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Master Da'an: After converting to Buddhism, can Taoism worship be possible?
Question: After converting to Buddhism, can Taoism worship be possible? Master Da'an replied: Converting to Buddhism means determining the spiritual destination and life value goals.When we received the Three Refuges, we solemnly promised: since we take refuge in the Buddha, we will no longer take refuge in the devils and heretics; when we take refuge in the Dharma
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05
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Master Da'an: Are you qualified to be reborn if you have deep karma?
Usually we often feel inferior, and we feel: "I have done things myself and thoughts and actions, and the three karmas of body, speech and mind are inevitably harmful to others and benefit ourselves, and have committed some evil karma."So I often worry: "I have created so many karma, so Amitabha Buddha is so happy
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05
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Master Da'an: "West people commit sins, and in which country do they chant Buddha's name to seek rebirth?「How to understand
Question: The "Platform Sutra" says: "White people commit sins, and what country do they want to be reborn in the world?" How do you understand it? Master Da'an replied: The "Platform Sutra" is a teaching of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng, a classic recorded by his disciples.The Sixth Patriarch inherited the family tradition of Master Bodhidharma, without establishing words, with the heart
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05
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Master Da'an: You must "know the greatness" and "see the far-reaching"
【Those who know that they are small but not big, and those who see near but not far are the common parts of sentient beings.】———The Quotations of Zen Master Chewu First propose the narrow and inferior characteristics of sentient beings on the cognitive level: "knowing that the small but not the big, seeing the near but not the far."The wisdom that we sentient beings should
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05
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Master Da'an: Pure Land is the method of practicing by the highest aptitude
【It is safe to practice to recite the Buddha's name.It's really a break (Zen Master ),It is called the Pure Land Dharma, which directly leads to the upper and lower arbitrariness and leads to the middle and lower arbitrariness.It is also said that the sect below the cave is all committed to practicing secretly, and to see the Buddha through Pure Land, which is particularly simple to the sect.Also, it is Buddha and ancestor, and in teaching and meditation, all of them are purity.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05
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Master Da'an: How to educate children about Buddhism
Question: How can a disciple educate his children in Buddhism and let parents who do not believe in Buddhism be misunderstood as indoctrinating religious consciousness in their children? Master Da'an replied: As a teacher in the preschool class, out of compassion, he should first do the Tao to the children in the class.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05
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Master Da'an: How to change the destined fate?
Question: A person’s destiny is destined, and reciting the Buddha’s name can change his destiny.But some people have some supernatural powers and witches. They can really change their destiny. As Buddhist disciples, how can they defeat the spells imposed by the witches and grasp their own destiny? Destiny is destined.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04
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Master Da'an: Will Amitabha Buddha's guidance appear by demons at the time of death
Please see below.The third question: "I would rather protect you than the demon".Someone asked, will Amitabha Buddha appear in front of him at the moment of death? Many people have this problem now.Just like when I asked a question yesterday, I didn’t dare to have the intention of making a vow to see the Buddha.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04
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Master Da'an: Your wealth belongs to the five families
This life is all about having a dream. In the dream, we often don’t know it is a dream. We regard everything in the dream as very real. So we keep dreaming in the dream, and there are dreams in the dream, and there are dreams in the dream, and dreams are trapped in the dream.So this dream makes us more and more awake
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04
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Master Da'an: How to develop a true and unfair compassion
Question: Master, how can you develop true and unfair compassion? Master Da'an replied: Compassion is the seed of becoming a Buddha. This heart of great compassion without cause and great compassion with one body is a sentiment that sublimates from emptiness. It is not easy to be true and unfair.I am not able to prove it
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04
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Master Da'an: The happiness of monks who lost all their losses in the Pure Land
One of the characteristics of the monk who lost all the loss is that he has realized that "people and me are empty", no longer the concept of "me", and of course there is no concept of "me".If we go to the Western Paradise and have a concept of "I" and "I have all", that's amazing
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04
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Master Da'an: How to ask Amitabha Buddha to solve the difficulties in the world
Question: I often chant the name of Amitabha Buddha to pray for problems such as illness and unsuccessful exams, but none of them seemed to be of no use.Some people say that it is because I did not do my sincere heart when I prayed and chanted. I feel that the hearts of ordinary people and sentient beings are very distracted, and I usually recite the Buddha's name and seek rebirth.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04
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Master Kuanyun: Where to go in life Chapter 4 Pure Land Gate 4 Pure Land Sutra
The Pure Land Sutras and the Pure Land Sect’s important sutras and treatises established include the “The Buddha’s Sutra of the Amitabha Sutra”, the Buddha’s Sutra of the Amitabha Sutra, the Amitabha Sutra and the Amitabha Sutra of the Amitabha Sutra, the rest of the “Avatamsaka Sutra, the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Practice and Vows” and the “Lingyun Sutra of the Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva’s Recitation of the Buddha’s name.
