VAJRA BODHI SEA

October 1980, Mahayana 3005

Volume XI - Series 25 - No.125

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Heavenly maidens scatter flowers-an offering to the practicer. Sternly maintaining the moral code, one miraculously penetrates the spiritual. If one can further return the light and contemplate at ease, it won't be long before he reaches great and honored enlightenment.

A Monthly Journal of Orthodox Buddhism

Issued in October, 1980. Copyright c by the Sino-American Buddhist Association, Inc. Mahayana 3005. Volume xi series 25, number 125.
Vajra Bodhi Sea (USPS 347-110) International Periodical # ISSN 0507-6986.

English Table of Contents

Bodhi Seal of the Patriarchs...12th T'ien T'ai Patriarch Master Yuan Hsiu

Dharma Flower Sutra..... Chapter Four

FLOWER ADORNMENT PROLOGUE

Bodhi Mirror..... Bhikshu Seck Boon Keng

Noble Eight-fold Path...by Bhikshu Heng K'ung

Three Steps One Bow..letter from Bhikshus Heng Sure and Heng Ch'au

Bodhi Stand....Upasika Kuo Gao

Sanskrit Lesson...by Bhikshuni Heng Hsien

Flower Adornment Essay on the Gold Lion...translated by Bhikshu Heng Shun

NEWS FROM THE DHARMA REALM
   News from China--The Five Eyes
   Earth Store Bodhisattva Session
   Awakening
   Exhibition of Northern California Women's Sculpture at CTTB

Cover: Great Compassion Mantra Verse: Composed by Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
                                                                            Translation by Bhikshuni Heng Yin
                                      English Calligraphy by Jerri Jo Idarius
                                      Chinese Calligraphy by Upasaka Kuo Chi Liu

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Vajra Bodhi Staff for English Section

Director of Publications: Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

Chairperson of the Board: Upasaka C.T. Shen

President: Upasika Phuong Kuo Wu

Vice President: Professor Hsing Tsun Lee

Advisors: Bhikshu Heng Kuan, Bhikshunis Heng Yin & Heng Hsien, Professor Kuo Jung (R.B.) Epstein

Distributor: Bhikshu Heng Shun

Editor: Bhikshuni Heng Ch'ih

Graphics & Layout: Jerri Jo Idarius
Printer: Olympian Graphics, San Francisco.

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