Venerable Master Hsuan Hua them Bach, whose real name is hidden From self is London. He was born in Song Thanh District, Songjiang Province of Northeast China, ie Manchuria.
His father named Phu Hai, specialized farming. Maternal Ho family, all eight children, five boys three girls;, and He is the youngest.
Lake pregnant vegetarian life, Buddha, did not interrupt. One night his wife dreamed that Buddha A-Di-Da embodiment exaggerated clarity thorough screening world, hell concussion. When you wake up, lady smell the incense magic around the room, and then lowering born.
He has just released immediately contact not stop crying for three days and nights. Is because sorrow for the suffering of the world of this Ta-Ba.
He lived in a very small rural, sparsely homes. So, until he was eleven years old he still has not seen the dead. One day, he and flood you in countryside field walking place. Suddenly he saw a baby, mouth shut, eyes closed, lying among the straw bundles on the sidelines. He called that the child did not respond, and touched there was no breath. And his confusing to ask your flood. Who knows said: "The baby's dead!" But he was surprised, do not understand what it means to die. Back home, he asked her, she says: "Everyone is, everyone has to die. Having old dead, who died, who died from an accident. No matter how rich or poor, regardless of Comments are doctors, agricultural, industrial, commercial, or office, everyone eventually dies. "
he asked: "If this is the case, no way to escape death?" Now in the ancient visitors each martyr, help answer that: "The only way to martyrdom, intelligent, enlightened self-interest, thoroughly reviews the character, the new touches the birth and death, transcendence of samsara, the director of the Enlightenment, infertility. "
But at that time he was a teenager, but for to visitors words, he deeply awakened, so he formulated the guidelines determined by martyrdom.
When He bring stories ordained table with the mother She says: "Exporting is a good story, but it is not easy to do. needed virtue, great volunteer force, the need to generate the Bodhi mind, can attain Supreme island. heart, there is a deep agreement, it is also consistent with the ancient dream. Now I am old, the date was nearing, you have independence. You should stay behind to take care of me mother; when I lost it, you practice, it is not late. "
He was obedient to his parents, and then every day by my mother Lord Buddha. Lord Buddha is complete, He bowed parents.
Day after day, winter dry spring, he respectfully take care of his parents as for the Buddha. Soon fame dutiful police station of the four directions, and then everyone called He is prison Bach (sons even their hospitality Bach).
In his 19 years old when his mother died; then he departed relatives up O Venerable temple Thuong Tri him and refuge, officially ordained and ordained. After that, he returned to where his mother to the grave hospitality for three years. During that time, he lived in a small thatched hut, meditation, recitation Mahayana sutras and reciting the Buddha A-Di-Da. A lot of times he sat and enter Samadhi Meditation, consecutive weeks of not leaving it ready.
One night, the nearby villagers panicked that his thatched hut burning fire. Pink flame kindled straight up in the air and thatched hut, bright as day. Many people ran to the tomb, they are: "The signal from the fire!" Hundreds of people in a summer village shell bag, brought buckets for fire fighting. However, when you arrive they find quiet thatched hut, the fire did not burn, and he shall still remain static, even in Meditation!
Once he was meditating, the suddenly have guests visited. Guests that, surprisingly, is the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng! German Patriarch taught him that in the future he will be going to the United States to the students, that in the West, he will get more fortunate who can spread the Dharma and he will boundless beings. Until the at Germany Patriarch from the special back then, he woke us, remember that faith of the Hui Neng, who was born, 1200 years ago. After World War II, he so du everywhere. Finally, spent more than three thousand miles away, he went to temple Men United, the great good knowledge of that time the Venerable Hsu Yun. Venerable was then 109 years old; recently saw him, Venerable immediately realized immediately his realization. Meanwhile, the Venerable said: "As the market!";, And he replied: "As the, as market!"
Then the Venerable Master Hsu Yun's sealed possessed him, and he officially became the ninth team of the regulatory threshold.
then, Venerable taught Him in the temple holding the Director of the Institute About the Law of Nam Hoa Temple.
In 1950, he retired from the temple, on the way to Hong Kong. Here, he lived in an isolated cave, not at current hybrid dust ceiling, continue implications. Soon, there is a wealth of up-travel from mainland China to Hong Kong from the victim, and they need your help. Finally, to the human condition, he left the cave, lecture halls and two temples, and help build many other ashrams.
During his twelve years in Hong Kong, he is a shining example, austerity, effort from the island, forgot himself for the Dharma. He has influenced countless female devotees credit, that they found the Bodhi mind, taking refuge in the Three Jewels, in favor of Buddhism.