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-03
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Master Kuanyun: Where to go in life Chapter 4 Pure Land 1 Maitreya Pure Land
The fourth chapter of the Pure Land, Maitreya Pure Land, the Pure Land method can be divided into Maitreya Pure Land and Amitabha Pure Land.But the Pure Land that is generally mentioned now refers to the Pure Land of Amitabha.The Pure Land of Maitreya refers to the fourth Tushita Heaven among the six heavens in the desire realm. The lifespan of Tushita Heaven is about 4,000 years, and the sky is equivalent to one day and night.
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-03
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Master Da'an: Buddhist thoughts of Master Yanshou, the Sixth Patriarch of Pure Land Sect, Hangzhou Yongming
Master Yongming gathered Mahayana Buddhism into one body, inherited the idea of the Three Sects of Cimin and integrating various sects and returning to the Pure Land, advocated the interpretation of the ancestors and Buddhas and the Zen teachings, and compromised the Dharma, the Three Treatises, Huayan, and Tiantai, and integrated them through the integration of Zen.The master is strict in his laws and is eager to be reborn, and he is
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03
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Master Da'an: The eight characters have been determined, why can the fate be changed?
Someone asked: People’s horoscopes are destined, and reciting Buddha’s name can change their destiny.But some people have some supernatural powers and witches. They can really change their destiny. As Buddhist disciples, how can they defeat the spells cast by the witches and grasp their own destiny? Destiny is
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03
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Master Da'an: How to recite the Buddha's name to the concentration and uninterrupted
Question: How to keep reciting the Buddha's name to concentration? Master Da'an replied: When we know that the merits of Amitabha Buddha are incredible, it is good to recite the Buddha's name every day, but it is normal to have delusions, distracting thoughts, troubles, and interference every day.Ordinary people have delusions
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03
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Master Da'an: Examples of chanting Buddha's name to cure diseases and cure diseases
Reciting Buddha's name can also cure diseases.Don’t we have a high medical expenses now? When we get sick every day, we must know that Amitabha is the supreme great doctor! The six-character great name is Agata medicine.What does Agata medicine mean in Sanskrit? It is the treatment of all diseases.Other prescriptions are one prescription to treat one
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03
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Master Da'an: Can you repent after breaking the Five Precepts?
Question: If you take the Five Precepts, do you have to seek repentance in front of the Buddha? Can repentance be purified? Master Da'an replied: The Five Precepts, especially the first four precepts: killing, stealing, adultery, and lying, belong to the fundamental precepts.You have already suffered in front of the Buddha and in front of the master
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03
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Master Da'an: The life story of Master Brahma Sheng'an, Hangzhou, 11th ancestor of the Pure Land Sect
Master Sheng'an (1686-1734 AD ),His name is Shixian and his courtesy name is Siqi. He is from Changshu, Jiangsu. He was born in a family of scholars for generations.The master has never eaten meat since he was a child, and he has ambition to be extraordinary when he was young.The father died early, and the mother Zhang knew that her son had good roots, so she ordered him to come out.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03
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Master Da'an: What are the methods that can effectively enter the Buddha's knowledge and views?
