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A. Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's Commentaries on Sutras
B. Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's Dharma Talks
C. Questions & Answers
1. The 18 Great Vows of the Venerable Master Hua
2. A Year-by-Year Record of the Life of Venerable Master Hua
3. A Year-by-Year Record of the Life of Venerable Master Hua and the Activities of Dharma Realm Buddhist Association
4. A Few Scenes of the Master Teaching in the West
5. Transformation of a Bodhisattva, Footsteps of an Ascetic Monk.
6. Dedicating His Life to Propagating the Buddhadharma:
The Translation of the
Buddhist Canon
7. White Universe
8. The Master's Principles: Freezing to Death, we do not scheme...
9. The Master's Unprecedented Matching Couplets Class
10. Chinese Lessons
11. Biographical Sketch of the Venerable Master Hua
12. A Recollection of my Causes and Conditions with the Venerable Yun
13. An Excerpt from the Venerable Master's Final Instructions
14. In Memory of the Venerable Master Hua
15. The Venerable Master Hua's Parinirvana photographs
16. Anniversary of Venerable Master Hua's Entering Nirvana
14th Anniversary of Venerable Master Hua's Entering Nirvana photographs
17. Photographs of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
18. Venerable Master Hua's Sharira-Slideshow
19. Venerable Master Hua's Photos-Slideshow
20. Back to the Source (an interview)
Buddhadharma
Sutra Texts:
The Flower Adornment Sutra
The Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra
The Shurangama Sutra
The Amitabha Sutra
The Earth Store Sutra
The Filial Piety Sutra
The Heart Sutra
The Hundred Parables Sutra
The Buddha Speaks the Ullambana Sutra
The Sutra in Forty-Two Sections
The Vajra Sutra
Sutras with Commentaries:
The Flower Adornment Sutra
Flower Adornment Sutra Preface
Flower Adornment Sutra Prologue
The Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra
The Shurangama Sutra
The Earth Store Sutra
The Heart Sutra
The Sixth Patriarch Sutra
Song of Enlightenment
The Sutra in Forty-Two Sections
Shastras:
The Shastra on the Door to Understanding the 100 Dharmas
(Text and Explanation)
Sanskrit:
Sanskrit Lessons on The Buddha Speaks the Amitabha Sutra
Dharma Talks:
Chan: The Essence of All Buddhas
Chan Dharma Talks
The Chan Handbook
Listen to Yourself: Think Everything Over (Volume 1 & 2)
White Universe
The Door of Mindfulness of the Buddha
Pure Land Dharma Talks
Guanyin, Guanyin, Guanshryin
The Land of Ultimate Bliss Is Right Before Our Eyes
A Sure Sign of the Proper Dharma
Vast and Proper Energy
Verse on Proper Energy
The Shurangama Mantra:
The Efficacious Language of Heaven and Earth
The 10 Dharma Realms are not Beyond a Single Thought
The Story of the Venerable Master Hsu Yun's Enlightenment
Dharma Master Hsuan Tsang
For Hundreds of Thousands of years, the Stew in the Pot has Bolied up a Resentment very Hard to Level
The Horror of Taking Lives and Eating Meat
The Mother of All Buddhas:
The Flower Adornment Sutra
Zero: The Great Bright Store of Your Own Nature
The Professor Requests a Lecture From the Monk in the Grave
Why did the Buddha Enter Nirvana?