In 1962, he came to San Francisco, USA. Here, where a small warehouse, he persevered practice in silence, waiting for the French coast propagate religion ripe. Then he calls himself "Chinese Tang Tomb" (Master in the grave), or Private Works (dead but still alive). The Buddhist understanding of his true spiritual practice are very moving and respectful support, offering him.
In 1968, he said the coast; He said: "A five-pointed flowers will bloom." That summer, he presided over the Conference lecture Shurangama 96 days. When the Conference ended, indeed the first American to please Him.
From there, he continued to preside over the Conference, explain the Heart Sutra, Earth Store Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, Sutra ethnic etc ... In 1971, he taught the of Mahayana supreme, it's the Flower Adornment Sutra.
Along with the teaching of Scripture, and preached, he also made countless merits of others. In 1976, he founded Ten Thousand Buddhas, the base platform to propagate Buddhism in America. In the City, he built the Tung regime, forestry, monks, nuns, education, creating karmic revenge win for the true practice.
Venerable Master Hsuan Hua 19 years old, his body died form. After fulfill the burial arrangements, he went to Wat Tam Coast at The Harbin (Harbin), officially ordained, O Venerable damage him. Soon after, he went to the grave of the body form the hospitality. That year, the German chickened Avalokitesvara, June 19, he in front of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of eighteen great vows:
"Dear ten
Buddhism,
With Tripitaka
France,
Past, present, made
up,
Vow to invite the
witness:
Freedom of
London,
Like An
Tu,
This child care
that:
Never demand blessings of
heaven, The
Along Thanh Van,
Pratyekabuddha
until excess Bodhisattva
rights.
The only refuge Supreme
TT
that
bodhicitta.
May the Dharma Realm and
beings,
Temporary
freezing
A recruiter maximum of
eight Temple of Love. "
1. Vowed that if one belongs to the Bodhisattvas of the ten directions three generations, in the end of nowhere, turning over the Dharma Realm, which is not the Buddha, I swear the director of the Enlightenment.
2. Vowed that if one of every Pratyekabuddha in three lifetimes, in the end nothing, turning over the Dharma Realm, which is not the Buddha, I swear I do not the Right Sense.
3. Vowed that if one belongs to the Thanh Van in ten three generations, in the end nothing changes throughout the Dharma Realm, which is not the Buddha, I swear I do not the Right Sense.
4. Vowed that if one belongs to God, who in the Three Realms, which is not the Buddha, I can not try Right Enlightenment.
5. Vowed that if one person in ten world without a Buddha, I can not try Right Enlightenment.
6. Vowed that if there is a God, He, A-tu-la is not a Buddha, I can not try Right Enlightenment.
7. Pray that the animal species in the world, if a species does not become a Buddha, I swear the Right Sense.
8. Pray that in the world of ghosts, if a man has not become a Buddha, I swear the director of the Enlightenment.
9. Pray that in the world of hell, if a man has not become a Buddha, I swear no the Right Sense.
10. Pray that the Three Realms, if those who had taken refuge with me, or is God, The, A-tu-la, flying, scuba diving, animals, plants, spiritual world, dragons, animals, ghosts, gods , which is not a Buddha, I swear the director of the Enlightenment.
11. Pray that all blessings optimistic that I deserve dedicating the experimental spectrum to all sentient beings in the Dharma Realm.
12. Wish that I alone deserve all suffering sentient beings in the Dharma Realm.
13. Pray that I will break the spirit of the popular, immersed beings Dharma does not believe, make them remove evil, good direction, his repentance edit, take refuge in the Three Jewels, and finally become a Buddha.
14. Pray that all sentient beings, to see me, to hear my name, have the mind Bodhi, quickly attain Buddhahood Path.
15. Prayer that always revered Buddhist teachings, and practice every day to eat a meal.
16. May the enlightened beings, around the life photography radical species.
17. My prayer in this life will attain human, Clerk, and the astronauts themselves.
18. May all every prayer planning acquire chronic-sufficiency.
Finally:
"We boundless
vows.
Endless sorrow vows
period.
Method countless
vows.
Buddhist Path supreme vows.
"
Institute of Translation
Sutras
* * *
1.
A translator must get themselves out of the search engine
fame.
2.
A translator must cultivate body and mind, to get rid of
arrogant behavior.
3.
A translator must be made, not self-praise, disparaging
others.
4.
A translator is not self-standards, which is a measure,
then lower the others by finding errors in their
work.
5.
A translator must take his mind
Buddha.
6.
A translator must use the French authorities to judge what
is truth.
7.
A translator must respectfully invited Cao Tang Venerable
ten prove translation.
8.
A translator must be happy to spread Buddhist teachings by
in Business, Law, his argument when the translation is recognized as
correct.
Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.MHDT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUNS=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.9/12/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).
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