taiwan to propagate the Buddhadharma in 1989, Mr. and Mrs. Wu Boying also joined the group.

by Venerable Ajahn Sumedho of the Amaravati Buddhist Centre in England
Whenever I would come to the United States, I'd always make a point of coming to see Venerable Master Hsuan Hua wherever he was.

by Ven. Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda
I was deeply saddened to learn of the untimely demise of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua which occurred on 7th June 1995.

by Wang Jinping, Vice-director of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China
I was startled to learn that the Venerable Hsuan, Noble Hua, peacefully manifested the stillness in Los Angeles on June 7, 1995 (the tenth day of the fifth lunar month in the year of yihai)

by Ven. Dr. K. Sri Dhammananda
From the Buddhist point of view, marriage is neither holy nor unholy.

by Dharma Master Heng Sure
All of you who have come to attend the Memorial Ceremony in Praise and Recognition of the Venerable Master Hua's Kindness have probably been drawn here by the Master's eighteen great vows, just as iron filings are drawn to a magnet.