Our Hearts Cannot Be Unhappy for a Single Day
When the Foundation is Established, the Way Comes Forth
Planting the Seeds of Buddhism and Cultivating Good Roots
Doing It Just Right is the Middle Way
The Ultimate Meaning of the Middle Way
The Buddhadharma Is in Practice, Not in Talking
Don’t Wait Till You’re Thirsty to Dig a Well
If You Wish to Become a Buddha, First Learn to be a Good Person
The Strength of Patience
The Lotus Flower
Taking Refuge with the Triple Jewel
Transmission of Precepts for the Deceased: A Dharma Assembly Hard to Meet in a Thousand Years
Audio:
Audio site on the Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua's Talks,
Lectures, and Recitation (English)
Audio files of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's Talks (Chinese)
"Windows Media Player" or "Quick Time" will play
the following Dharma Talks,
Recitation, Chanting, and Songs:
Dharma Talks by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (Chinese with English translation):
History of Making Images (9.75 MB)
An Exhortation to Make Images (2.94 MB)
The Benefits of Making Buddha Images (9.88 MB)
Materials for Images (1.43 MB)
Bowing as an Offering (6.34 MB)
Venerable Mahakasyapa (9.87 MB)
Master Ji Gung (4.86 MB)
Master Kang Seng Hwei (19.3 MB)
Offense of Shedding the Buddha's Blood (2.77 MB)
Bowing to Show Respect (13.3 MB)
Recitation:
Evening Recitation (English) 5.3 MB
Recitation of Namo Guanshryin Bodhisattva (583 kb)
English Songs:
Amitabha Praise (2.27 MB)
Gwan Yin Praise (3.22 MB)
Earth Store Bodhisattva Praise (6.81 MB)
Study Buddhism (6.63 MB)
American Buddhist Songs from the album on Awakening:
Way Out West (3.15 MB)
One Vehicle (5.57 MB)
Turn the Light Around (3.07 MB)
Great is the Joy (3.73 MB)
Tao (3.66 MB)
Magic Circle (3.62 MB)
Here Today Gone Tomorrow (4 MB)
Silkworm (2.83 MB)
My Body (2.45 MB)
American Buddhist Songs from the Paramita music CD:
It's called the City of 10,000 Buddhas (3.54 MB)
Dedication of Merit (2.40 MB)
Video:
Slideshows:
Guanyin Bodhisattva
Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's Photographs
Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's Sharira
Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's Sharira (smaller slide-frame)
CTTB Slideshow 1
CTTB Slideshow 2
CTTB Slideshow 3
CTTB Slideshow 4
Video on the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (from the Chinese site)
Videos and Talks on CTTB and the Founder
You Tube Video:
10,000 Buddhas Arrive Show (with English sub-title)
Fate (with English sub-title)
Making Vows (with English sub-title)
Other:
Q & A for Every Day. Insights: The Wisdom and Compassion of a Buddhist Master
Quotations of the Venerable Master Hua
Essay on Great Unity: Universal Propriety Brings Universal Harmony, Equality, and Justice
The Seven Kinds of Bowing
Chinese Lessons
The Confucian Analects
Taking Responsibility for Who We Are and What We Do
In Memory of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
The Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's Parinirvana photographs
Anniversary of Venerable Master Hua's Entering Nirvana
In Memory of Elder Dharma Master Gwang Ching
Journals:
Open Your Eyes, Take a Look at the World
Education:
Dharma Realm Buddhist University and Sangha & Laity Training Programs
Education
History of Instilling Goodness and Developing Virtue Schools
Pureland:
Records of the Pure Land
Enter the Lotus Land at Ease
A Lotus Flower Blossoms Under Each Step One Walks (Chinese & English)
CTTB:
At the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
A Pictorial Tour of the City of 10,000 Buddhas
Some Historical Photographs of the City of 10,000 Buddhas
Articles, Talks, Poems, and Photographs on the City of 10,000 Buddhas
CTTB's 30th Anniversary Celebration
CTTB Grand Opening 30th Anniversary Photographs
Spring at the City of 10,000 Buddhas
Summer at the City of 10,000 Buddhas
CTTB Lotuses
Autumn at the City of 10,000 Buddhas
CTTB Grapes
