VAJRA BODHI SEA

November 1979, Mahayana 3004

Volume X - Series 23 - NO.114

      Measureless bodies and marks like a dust-mote sea-Six crossings, myriad deeds well-cultivated-Go from small to great. Bodhis great fruit-saving oneself, teaching others is the Prajna mind.

Issued in November, 1979. Copyright c by the Sino-American Buddhist Association.

VAJRA BODHI SEA (USPS 347-110) International Periodical #ISSN 0507-6986

Table of Contents

Bodhi Seal of the Patriarchs...Venerable Hui Wen, First Patriarch of T'ien T'ai School
Dharma Flower Sutra...A Parable, Chapter III
Flower Adornment Sutra Prologue
On Good and Bad...by Bhikshu Abhinyana
Book Review....by Prof. Jayatilleke
Photos....City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
News from the Dharma Realm
        -Opening of the Light
        -DRBU Sculpture Show
        -Rescue Concil Formed
        -Sixty-eight Day Fast
        -XIV Dalai Lama Visits U.S
Ch'an Cultivation... by Prof. Yu Kuo K'ung
Poem....by John Cort
News from the Dharma Realm
       -Letter from the President of Germany
Sanskrit Lesson..... by Bhikshuni Heng Hsien
Announcing Songs for Awakening
Prajna Paramita and Chinese Ch'an... by Bhikshuni Hui Wen
Excerpts from History of...Pai-Chang-Ch'ing-Kuei by Prof  R.S. Lee
Supposing These Questions Were Asked...by Upasaka Ch'eng Hsi
Photos....Pilgrimage by Bowing Monks and sculpture of Elder Master Hsu Yun
With One Heart Bowing to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas...Letters
Bodhi Mirror....Dharma Master Yung Hsieng
Bodhi Stand.....Upasaka Kuo Kung Kennedy
Buddhism in America....by Dharma Master Heng K'ung
Buddhist Holidays and Buddhist Texts publications


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