Believers: Master, what are the methods that can effectively enter the Buddha's knowledge and views? Master: The original intention of the Buddha's teachings is to enable us sentient beings to enter the Buddha's knowledge and views.What is Buddha's knowledge and insight? It is spiritual knowledge without thoughts.To eliminate the confusion of views and thoughts, we will obtain all wisdom; to eliminate the confusion of dust and sand, we will obtain the wisdom of the Tao;
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02
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Master Da'an: How to recite the Buddha's name to be considered as deep faith and sincere wish
Question: Under the influence of daily busy work, life and various concerns, what level should those of us who are "poor" in life have to reach the level of faith and wish of chanting Buddha's name to be considered to be a deep faith and sincere wish? Please give me compassion.Master Da'an replied: I am convinced and sincerely wish to achieve
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02
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Master Da'an: That is, the ordinary mind leaves the debate for the Buddha's mind
Believers: Nowadays, various Buddhist struggles are strong, not only between different methods, but also within the Pure Land Dharma. There are many different opinions on the same issue, and they all say that they are based on the scriptures or ancient sages. What's going on?
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02
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Master Da'an: Are the Buddhist rituals done in the temple, such as salvation, repaying longevity, and repaying debts in good fortune?Can we do it?
Believers: Are the Buddhist rituals done in temples such as salvation, returning to life, and paying for good fortune and debts in good fortune? Can we do it? Master: What is Buddhist rituals? Buddhist rituals can enable sentient beings to realize the Buddha nature that is inherent in our own nature, return home on the way, and escape from life and death
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02
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Master Da'an: How to cure drowsiness and distraction from reciting Buddha's name
Question: I like to study the scriptures and teachings, but I can’t put down the volumes and enjoy it with relish;When reciting the name of Buddha, it is either drowsy or restless. What is the reason for this phenomenon?How to deal with it?Master Da'an replied: Most cultural people who study Buddhism are happy to study doctrines, and they always want to learn from the scriptures.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02
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Master Da'an: How to understand "A clear pearl thrown into turbid water" and "It's in vain to shout out the throat"
Question: "The clear pearls are thrown into the turbid water, and the turbid water has to be clear.The Buddha's name is thrown into a chaotic mind, and the chaotic mind has to be Buddha" and "The mind is distracted and it is in vain to shout it out." How do the master correctly understand it? Master Da'an replied: The previous verse was revealed by ancient sages
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02
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Master Da'an: Do people who chant Buddha's name also eat meat?How to solve it
Question: Some people also chant Buddha's name, but they still eat chicken, duck, fish and meat. How should they solve it? Master Da'an replied: First of all, don't set the threshold too high.He has just learned Buddhism, and as long as he is willing to chant Buddha's name, you must praise him.You can't say, "If you recite the Buddha's name, you can't
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01
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Master Da'an: Master Yongming who moved the emperor
【When Master Yongming was born in the ancient Buddha body, he took advantage of his wish to be born.But he was able to speak and teach and write books to spread.I was also afraid that the scholars would be confused and their interests were chaotic, so I tried my best to say a brief verse of four materials.It can be said that he has promoted the principles of the Great Tibetan Buddhism and was a teacher who was wrongly involved.Let scholars in eighty words suddenly
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01
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Master Da'an: How to eliminate karma
Eliminating karma is also an important subject in Buddhism, but we must have a basic understanding: that is, the evil karma we have committed over countless kalpas, and if this evil karma is large, it cannot be accommodated in the entire void.This is in the "Samuhadravatae's Practice and Vows"
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01
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Master Da'an: What is the principle that chanting Buddha's name can eliminate the serious sins of life and death in eight billion kalpas?
Question: Amitabha! What is the principle that chanting the Buddha's name can eliminate the serious sins of life and death for eighty billion kalpas? Master Da'an replied: It seems that you still have doubts! The sentence in the "Amitabha Sutra" is born from the lower level. This sentence is undoubtedly true.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01
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Master Da'an: Is there any direct relationship between practicing asceticism and rebirth?