CTTB Organic Harvest
CTTB Walnuts
CTTB Apples
Winter at the City of 10,000 Buddhas
Reflections
The Moon
Cherishing Life
CTTB Signs
Tower of Blessings
360 degrees Panoramic photos of CTTB's Buddhahall
Three Steps One Bow from CTTB's Mt.Gate: 360 degrees Panoramic photos1
Three Steps One Bow from CTTB's Mt.Gate: 360 degrees Panoramic photos2
Ten Thousand Buddhas Jeweled Repentance
Sharing Experiences about the 2006 Bowing Session
Introduction to Buddhism
At the End of Life
Three Essentials of Those Close to Death
Precepts for the Deceased: An Inconceivable Dharma Door
Buddhism and Science: Probing the Boundaries of Faith and Reason
Tapping the Potential for Wisdom in Humankind
The Transformation of Consciousness into Wisdom in the Chinese Consciousness-Only School
Offering of Pure Vegetarian Foods
Vegetarian Food
My Dear Sister
Environmental Issues: A Buddhist Perspective
A Buddhist Perspective on Animal Rights
Why Genetically Engineered Food Should Be Labeled
Meat Eating and Global Warming
Filial Paragons
Trapped
Stories from, "The Love of Life"
Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Dharma Protectors, and the Four Heavenly King
Sessions:
Earth Store Recitation
Gwan Yin Recitation
Amitabha Buddha Recitation
Winter Chan Meditation
Avatamsaka Sutra Recitation
Chan Meditation
Events:
Honoring Elders Day
Cherishing Youth
Happy 2008
Happy Chinese New Year 2008
Happy 2009
Happy Chinese New Year 2009
Sangha and Laity Training Programs
12th Ordination, Transmission of the Complete Precepts
Dharma Realm Buddhist University
Dharma Realm Buddhist University and Sangha & Laity Training Programs
DRBU & SLTP Graduation Ceremony photographs
Buddhist Text Translation Society
Book Fair in the CTTB Administration Office Exhibition Hall, May 31 - July 6, 2009
Vajra Bodhi Sea
First Vajra Bodhi Sea issue
Instilling Goodness and Developing Virtue School
Verse on Proper Energy
Education
IGDV Founder
History of Instilling Goodness and Developing Virtue Schools
By the Teachers of IGDV Schools
Students' Corner
Instilling Goodness & Developing Virtue Schools
Other Languages
Vegetarianism:
Offering of Pure Vegetarian Foods
For Hundreds of Thousands of Years, the Stew in the Pot Has Boiled up a Resentment Very Hard to Level
The Horror of Taking Lives and Eating Meat
My Dear Sister
A Buddhist Perspective on Animal Rights
Why Genetically Engineered Food Should Be Labeled
DRBA 2007 Calendar with Vegetarian Recipes (pdf)
American Song from the Paramita music CD: American Beef Cow (3.31 MB)
Stories from, "The Love of Life."
Trapped
Cherishing Life
Vegetarian Food
City of 10,000 Buddhas
Built on the Six Guiding Principles
History and Background
Annual Events
Sessions
Anniversaries
Daily Schedule
News
Some Historical Photographs of CTTB
A Pictorial Tour of CTTB
Articles, Talks, Poems, and Photographs on the City of 10,000 Buddhas:
Opening the Light of the Ten Thousand Buddhas
At the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
First-Rate Air
Poem by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
Four Great Bodhimandas in the United States and Canada
A Sanctuary
A Spiritual Sacredness and a Light
Comments from the Humboldt State University Students
Reminiscences of My First Trip to CTTB
Living Joyfully and Sharing this Pure Land
The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
My Experiences at CTTB
Ten Thousand Buddhas Jeweled Repentance
The Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas’ Influence on Me
The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas’ Influence On Me; How It Changed My Life
Reflection on the Buddhist Knowledge Contest
Reciting the Avatamsaka Sutra, has Broadened my Mind and Vision
The Pleasure of Watching One’s Students Become Good Young People
CTTB Grand Opening 30th Anniversary Photographs
CTTB Lotuses
Cherishing Life
Vegetarian Food
Reflections
The Moon
CTTB Grapes
By the students of Instilling Goodness & Developing Virtue Schools: