Highway Dharma Letters: Two Buddhist Pilgrims Write to Their Teacher - Hardcover

Heng, Sure; Heng, Chau

 
9781601030719: Highway Dharma Letters: Two Buddhist Pilgrims Write to Their Teacher
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1601030711 ISBN 13: 9781601030719
Verlag: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

American Buddhist monks Heng Sure and Heng Chao undertook the ancient ascetic practice of bowing once every three steps on a two and a half year pilgrimage up the coast of California in the 1970s. They took with them only their faith and a wish for world peace as the inched their way along at about a mile a day. Who gave them food? Where did they sleep? How did they diffuse the anger of drunks and overcome the hostility of law enforcement? What lessons did they learn in compassion and humility? And most important, what can we learn from their journey? Now 35th years after of the completion of their pilgrimage, the collection of letters they wrote during this time to their teacher Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua, is republished as Highway Dharma Letters, a fascinating glimpse at their external journey up the coast and their internal journey towards transformation.

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Heng Chao, Martin J. Verhoeven, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializes in the Euro-American encounter with Asian religions. He is adjunct professor of Comparative Religion at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), and a professor of Buddhist Classics at Dharma Realm Buddhist University (DRBU). He also teaches a weekly translation and meditation series at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. http://www.berkeleymonastery.org/ Rev. Heng Sure, M.A. in oriental languages from University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union, is Director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. He teaches at the Institute for World Religions and is an adjunct professor at Bond University, Australia. He is actively involved in interfaith dialogue and in the ongoing conversation between spirituality and technology. Rev. Heng Sure was ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1976. Heng Sure and Martin Verhoeven have just finished editing The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra (Aug 2014), the bible of Chan Buddhism.

Aus dem Klappentext

On May 7, 1977, two Buddhist monks bowed out the door of Gold Wheel Temple in Los Angeles. Their teacher, Master Hua saw them off, saying, Be the same on the highway as you were in the monastery. The external destination of their journey was to be the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, a new Buddhist community that Master Hsüan Hua had just established in Mendocino County, a hundred miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. They soon found, however, that the external journey was merely the setting for an internal journey towards inner transformation.The strenuous physical work of bowing many hours, day in and day out, quickly became the vehicle for the work of self-examination, repentance, and mental purification. For this work they needed sincerity, softness, and determination, and above all they needed the guidance and the example of a good teacher.In their letters to Master Hua, the two monks reported everything important that had happened on the highway the mistakes and the growth, the trials and the remarkable encounters, the gradual spiritual progress and the occasional setbacks, the hard work with the body and in the mind.Master Hua would answer their letters by visiting them from time to time along the highway and offering guidance, admonishment, encouragement, and practical advice.The Buddhist Text Translation Society was founded in 1970 by the Tripitika Master Hsüan Hua with the mission of translating the Chinese Buddhist canon into English and other Western languages. To date the Society has published over 200 volumes of Sutra texts and instructional talks. This is the most neglected book of the twentieth century I say this categorically and with complete confidence. . . . I want only to add that I find it one of the most inspiring. To be able through these letters to look in on (and participate in, if only vicariously) the lives and dealings of these two True Cultivators makes for as uplifting reading as any I have come upon short of Scriptures. Huston Smith

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Verlag
Buddhist Text Translation Society
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1601030711
ISBN 13 
9781601030719
Einband
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Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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