Index; for Vajra Bodhi Sea issues #60-89

Abhidharmakosa Sastra Introduction #77,78,79 p.49; #80,81,82 p.54-Karika #1; #81 p.15-Karika#2.

Across the Sea of Suffering in a Boat of Vows #63,64 p.35-Heng Chu #65 p.20-Heng Shun; #71 p28-Heng Lai; #89 p.30-Heng Ch'au

Aeon #83-85 p.21 

affliction #74-76 p.23 

Ajnata Kaundinya #77-79 p.19 

Amitabha Buddha Session #89 p.33-36 

anger #80-81 p.83 

arrogance #77-79 p.34 

attachments #69 p.10; #77,78,79 p.17; #77-79 p.72 

Avatamsaka Sutra: 10 Grounds
Chapter #80-82 p.32; #83-85 p.29; #86 p.19; #87 p.11; #88 p.14-20; #89 p.13-21,30 

Bathe the Buddha of your self-nature #71 p. 35 

bhikshu #74-76 p.13 

The birth of Gotama Buddha #71 p.29. 

birth and death #74-76 p.74 #83-85 p.98

blessings #70 p.13

The Bodhi Mirror #63-64 p.43 Shramanerika Heng Chu;#65 p.27 Bhikshu Aryamitra Mahathera; #66 p.26 Shramanera Heng Shun; #67 p.14 Bhikshuni Ch'ang Hsu; #68 p.15 Bhikshuni Heng Hsien; #69 p.30 Bhikshu Seck Kong Poh; #70 p.24 Bhikshu Sheng Yen; #71 p.25 Bhikshu I Yuan 

The Bodhi Seal of the Patriarchs
#63-64 p.l Dhyana Master Yang An; #65 p.l Dhyana Master Shih Ch'an Pen-Wu; #66 p.l Dhyana Master Tu-Ch'e Ts'ang-Hsueh; #67 p.l Ch'an Master Ta T'ung Ta An; #68 p.l High Master Shan-Tao; #69 p.l Great Master Chieng Yuan; #70 p.l National Master Fa Chao; #71 p.l Great Master Shao K'ang; #72 p.l Ch'an Master Yen Shou; #73 p.l Vinaya Master Sheng Ch'ang

The Bodhi Stand #63-64 p.47 Upasika Nancy Lethcoe; #65 p.28 Upasaka Kuo Li Eagleson; #66 p.33 Upasaka Charles C.Y. Wu; #67 p.26 Upasaka Kuo Hui Weber; #68 p.18 Upasaka Kuo Sun Cassin; #69 p.31 Upasika Lee Kuo Hung

bowing #80-82 p.91

Briefly annotated survey of one course of studying the Dharma #67 p.28

Buddha #71 p.9; #88 p.11,89

Buddha Eye #86 p.14

Buddha Vehicle #88 p.12-13

Buddhadharma #88 p.10

The Buddha Speaks the Ultimate Extinction of the Dharma Sutra #77-79 p.58

Buddhism in Los Angeles #73 p.41; #83-85 p.93

Buddhism in the Space Age
#70 p.15

Buddhist Poetry #70 p.14,31,36; #71 p.23,36; #74-76
p.72-73; #87 p.40 

Buddhist Prayers Bring Rain
#80-82 p.95.

Buddhist Songs #68 p.40;
#73 p.36; #74-76 p.16; #77-79 p.5,48,101; #80-82 p.82; #83-85 p.86,90

Calendar of Buddhist Celebrations #73 p.34; #74-76 p.46; #80-82 p.104

causes and conditions #63-64 p.6,7; #74-76 p.44; #77-79 p.42

cause and effect #65 p.29; #77-79 p.90

Celebration of the Birthday of Venerable Master Hua #87 p.37

Celebration on Fo-Kuang Mt.
#68 p.23

Ch'an Talk by Ch'an Master Lai Kuo #74-76 p.57

Ch'an session 73-74 #71 p.22; #74-76 p.51; #77-79 p.63; #83-85 p.67; #88 p.40-1977