Practicing asceticism has no direct relationship with rebirth, but it has an indirect relationship. This is because rebirth in the Pure Land is not reborn by asceticism, but by faith, aspiration and chanting the name and chanting the Buddha's power.In fact, the Pure Land method of chanting Buddha's name is a happy method of practice, and it is not
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01
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Master Da'an: How to deal with bad thoughts in your heart
Question: Do you have any bad thoughts in your heart? Are you guilty? How to suppress them? I have many lustful thoughts, which arise unconsciously. What can I do to cure them? Master Da'an replied: We have all kinds of delusions and distracting thoughts in our hearts, and these delusions are more lustful thoughts.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01
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Master Renhuan: How do those who practice Pure Land practice on a daily basis?After placing your life, you can only be reborn in the Pure Land if you have a sincere thought of rebirth without changing.
Do you need to do a career after chanting Buddha’s name with your destiny? Buddhists should understand that the world is people-oriented, the family is people-oriented, and people are fate-oriented.The purpose of learning Buddhism and the purpose of giving up life is to ensure that life becomes infinite life.It's not like we're going to hand over our lives.
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-29
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Master Pure Land Dharma: Why do you often encounter ghosts?
Before I learned Buddhism, I often encountered ghosts, and I always encountered them several times a month.Why does this phenomenon occur? Because I have the idea of killing in my heart.When I was sixteen or seventeen, I went hunting every day and brought my prey back every day, so I often went on the road
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-27
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Master Pure Land Dharma: How much meat you eat in this life, you will definitely pay it back in the future.
1 The first thing people in this world do is to commit the sin of killing! Why do they commit the sin of killing? Because of greed.People in the world are greedy for delicious food, and they are three inches of tongues, and I don’t know how many sentient beings have killed? 2 Greedy is a common problem for all sentient beings! Most people are greedy for delicious food, and for the sake of three
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-27
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Master Pure Land Dharma: The enlightened person does not obsess with cause and effect
The enlightened person does not obsessess the Pure Land Dharma Master (I) 1 A fellow practitioner wants to know what the two sentences "not obsessed with cause and effect" and "not obsessed with cause and effect" mean.This is a case by Master Baizhang of Zen.In the case, the wilderness that Master Baizhang passed by
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-25
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Master Pure Land Dharma: This is a great merit that Mr. Jiang did in his life
Nowadays, people in this world are selfish, and they do things that harm others and do things that harm others and benefit themselves.In fact, harming others will never benefit yourself. If harming others can really benefit yourself, you will be worth it.Think about it, Qin Shihuang in ancient China destroyed the six kingdoms at that time
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-24
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Master Pure Land Dharma: Think about the situation when my father left, I was so cold that I stood up.
If you can’t work when you are old, you have to do things in your next life. This life is over. What should you do in your next life?If you don’t recite the Buddha’s name, you will have to reincarnation.Think about whether there are good or evil thoughts and words in this life?Is it a merit or a mistake?Reflect on it, even if
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-23
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Master Pure Land Dharma: This old man has not planted good causes for five hundred lifetimes, so how can he become a monk?
In the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha told us a story.When the Buddha was alive, an old man asked to become a monk with the Buddha.In the past, one must have attained the fruit of the monks. At the lowest possible limit is that there are countless people who have attained the fruit of Sotapanna, Stuka, Arhat, and Bodhisattva.
Pure Land DharmaTime: 2025-06-20
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Master Da'an: All beings have to rely on "faith and wish" to convey Amitabha Buddha.
