Original Chinese Language Source Article: Ya’an Buddha-Dharma News Online (Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Dharma Master Zhi Deng (智灯法师 – Zhi Deng Fa Shi) is
Joseph Stalin Against Anarchist Terror & Assissanation
Joseph Stalin died in 1953. In 1956 – Nikita Khrushchev – in an attempt to consolidate his own premiership of the Soviet Union – issued
Dharma Master Da Zhao is Key-note Speaker at Pu An Temple (Gaomi, Shandong)
Chinese Language Source Article: Buddhism Online (26.4.14) (Translated by Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD) Translator’s Note: Dharma Master Da Zhao was born in 1972 – and is
Two Remarkable Aspects of the Buddha’s Teaching
In at least two respects, the teachings of the Buddha were quite remarkable. In the first place, he insisted on the virtue of moderation. He
Why the Buddha Left Society
‘The Buddhist Scriptures tell us that when Gotama was twenty-nine years old, he saw for the first time an Old man, a Sick Man, a
The Difference Between Gong-an and Ko-an Practice
It is bizarre to consider that as Japan descended into fascism and racism prior to WWII – the distorted, nationalistic Zen Buddhism of that time was popular in the West amongst intellectuals, despite a number of its masters expressing openly hostile attitudes toward the Western people. It is even more bizarre to consider that after WWII – many of these very same masters remained popular as they quietly pushed their formerly racist rhetoric into the background, and applied a more ‘neutral’ policy toward the acquisition of Enlightenment.