City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
#72 p.37; #74076 p.96; #80-82 p.101 #83-85 p.90,92,97,105; #86 p.38

climb on conditions #87 p.26

clothes that grow #89 p.2

Confucius #67 p.20

death #68 p.28,29; #74-76 p.74-80

delusion #63-64 p.21 

Devadatta #86 p.12 

dharma #74-76 p.36 

Dharma Ending Age #65 p.5 

Dharma rain #80-82 p.81 

Dharma Master Ch'ing Yen
#72 p.32 

Dharma Master Tao An
#63-64 p.16

Dharma Realm #80-82 p.69 

Dharma Realm Buddhist University #73 p.40; #74-76 p.92;
#77-79 p.87; #80-82 p.99

Dharma Talks #71 p.22; #74-76 p.51; #77-79 p.63; #83-85 p.67 #88 p.24; Kuan Yin Recitation, 1977 #80-82 -p.83

Dharma Talks, Kuan Yin Session, 1970 #63-64 p.25; #65 p.13; #66 p.13; #67 p.18; #68 p.26; #69 p.24

Disciple Shih Fa Yu #63-64 P.22

Digging Gold in the Mountains #63-64 p.60-Heng Kung

discipline #74-76 p.65

doctors and nurses request
Dharma #83-85 p.97

Don't Build me a Temple
#83-85 p.79 

doubts #72 p.9 

dreaming #83-85 p.93 

Eating One Meal a Day and
Then Some #77-79 p.80 

Earth is Made to Eat the
Flesh of People #77-79 p.82

eating #83-85 p.84

Eight Great Freedoms of Self #80-82 p.28

Eight Liberations #80-82 p.20

Eight Marks of a Bodhisattva #88 p.16

Eight Signs of the Buddha Coming into the World #71 p.37

Eight Sufferings #63-64 p.11-14

Eight Victorious Places #80-82 p.21

Eighteen Kinds of Penetrations from the Complete Spirit #71 p.3

Eleven Kinds of Meritorious Virtues Derived from Making Buddha Images #86 p.6

empty space #69 p.8,9

Those Enlightened to Conditions #71 p.15; #74-76 p.27

enlightenment #73 p.30

envious #77-79 p.47

Eugene, Oregon, Dharma Talks #80-82 p.83, 87, 91

expedient Dharma #88 p.12

faith #66 p.36; #74-76 p.85; #77-79 p.15; #80-82 p.87

faith, vows, and practice #74-76 p.85

Falling Through the Generation Gap #74-76 p.61

false thought #66 p.9; #77-79 p.64; #80-82 p.71

fame #73 p.10,29; #74-76 p.17

fear #80-82 p.25

filial piety #67 p.11; #77-79 p.104

Five Contemplations #83-85 p.85

Five Coverings #68 p.5-10

Five Desires #73 p.26; #77-79 p.23; #83-85 p.7; #88 p.4,6

Five Eyes #86 p.14

Five Fearsome Matters #86 p.22

Five Kinds of Spiritual Penetrations #66 p.6

Five Roots to Hell #73 p.26

Five Turbidities #77-79 p.46

flattering #83-85 p.13

Four Circuits #80-82 p.87

Four Elements #80-82 p.71

Four Kinds of Birth #63-64 p.2

Four Kinds of Nirvana #73 p.3

Four Methods for expounding the Dharma #71 p.11

Four Qualities of the Voice #71 p.12

Four Wisdoms #80-82 p.45

free to roam #88 p.20

Freezing, Don't Climb on. Conditions #87 p.26


Gilding the Kuan Yin Image at the City of Ten Thou­sand Buddhas #86 p.38

giving #65 p.8-12

gods #88 p. 26

Gold Mountain Instilling Virtue Elementary School #69 p.35; #71 p.41; #73 p.19; #77-79 p.98; #8.0-82 p. 70 

Gold Wheel Temple #73 p.41;
#83-85 p.93 Good Knowing Advisor #74-76 p.51-53

Go with the Flow #74-76 p.74 

Going Out Cold-Seminar on Dying
#77-79 p.89

good roots #83-85 p.6, 14 

The Great Flower Adornment Sutra
(Avatamsaka) #63-64 p.0 #65 p.17 Dog tooth sarira, p.29 cause § effect; #67 p.11 filial piety; #68 p.20 One in Every Home; #72 p.36 Everything is made from the mind alone; #74-76 p.64 Where do living beings come from?; #80-82 p.69 All Gone, All Gone, p.79 Mind and the World, p.103 Equal Opportunity, according to Buddhism; #83-85 p.16

Great Master Chih Kung #63 p.27

Great Master No I's Unequivocal Stand #63-64 p.24

Great Uncle Know-it-all #66 p.34

greed #77-79 p.47

ground of happiness #88 p.14.

Guess what? #83-85 p.88.

