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                   Photographs  | 
                
                                
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                  A Note from the Editor  | 
                
                
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                  A Road of Hardship  | 
                
                
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                  Why Did the Buddha Enter Nirvana?  | 
                
                
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                   A Brief History of the First Six Buddhist Patriarchs in China  | 
                
                
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                  The Life and Deeds of Venerable Master Hua  | 
                
                
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                   A few Scenes of the Master Teaching in the West 
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                   History of Gold Wheel Sagely Monastery 
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                  Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Giving Ensure an Enduring Peace  | 
                
                
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                   History of Long Beach Sagely Monastery  | 
                
                
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                  History of Avatamsaka Sagely Monastery  | 
                
                
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                   History of Avatamsala Hermitage  | 
                
                
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                  History of the Institute for World Religions at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery  | 
                
                
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                   A Calamity Is Averted and the Mountain Is Inaugurated  | 
                
                
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                   The Bodhi-Dhamma Center  | 
                
                
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                   Photographs / The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas  | 
                
                
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                   The Dharma Realm Returns to Its Source - The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas  | 
                
                
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                   Today, Riding in a Car Flying Back to the City  | 
                
                
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                   Pine Cone Dharma  | 
                
                
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                   The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas  | 
                
                
                
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                  Rain of Sweet Dew  | 
                
                
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                   CHAN - The essence of All Buddhas  | 
                
                
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                   The Dharma-door of Mindfulness of the Buddhas  | 
                
                
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                   Guanyin, Guanyin, Guanshiyin  | 
                
                
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                   The Shurangama Mantra - The Efficacious Language of Heaven and Earth  | 
                
                
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                   Quotations of the Venerable Master Hua  | 
                
                
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                  The Moon Reflected in a Thousand Rivers  | 
                
                
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                   Photographs / Memorial Ceremonies in Taiwan and Hong Kong  | 
                
                
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                   Memorial Ceremonies in Taiwan and Hong Kong  | 
                
                
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                   The Loss of a Noble Hero  | 
                
                
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                   My Extraordinary Teacher 
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                   The Venerable Master’s Teachings to Me 
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                   The Venerable Master Whom I Most Revered 
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                   Praise to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas 
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                   Glorifying the Venerable Master’s Spirit 
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                   In Memory of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua 
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                   In Remembrance of the Venerable Master 
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                   Do Your Best to Benefit the People 
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                   In Praise of the Venerable Master Hua’s Virtue and Kindness 
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                   The Venerable Master's Great Vow - Education 
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                   In Gratitude and Remembrance 
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                   The Venerable Master’s Gifts from the Heart 
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                   Timeless Teachings 
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                   Responding to and Saving Beings Everywhere 
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                   In Memory of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua 
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                   The Elder Monk Hsuan Hua, with Great Kindness and Compassion Rescues Sentient Beings 
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                   Lingering Memories of the Venerable Master 
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                   Remembering the Master’s Kindness 
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                   The Venerable Master Never Pauses to Rest 
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                   In Remembrance of My Kind Teacher 
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                   How Does the Master Cross Over Westerners? 
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                   Reminiscing about the Venerable Master 
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                   In Memory of the Venerable Master 
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                   Teaching by the Venerable Master 
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                   My Personal Experiences 
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                   In Remembrance of Our Master’s Kindness 
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                   In Memory of My Teacher - the Venerable Master Hua 
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                   Our Venerable Master 
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                   Looking Up to His Awesome Virtue - In Memory of the Grace of Our Teacher 
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                    The Great Kindness of the Venerable Master and His Virtue which Pervades the Ten Directions 
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                   A Letter to the Venerable Master 
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                   Self-Sacrifice Living Beings Even in Illness 
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                   The Master’s Great Vow - To Create Living Buddhas 
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                   If You Know to Turn Back from Confusion, It’ s Not Too Late 
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                   Bravely Giving Up the Rat Race 
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                   Applying the Buddhadharma in Daily Life 
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                   We Have to Be Patient while We Are Cultivating 
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                   In Boundless Gratitude and Remembrance 
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                   In Praise of the Venerable Master 
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                   The Venerable Master, Who Invisibly Protects Living Beings 
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                   To Reply the Master’s Kindness, We Must Be Vigorous 
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                   The Ability to Yield Is the Key to a Happy Family 
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                   The Kindness of the Venerable Master 
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                   When Confused, Our Teacher Saves Us 
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                   Reminiscing on Life and Sessions at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas 
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                   Our Master Is Always with Us 
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                   The Most Genuine Elder Monk 
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                   The Greatest Response Is No Response at All 
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                   Dharma that Transcends Time and Space 
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                   It’s Always Better to Be Cautious 
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                   A Gentle Reminder from the Venerable Master 
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                   Thoughts on Composing the Music for “White Universe” 
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                   An Old Man Carrying a Lantern 
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                   Put Your Mind to Good Use 
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                   In Memoriam of the Venerable Master 
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                   Our Greatly Compassionate Father 
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                   Affinity in the City - A Story of House Selling 
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                   An Interesting Recollection about Studying Chinese 
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                   Kindness That Is Difficult to Repay 
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                   The Spiritual Connection Between Minds 
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                   My Faith in the Master 
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                   The Proper Dharma Nourishes the Minds and the Five Precepts Dispel the Three Poisons 
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                   The Ability to Reach Millions 
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                   In Memory of the Kindness of Our Teacher 
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                   In Memory of Our Kind Teacher 
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                   My Experience with the Master 
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                   A Retrospect of My Experience of the Venerable Master 
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                   An Exhortation from the Master 
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                   In Remembrance of the Great Master 
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                   My Teacher’s Great Kindness to Me 
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                   The Master Is Gone, but His Dharma Remains 
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                   The Master and I 
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                   Doing the Buddha’s Work in a Dream 
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                   The Lion’s Roar of the Proper Dharma Stirs People’s Soul 
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