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What is the difference between a temple?
What is the difference between a temple and a temple? In various news reports about Buddhism, you can often see journalists calling Buddhist temples a temple. Sometimes when chatting with some lay Buddhists, you can often hear them say: I went to the temple to burn incense one day or another.That
Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-07-26
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Dazhen Khenpo: Maximum benefits and harm
Khenpo Dazhen: The greatest benefit and the pain of harming sentient beings, all misfortunes come from one's own heart, from ignorance and darkness.With wisdom and enlightenment, we will eliminate the ignorance and darkness of sentient beings, impart the Dharma you have to others, and give the truth you understand,
Buddhist Q&ATime: 2025-07-25
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What is ignorance?
What is ignorance?Ignorance: Ignorance is affliction, and it is also one of the different names of afflictions.Focusing on the cause is called ignorance, while focusing on the result is called trouble.There are two major differences, namely one thought of ignorance and beginningless ignorance.One thought of ignorance is also called afflictions and confusion of views and thoughts.Ignorance without beginning is also called
Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-07-25
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Khenpo Dazhen: What is the biggest problem?
Khenpo Dazhen: What is the biggest problem?When I was sick that year, I was not nostalgic for this life. I had nothing to let go, but I was not very sure about the bardo and the next life, although I also knew the whole process.At that time, there was only one around me
Buddhist Q&ATime: 2025-07-25
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What is the difference between seeking rebirth in the Pure Land after death and seeking ascend to heaven after death
Is there any difference between seeking rebirth in the Pure Land and seeking ascend to heaven?The answer is yes.My teacher, Yin Hairen, once said that his teacher, Yin Shun, had a good summary of this.Mr. Yin summarized three points: Rebirth in the Pure Land is ascending rather than depravity, and equality rather than rank.
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-24
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Master Xuanhua: Every move of Buddha is to benefit people and others.
You see the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" says: Mountains, trees, rivers, or fields are all manifested by the Dharma body of the Tathagata.Or we are now sitting on the Dharma of Sakyamuni Buddha, but we don’t know.For example, in San Francisco, it has been a Buddha.
Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-07-24
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Master Xuanhua: What do the ten names of Buddha mean?
「Tathagata is one of the ten figures of the Buddha.A lay Buddhist asked me, "Is Tathagata Buddha different from Amitabha Buddha?"In fact, the name of each Buddha is "Tathagata", "Sakya Tathagata", and "Medicine Tathagata".It’s not that this Buddha is called Tathagata.
Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-07-24
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What is fixed
What is concentration in Buddhism?It is not that we can close our eyes, see nothing, hear nothing, and have no thoughts.This is just a preliminary stage, not a real determination.What does it mean?It is certain to be unaware of various external states
Buddha toolsTime: 2025-07-22
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Master Kuanjian replied: When meditating, is breathing a nose and mouth exhaling? Why does it always hurt when sitting for a while?
Master Kuanjian replied: When meditating, is breathing a nose and mouth exhaling? Why does it always hurt when sitting for a while? ※※: Master, when meditating, is breathing like a nose and mouth exhaling? Why does it always hurt when sitting for a while?Shi Kuanjian: Not necessarily, usually you suck and exhale with your nose.As for back pain
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-22
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Master Kuanjian replied: My husband doesn’t care about anything and lives with others outside. What should I do
Disciple: My child’s father doesn’t care about anything and has lived with others outside. I take care of the child and the old lady alone. What should I do? Leave or not? Master Kuanjian: After learning Buddhism, you must learn how to deal with it. How to choose? Leave or not
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-21
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Master Kuanjian replied: What kind of Buddha should people with deep karma chant?
Question: What Buddha should people with deep karma chant? Kuanjian Master: No matter what sutra or Buddha chant, they are all harmonious and unobstructed, and they are all one and not two. Reciting one Buddha is chanting countless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.Ordinary people will always be led by others, and they will be fickle. If they really treat each Buddha and a Bodhisattva
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-21
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What is blessing?
The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas give us their kind wishes, or the merits and blessings they have achieved, which is called the addition.The so-called holding is like taking it with our hands, holding it up, and holding it.Buddhas and Bodhisattvas use their compassion, wisdom and merits to give us all kinds of wishes and help
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-21
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Master Kuanjian: Lecture 7 of the Buddha's Sutra on the Ten Good Deeds and Ways of Deeds 1 The Benefits of Not Frivolous Words
《Lecture 7 of the Buddha's Sutra on the Ten Good Deeds (1)——The secret to changing the fate of people [original text] "The Dragon King is the second time.If you leave your frivolous words, you will achieve three decisions.What are the three? 1. It must be loved by Homo sapiens.2. You will definitely be able to answer questions truthfully with wisdom.3. Determined to man and heaven
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-19
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What exactly do you learn to study Buddhism?
Enlightenment can be achieved through the practice of chanting Buddha's name and practicing Zen.How to be enlightened?To use the term modern philosophy, that is, how to understand the world, this is the epistemology of Buddhism.Buddhist epistemology includes dependent origination and causality, which is separated from dependent origination and causality,
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-18
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What does the "Six Harmony" in Buddhism mean?
When the Buddha was alive, the monks led by him included seven disciples including monks, nuns, nuns, nuns, nuns, nuns, shikhamana, upass, and upas. In terms of the permanent followers around the Buddha, there were as many as 1,250 people.How can the Buddha govern such a huge monastic community?
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-18
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Master Xinlu: What is the special meaning of wearing Buddhist beads?
What is the special meaning of wearing Buddhist beads? I talked about the topic of "Who can bring Buddhist beads" in my previous blog. Many people are following it. Today we will continue to talk about the special meaning of wearing Buddhist beads.Perhaps, some friends think that anyone can wear it now
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-17
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Master Xinlu: Who is destined to be with Buddha?
Who is destined to be a Buddha? Li Ming has been very successful since he was a child. He had excellent grades when he was in school. It was not a problem for him to go to school. He got married soon after work. His wife was a classmate who had been in love for many years. Everyone envied them as a golden boy and a jade girl.How much work
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-17
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What does the "six senses" in the "six senses" often said in Buddhism?
When Buddhism looks at the universe and life, it is neither a materialist nor an idealist, nor a Theist, but a dependent theory who advocates the harmony of cause and condition.Therefore, Buddhism analyzes a person's composition from three aspects: psychology, physiology and physics.above
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-17
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What is Nirvana?
Nirvana refers to the state of liberation of life and death and dying, and achieving the state of liberation of inaction, that is, neither birth nor death.Nirvana is translated as passing away. The perfect merit is called perfection, and the extinction of karma is called silence.Nirvana is the highest state that Buddhist practice must reach.Why should Nirvana Buddhism think
Buddha toolsTime: 2025-07-16
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What is the secret to great wealth and great fortune?
When you come to this world, whether in the past, present, or future, people need blessings to nourish their physical body and satisfy their insatiable greed.There are many ways to obtain great blessings, some people say it depends on hard work
Cause and effectTime: 2025-07-15
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Master Hengchuan: I always dream at night and have poor sleep. What is the reason?
The charity asked: Master, my husband always lie flat on his body, sleeping with his hands on his pillow, and he is always nightmarished when he sleeps for several years. I have never dared to sleep on his body, and I will be nightmarish when I lie flat on my body. I always dream at night and have poor sleep. What is the reason?
Cause and effectTime: 2025-07-15
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Master Yuanyin replied: What is releasing animals?
Q: What is releasing animals?Master Yuanyin replied: Release animals is an act of seeing living beings, captured, captured, imprisoned and killed, panic, and death in a critical moment, showing compassion, buying goods to save and release them!
Release Q&ATime: 2025-07-12
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What is the difference between Buddhist intellectuals and masters with cultivation?
A senior brother asked: What is the difference between a Buddhist intellectual and a cultivating master?Buddhist intellectuals, [Knowledge points ],Corresponding to this is [Non-intellectual ]。A master with cultivation is [Monks ],Corresponding to this is [At home ]。So just
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-11
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Is wearing Buddhist beads superstitious?What are the benefits of wearing it by people who don’t believe in Buddhism?
Go to Wenchang to watch the satellites coming into the sky, Dai Huiwen Buddhist Beads returned home safely.Hainan Huiwen Government, Huiwen Buddhist Beads Association, and Huiwen Buddhist Beads Trading Market are the only designated Buddhist bead cultural exchange platform.For those who practice, rosary is an indispensable magic weapon, no matter it is a monk.
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-11
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Master Dayuan: What is the standard for testing whether life is awakened?
The standard for testing whether you have woken up is actually a sentence from Bodhisattva Zhishou in the "Avatamsaka Sutra" to Manjushri Bodhisattva: For a person whose life has awakened, he can achieve no faults in body, speech, and mind karma.The seven words "no fault" are very good
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-09
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Master Dayuan: What is the most important homework we need to do now
There is a female lay Buddhist who was still very distressed after she studied Buddhism.Once I said: I had troubles before, so I hope that studying Buddhism can eliminate troubles.But it seems that after I studied Buddhism, I felt more troubled.Because I feel that after learning Buddhism, my son seems to be too
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-08
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Why vegetarian diet in MD
Why is vegetarian in Aozhou: Dr. Yunbailie, a vegetarian, in your mind, a person with quirks or a smart person?My mother told me: When I was young, people put meat into my mouth and I spit it out immediately.
Eat vegetarian earlyTime: 2025-07-07
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Master Xuanhua: Why do you become a man?Why be a woman?
The Lotus Sutra says clearly that the dragon girl presents beads and becomes a Buddha on the spot.The dragon girl is a woman.She presented the jewel to the Buddha and became a Buddha immediately.This proves that women can also become Buddhas, but very few.As for why you are a man and why you are a woman?Just because of joy.Like women
Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-07-07
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Master Wumiao: Why do people live?
Question: There are so many unpredictable and solved problems in life. Life, family, personnel, and environmental hazards. Why do people live?Master Wumiao: Yes.When we grow up slowly and face various situations in life, we will ask ourselves this
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-05
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What are the Mahayana and Hinayana in Buddhism?
The Buddha talked about the fundamental principles of being a human being to listeners with shallow roots, kept the five precepts, and practiced the ten virtues, which was called the human and heavenly vehicle;For people with strong sense of world-weariness, they talk about the method of liberation from life and death, which is called the Hinayana of the Shravakas;For listeners with deep roots and compassionate wishes to transform the world,
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-04
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What is the old hill sandalwood in India
What is Indian Old Hill Sandalwood?The origin of the name of Laoshan Sandalwood in India has always been controversial. In fact, Laoshan Sandalwood is just a name for the Chinese people themselves, and there is no such name in India itself.Why is it called Laoshan Sandalwood?There are three different statements
Buddhist bead materialTime: 2025-07-02
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The purpose of protecting animals - for morality or interest?
The purpose of protecting animals Although the awareness of animal protection is still behind among Chinese people, we must also be optimistic that the concept of protecting animals among ordinary public and young students is spreading at a very fast speed, but many scholars are not sensitive enough.
Origin of releaseTime: 2025-07-02
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Master Da'an: What is the principle that chanting Buddha's name can eliminate the serious sins of life and death in eight billion kalpas?
Question: Amitabha! What is the principle that chanting the Buddha's name can eliminate the serious sins of life and death for eighty billion kalpas? Master Da'an replied: It seems that you still have doubts! The sentence in the "Amitabha Sutra" is born from the lower level. This sentence is undoubtedly true.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01
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The merits and benefits of the Green Tara mantra
Green Tara is the incarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva.Tara, Sanskrit name Tara, The full name is the Holy Saving Buddha Mother. In ancient my country, it was called Tara Bodhisattva and Tara Guanyin. There are 21 lords, all of which are the incarnations of Guanyin Bodhisattva.Green Tara is one of the twenty-one Tara, this girl appears
Buddha toolsTime: 2025-06-30
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Reciting Buddha's name to release animals, one respect can gain benefits
These days, I started worshiping the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" again, one page a day.About 160 worships a day.Experience is best to set the time so as not to squeeze time or delay the work until very late.I worship the scriptures on time at 6 o'clock in the morning.Master Yin Guang roughly said: Too high cushion will affect
Release experienceTime: 2025-06-30
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What strokes are used to draw fine brushwork in various ancient times?
What kind of brush is used to draw white brushwork in various ancient times? Poems written in fine brushwork using white brushwork techniques seem plain and savor carefully, but they are meaningful.Such as Meng Haoran's "Spring Dawn" and Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden and Fields" (Nothing suitable for the rhyme )They all cherish the ink as gold, and they are thick
Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-28
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Master Pure Land Dharma: Why do you often encounter ghosts?
Before I learned Buddhism, I often encountered ghosts, and I always encountered them several times a month.Why does this phenomenon occur? Because I have the idea of killing in my heart.When I was sixteen or seventeen, I went hunting every day and brought my prey back every day, so I often went on the road
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-27
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What to eat in winter to beautify your beauty
Nowadays, most women have been engaged in the office and marrying computers all year round. They have monotonous work, tense expressions and huge pressure. There are many people with gastrointestinal dysfunction, either too thin, too obese, diarrhea is difficult to stop, or constipation is unsolvable, which makes people feel sad.
Beauty and fitnessTime: 2025-06-27
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Why do you need to recite the Three Refuges?
No matter whether you become a monk or a monk, you can make three or four refuges for all animals. This is a temporary refuge from connections;It’s like first reserving a student registration from the school. Once the time comes, the formal admission registration procedures will be completed.Because not every animal can release animals
Release libraryTime: 2025-06-26
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Wealth comes from blessings, blessings come from benefiting others
Many people are full of enthusiasm and talent, but they can never do things, while some people do not have talent and knowledge, but they can do something well.Nowadays, those who graduate from college generally work for those who graduate from elementary school, and even those who do not graduate from elementary school.Place
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-26
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Master Nenghong: Why can’t you go up with the double plate? _Reasons for meditation and not being able to go up
Some people say that sitting cross-legged, but not cross-legged.Why can't you put it on?Because your muscles and bones are relatively hard, you need to practice the double plate, and you still have to be afraid of pain.You must know how to regulate your body, breathing, and mind. After you have adjusted it well, you will practice more and your heart will be softer and your muscles will become softer.
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-24
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【Buddhist Knowledge: What does the Great Compassion Mantra mean?
The Great Compassion Mantra comes from the "The Great Compassion Dharani Sutra of Thousand-Handed Thousand Eyes Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Great Compassion Dharani Sutra". It is an important formula for Guanyin Bodhisattva's great compassion, supreme bodhicitta, and a great formula for saving the world and saving people, practicing Taoism and becoming a Buddha.The full text of the Great Compassion Mantra has 84 sentences, each sentence is correct
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-06-24
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What is the best way to eat cucumber?
1+11The combination of cucumbers and peanuts can easily cause diarrhea: cut cucumbers into small cucumbers and mix them with boiled peanuts. As a refreshing and cold dish, it is often active on the dining tables of many families. Many men also like to mix cucumbers with a plate of peanuts when drinking.That
Vegetarian HealthTime: 2025-06-24
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Master Ruxiao: What are ritual refuge and practice refuge?
Refuge in sub-rituals and refuge in practice.The monk will receive refuge for you, which is a ritual refuge;After taking refuge, you must practice refuge every day, such as in temples, you must recite refuge every day. This is the refuge of practicing Dharma.The conversion to practice Dharma will last for the rest of your life, and this life will last forever
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-22
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Master Nenghong: Why should you live in the mountains _The significance of practicing in the mountains
When your mind calms down, the mountains are pure lands just like outside the mountains, which is indeed the case!Because all the things in the universe show the wisdom of Tathagata.Everyone, every thing, every thing, everything, everything, everything, is empty in the body, is originally liberated, everything
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-22
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Why did the pain not improve after release?
Question: I have a very serious disease. I know that releasing animals will eliminate my karma and improve my disease. I have released animals more than once, but why didn’t I feel the pain improve?Answer: Although you are releasing animals, your karma is increasing again.
Release Q&ATime: 2025-06-22
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Why is the best Vajra Bodhis son cracked
Why is the best Vajra Bodhi seed cracked? In a blink of an eye, autumn has entered and winter is not far away.Many gamers come to ask the editor why the top Vajra Bodhi seeds crack? Today, the editor will explain it to you.Reasons for cracking of the top Vajra Bodhi seed: 1
Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-22
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What is Tibetan Buddhism
1. Origin of Buddhism: The ancestor of Buddhism is Shakyamuni Buddha.Sakyamuni is the name of a family. Sakyamuni Buddha was born in a royal family, and the name of this family is Sakyamuni.Then Muni is his real name, Muni is translated in Sanskrit.
Buddha toolsTime: 2025-06-21
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Master Jiequan: Why do people often use these three words?
According to Buddhism, how can we be happy?Only by having fewer desires can one be satisfied, only by following the circumstances can one be at ease, the most important thing is to obtain a human body, listen to the Dharma, and be liberation can one be happy!If you are not liberated, there will never be happiness in this world, so contentment is happiness, and wisdom is the true nature of life
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-19
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What is the custom of releasing animals in the snowy area?
Release of animals is a common folk custom in Tibetan areas. It belongs to the category of folk religious activities. The manifestations in various places are roughly the same. Release of creatures to nature and let them live and die.The origin of releasing animals is in Tibetan areas, and many customs are related to religion.
Release GuideTime: 2025-06-18