The first article is the intersection of bitterness and joy. We often say the joy of life: life has ups and downs, and life is full of joys and sorrows.The pursuit of happiness is what everyone hopes for.What happiness does life have?The title of the Golden List is happiness, success in career is happiness, and the wife is virtuous and the children are filial
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15
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Master Da'an: "The Pure Land Religion Course" Rebirth in the Border City
Among the five original translations of the "Amitabha Sutra", there are two sutras that teach the cause and effect of rebirth in the border area: one is the sutras of the three generations of rebirth, which shows that the causes and practices of rebirth in the middle and lower generations of rebirth, respectively, the situation of rebirth in the corresponding causes and practices of rebirth in the middle and lower generations of rebirth.this
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15
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Master Da'an: How to understand chanting Buddha's name, chanting Dharma, and chanting monks
Layman: Master, how do you understand chanting Buddha's name, chanting Dharma, and chanting monks? Master Da'an: This is mentioned in the "Amitabha Sutra". You can hear all kinds of sounds from the Pure Land of the West, the sounds of the eight merit waters, the sounds of birds singing together, and the sounds of the instruments singing without drumming in the void.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15
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Master Da'an: The Pure Land is not a mirage of illusion
In the Pure Land Dharma, you do not need to see the Tao. If you take the Buddha's seeing the Tao as your own, start with faith.You must never stand on the narrow knowledge and view of ordinary people and think that you cannot see the Western Paradise: "Where is the Western Paradise? Can you take it out and I will take it out and take a look
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15
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Master Da'an: "The Pure Land Religion Course" method of chanting Buddha's name is sincere and dedicated
After understanding the cause and virtue of the name of Amitabha Buddha, we should chant the name without hesitation.A three-year-old child can recite the name of Amitabha, but it is difficult for an eighty-year-old man to hold on to the name of Amitabha forever.Therefore, it is better for those who practice pure karma to understand
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15
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Master Da'an: Master Yin Guang's life and thoughts
1.Master Yin Guang in his life (1861-1940 AD ),He was named Shengliang, his courtesy name was Yin Guang, and his alias was Changsha Monk, and he was from Heyang, Shaanxi.When he was young, he followed his brother to read Confucian books, he was very responsible for inheriting Confucian sages, and responded to the advice of Han and Ou to repel Buddhism.Later, I was sick for several years and realized the past and suddenly changed my mind.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14
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Master Da'an: "The Pure Land Religion Course" to be reborn with chanting Buddha's name, the middle path is then the path (10)
The Pure Land Dharma flows out from Amitabha Buddha's great compassion and great equality mind, and all sentient beings with sharp and dull senses are saved from them.Among the general methods, the sutra of all beings with great principles should not be admired by all beings. For example, the Buddha gave a speech on the "Avatamsaka Sutra" in the Great Blessings and Broad Buddha, and at that time the highest virtues
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14
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Master Da'an: "The Pure Land Religion Course" intercepts the life and thoughts of Master Jili
1.Master of Life Intercept (1628-1682 AD ),His taboo was Xingce, and his family surname was Jiang, and he was a native of Shunkang in the early Qing Dynasty.His father's name is Quanchang, and he is an old scholar in Yixing. He is a friend of Master Hanshan.Three years after Master Hanshan passed away, one night, Quanchang dreamed of Hanshan entering the bedroom,
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14
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Master Da'an: Master Shandao's life and thoughts
1.Master Shandao (613-681 AD )Born in the ninth year of Daye, Sui Dynasty, Sizhou, Anhui Province (A talk about Linzi, Shandong )A man becomes a monk at a young age.Looking at the master's life virtues and deeds, there are two outlines: (1)After returning to the Pure Land of Heart, Master Dao practiced "
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14
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Master Da'an: "The Pure Land Religion Course" Master Huiyi's Life and Thoughts
1.Master Huiyi in his life (1599-1655 AD ),Named Zhixu, nicknamed Xiyou, nicknamed Babudao Ren (He said: In ancient times, there were Confucianism, Zen, laws and teachings, but the Taoist dared not dare; now there are Confucianism, Zen, laws and teachings, but the Taoist is disdainful.Therefore, it is called Eight Bu )。Vulgar
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14
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Master Da'an: Track of the Theory of Pure Land Buddhism in "The Pure Land Religion" (17)
The practice of Pure Land belief is progressing in parallel with the translation of Pure Land scriptures and the study of Pure Land theory.As a foreign heterogeneous culture, the Pure Land method of chanting Buddha's name will inevitably rub, collide with local Confucian and Taoist cultures until it is integrated.Recite the Buddha's name
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14