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Volume 1 of the Mahayana Mahasamghika Vinaya Ksitigarbha Ten Wheel Sutra 1 Preface : Good man! Even if someone were to: of great Bodhisattvas such as: who are the foremost among them, for a hundred kalpas. It would not compare to someone who, for the time it takes to eat a meal: to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and [ ]
Master Kuang Chin / Guang Chin is known as the Fruit Monk as he basically mainly ate fruits. He s supposed to be a real life Bodhisattva in the flesh that was reborn on Earth who was originally from Amitabha Buddha s Pure Land. So these tips apply to any and all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas names [ ]
When speaking to the Kalama people, in the Buddha s famous teaching of the Kalama Sutta about critically thinking for yourself, not accepting things at face value and questioning source material, the Buddha also has a different section about the 2 questions of: Now remember, taking into account the Buddha s audience the Kalama people were [ ]
Now this is a gentleman who was a normal, ordinary man who is alive and well right now he works a mundane job, lives with his family. In fact, his English isn t as good as many people who are reading this blog right now. He practices reciting the name of Amitabha Buddha regularly and [ ]
In the Chapter The Destiny of Hells in the Shurangama Sutra, the Buddha talks about 10 things that cause us to fall into the hells when we die. It s basically the karma from doing 10 habits that create these hells: What are the 10? So false accusations are involved in MULTIPLE habits in the [ ]
The Mahaparinirvana Sutra gives us the parable of the Prince s Secret Royal Sword that no one else has ever seen. Only the Royal Family the Prince and the King himself know that this precious sword looks like. All of the King s men can only speculate oh the sword looks like this [ ]
Dragons are called Naga s in Sanskrit language. If we read the Buddhist scriptures, we will read about Dragons. And if we read the biographies of great monks we will hear about their encounters with dragons. In Theravadan Buddhism, there are Paritta chants to the Nagas for protection. In Mahayana Buddhism, for example in Chapter [ ]
How to Learn the Great Compassion Mantra in Sanskrit Part 3 Final Part before the Mantra Proper Tasmai Namaskrtva imam AryAvalokitesvara bhasitam Nilakantha nama Hrdayam vartayisyami Sarvatha sadhakam subham ajeyam Sarva bhutanam Bhava marga visodhakam So this part of the final part of the introduction in the mantra before the proper mantra The timestamp [ ]
How to learn the Great Compassion Mantra in Sanskrit Part 1: Invocation of the the Triple Jewel and Gwan Yin Bodhisattva The Great Compassion Mantra/Nilakantha Dharani starts like this: Namo Ratna Trayaya Namah Aryavalolkiteshvaraya Bodhisattvaya Mahasattvaya Mahakarunikaya Explanation Namo Ratna Trayaya So the first line of the Great Compassion Mantra means Homage to the [ ]
How to learn the Great Compassion Mantra in Sanskrit -Part 2 The 5 Sarva… …Karaya’s How to learn the Great Compassion Mantra in Sanskrit Part 2: The 5 Sarva Karaya s So the Great Compassiona Mantra starts with the Invocation to the Triple Jewel and to Gwan Yin Bodhisattva. Immediately after the Invocation Immediately after that, [ ]