Mahayana

[Amita]

http://www.drbachinese.org/online_reading/dharma_talks/kaishrlu-1/volume1-ce-03.htm

Talk given in 1958: The Land of Ultimate Bliss Is Right Before Our Eyes

Edited June 1, 2023 by Amita

[Amita]

Master Hua is a Bodhisattva, so he taught many sorts of virtue in addition to varieties of Mahayana.  Many thought of him as a Chan Master, yet that was only part of his greatness.

Anyway here is a sketch of his life plus some of his teachings on Chan and more.

http://www.cttbusa.org/listen/listen2.asp.html

[Amita]

"With the full moon this evening, we mark the celebration of the Buddha's birth, awakening, and parinirvāṇa, known in Tibetan as Saga Dawa Düchen. This offers us all a wonderful opportunity to remember the Buddha with joyful practice!

We consider 84000’s vision and work to be a unique celebration of the Buddha’s awakening, and on this auspicious day, we are very pleased to release our newest publication: The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines."

https://read.84000.co/translation/toh9.html#toc

Summary:

"The Perfection of Wisdom in Twenty-Five Thousand Lines is among the most important scriptures underlying both the “vast” and the “profound” approaches to Buddhist thought and practice. Known as the “middle-length” version, being the second longest of the three long Perfection of Wisdom sūtras, it fills three volumes of the Kangyur. Like the two other long sūtras, it records the major teaching on the perfection of wisdom given by the Buddha Śākyamuni on Vulture Peak, detailing all aspects of the path to enlightenment while at the same time emphasizing how bodhisattvas must put them into practice without taking them‍—or any aspects of enlightenment itself‍—as having even the slightest true existence."

[Piney]

On 6/1/2023 at 4:15 PM, Amita said:

Master Hua is a Bodhisattva, so he taught many sorts of virtue in addition to varieties of Mahayana.  Many thought of him as a Chan Master, yet that was only part of his greatness.

Anyway here is a sketch of his life plus some of his teachings on Chan and more.

http://www.cttbusa.org/listen/listen2.asp.html

A Bodhisattva is a "ideal" you try to achieve. He's yours and nobody else's and would never claim such.

[Amita]

Not sure if I posted a version of these Mahayana vows or aspirations before,  but this version has comments on key underlined words:

https://thubtenchodron.org/2001/06/extraordinary-aspiration/

[Amita]

On 6/1/2023 at 1:15 PM, Amita said:

Master Hua is a Bodhisattva, so he taught many sorts of virtue in addition to varieties of Mahayana.  Many thought of him as a Chan Master, yet that was only part of his greatness.

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Part of the Oral History Project where disciples of Master Hua recall his presence in over 50 videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVHCL9srqrM

 

Edited June 10, 2023 by Amita