How left home people got the name Shih #63-64 p.21

How we got here and what to do now #80-82. p.71 

human body #88p.5 

the Hundred Dharmas #83-85
p.25 

ignorance #63-64 p.21; #74-76
p.40

Instruction upon taking re­fuge with the Triple Jewel #74-76 p.84

jealous #80-82 p.24; #88 p.20 

kalpa #83-85 p.21 

karma #63-64 p.44; #80-82
p.71 

killing #77-79 p.82; #80-82
p.69 

Kuan Yin Recitation Session
#63-64 p.25; #65 p.13; #66 p.13: #67 •1.18; #68 p.26; #69 p.24; #83-85 p.105 

Kuan Yin Recitation Eugene
Oregon #80-82 p.83 

The Language of Change #74-76
p.68

Living Buddha #83-85 p.15 

Maitreya  #73 p.10 & 11; #74-76 p.19-21 

Manjushri #73 p. 10 

marks #74-76 p.39 

merit #77-79 p.89 

Middle Way #89 p.21,30 

mind #89 p.20-21 

Moscone, George #66 p.32 

music #86 p.9

Nalanda Today #63,64 p.49 

namo #86 p.12; #87 p.2 

nature #74-76 p.40 

The Nature of the Madhyamika
Argument #63-64 p.55 

News from the Dharma Realm
#63-64 p.65 Shakyamuni Buddha's birthday #65 p.31 Chanting Amitabha in the Mountains; #67 p.35 Cultivators complete 36 day fasts; #68 p.38 Into the family of the Buddha; #69 p.33 the infant lives; #70 p.32 Dharma Assembly at Santa Clara, p.37 Energies for Peace; #71 p.31 Buddha's birthday 1976; #72 p.30 A Gold Mountain Leaving Home; #73 p.24 Dharma Talk at U. C. Davis; #74-76 p.89 Dharma Master Heng Kuan in Asia; #87 p.38 "Celestial Horses" Exhibition Opens; #88 Intensive Ch'an at Tathagata Monastery; #89 Amitabha Session at City of Ten Thousand Buddhas #89 p.33, Temple Bells p.36. 

New Year's Day 1977 #83-85 p.108 

nirvana #65-64 p.14; #73 p.6,7 

occult dharmas #88 p.7 

outflows #74-76 p.11 

patience #74-76 p.19 

the Path of Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita #80-82 p.56

Pictorial Biography of the Venerable Master Hsu Yun #63-64 p.32;
#65 p.18; #66 p.12 #67 p.12; #68 p.12; #69 p.22; #70 p.22; #71 p.20; #72 p.20; #73 p.20; #74-76 p.66; #77-79 p.52; #80- 82 p.52; #83-85 p.76; #86 p.24; 87 p.l8; #88 p.22; #89 p.24

pigeons #68 p.33,34 

Pratyeka Buddha #71 p.15 

precepts are better than candy
#80-82 p.63

provisional Dharma #74-76 p.25 

purify your mind #83-85 p.93 

purity #83-85 p.96 

purpose of meditation #72 p.17   

rain #80-82 p.81, 95 

real mark #74-76 p.8 

real wisdom #88 p.4,5 

Recognition of the Mother #63,64
p.37; #66 p.17; #70 p.26 

Records of the Lives of the High Masters #63,64 p.16 Dharma Master
Tao An; p.22 Disciple Shih Fa YU; #69 p.16 Dharma Master Shih Fa-ho, p.17 Dharma Master Seng-lang

Religion Can make Life Richer
#66 p. 25 

retribution #74-76 p.44 

Saha world #89 p.4                  

samadhi #83-85 p.23,27 

Sanskrit Lesson #63-64 p.34;
#65 p.26; #66 p.12; #67 p.32; #68 p.14; #69 p.29; #70 p.21; #71 p.24; #72 p.l6; #73 p.l5; #74-76 p.56; #77-79 p.54; #80-82 p.51; #83-85 p.75; #86 p.23; #87 p.l7; #88 p.21; #89 p.22 

Sharira #65 p.l7 

selfishness #63,64 p.46; #86 p.20 

Seminar on Dying #74-76 p.74; #77-79 p.89

session, Amitabha Buddha #89 p.33-36 

sex #73 p.27

sexual desire #83-85 p.52 

sincerity #73 p.11 

six conditions which enable the
Buddhist adept to prevent the body from decaying #72 p.34 

