VAJRA BODHI SEA

JANUARY, MAHAYANA 3002
THERAVADA 2518
Volume V

Series 12, No. 58

E SHR YUN

THE HEAVENLY YAKSA KING WEARING A TIGER'S SKIN, REWARDS THE GOOD, PUNISHES EVIL-- RESCUING IN THE NICK OF TIME. PATROLING THROUGHOUT THE FOUR DIRECTIONS, RECORDING MERIT AND OFFENSES, HOST AND MAINTAINER OF THE LEVEL AND EQUAL NOBLE WAY.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Bodhi Seal of the Patriarchs—Listening in the Valley

Records of the Lives of the High Masters

    --Fording 36 Treacherous Rivers
    --Dhyana Master Kalayasas
    --Forty-eight Fasting Birds
    --Charnel Fields

Sanskrit Lesson

Pictorial Biography of the Venerable Yun

Dharma Talks

BUDDHISM PROMOTES PEACE AND HARMONY-Bhiksu Thich Huyen Vi, Ph.D

THE FOUR ASSEMBLIES OF DISCIPLES-their modes of dress

The Bodhi Mirror-Bhikkhu Chap Kee Chua

The Bodhi Lectern—Upasaka Lai Tung-ming

Three Steps, One Bow

Cover Gatha:
Composed by the Venerable Master Hua
Translated by Bhiksuni Heng Kuan
Calligraphy by Upasaka Lee Kuo-Ch’ien
Layout by Upasaka Kuo Hui Weber

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Director of Translations: The Buddhist Text Translation Society
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