Six Crossings Over #83-85 p.27 

Six Destinies #83-85 p.9 

Six Organs #89 p.12 

Six Paths #83-85 p.9; #86 p.26 

Six Penetrations #80-82 p.38 

Six Sense Organs #71 p. 36 

Sixty-two Views #83-85 p.10 

slander #86 p.20 

Slandered by Demons #77-79
p.55 

Smart Enough to Gnaw their way
Straight Through #65 p. 21-John Blofeld 

Sound-Hearers #71 p.14 

Stanzas on the Resolution to
be born in Sukhavati #73 p.22 

stories #63,64 p.27,28; #67 p.20
#69 p.10; #70 p.7; #71 p.2; #73 p.27,28,29; #74-76 p.58-60,77; #77-79 p.47,93; #83-85 p.22,71; #86 p.12,13,16; #87 p.3; #88 p.26-29; #89 p.4-7

stupidity #80-82 p.24

suffering #63-64 p.9-11; #83-85 p.l8; #88 p.7

Summer Retreats 1977 #77-79 p.96

superstition #80-82 p.91; #83-85 p.102

Shurangama Sutra  #65 p.30; #63 64 p.24

Taking refuge and precepts #77-79 p.88       

Tathagata Monastery #73 p.32 

Ten Dharma realms #68 p.20 

Ten Grounds #83-85 p.30 

Ten Kinds of Wisdom Power #80-82 p.20 

Ten Propositions of Exhaustion
#89 p.15-18 

Ten Titles of the Buddha #71 p.6-11 

Ten types of precepts #67 p.6

ten virtuous qualities of faith #66 p.36

ten vows  made before the Bodhisattva Who Hears the Sounds of the World #80-82 p.84-85 

three categories of substance
#74-76 p.42 

three clarities
#80-82 p.38 

three evil paths #77-79 p.92
#83-85 p.9 

three irreversibilities #80-82 p.34 

three kinds of enlightenment
#71 p.9 

three kinds of nirvana
#73 p.6 

three kinds of pure meat
#77-79 p.78 

three levels of non-retreat
#77-79 p.14 

Three Steps One Bow: Letters
#86 p.35; #87 p.29; #88 p. 36-39; #89 p.39-41 

three realms of existence
#63,64 p.6 

three sufferings #63-64 p.10,11 

three turnings of the Dharma
wheel  #89 p.8-9 

Thus Come One #71 p.7 

tiger disciples #74-76 p.5 

Translation Trust-busting
#77-79 p.75 

translating sutras #80-82
p.91

Triple Jewel #70 p.6, 12 

twelve conditioned causes
#63,64 p.15; #71 p.14

Turning the Polyglot Dharma
Wheel  #80-82 p.74

Underconsumption in Buddhism
#83-85 p.84 

Vajra Sutra  #83-85 p.22;
#86 p.8 

Vegetarianism in Buddhism
#72 p.24; #89 p.6 

Vegetarian offering #89 p.36

Venerable Ch'an Master Lai Kuo #74-76 p.57

Venerable Master Ch'ang Jen #65 p.9 Verse for those who leave the home-life #77-79 p.78 

Vows of Bodhisattvas #88 p.18-20;
#89 p.13 

Water-Mirror Returning to Heaven
#80-82 p.68 

wealth #73 p.26

What's in it for you ? #63,64 p.46 wearisome dust #68 p.33

What would make a grown may cry?
#74076 p.81

wisdom #83-85 p.23,27

Why does Gold Mountain have so many
ceremonies? #67 p.15

women's liberation #73 p.25

Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra
#63,64 p.5; #65 p.6; #66 p.5; #67 p.5; #68 p.5;#69 p.7; #70 p.5; #71 p.5; #72 p.7; #73 p.5; #74-76 p.6; #77-79 p.6; #80-82 p.7; #83-85 p. 5; #86 p.3; #87 p.2; #88 p.3; #89 p.3

wonderful function of the zero
#74-76 p.98 

You children translate ancient wisdom & find meaning in it for modern
Americans #77-79 p.103

Young Americans leave the home-life
#63,64 p.68 

Yu Cardinal Pien, visits Gold
Mountain #87 p.33 

zero #71 p.40; #74-76 p.98

Truly recognize your own faults, 
And don't discuss the faults of others.
Other's faults are just your own.
Being one with everyone is called great compassion.

-Venerable Master Hua



Everything is a test
to see what you will do.
If you don't recognize
What's right before your eyes,
You'll have to start anew.

-Venerable Master Hua

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