This volume contains the Dharma teachings of Master Hua.

Venerable Master Hua's Talks on Dharma: Volume One (English and Chinese Edition)

Reference

Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

Buddhist Text Translation Society

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS)

If we want Buddhism to spread and flourish, we have to look far into the future. We have to bring Buddhism to every nation, to every corner of the globe, to every mote of dust. Buddhism is not something that belongs just to our own country. Buddhism belongs to all of humanity, to all living beings. -Venerable Master Hua

Dharma Talks in Europe: Given by the Venerable Master Hua in 1990

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

What are the four types of wisdom? What is the difference between sudden and gradual enlightenment? How can I tell if I am gaining skill in mediation? How can I avoid injuries when cultivating? Why is eating properly important? What can sabotage my cultivation? 
Advice for the serious meditator, pointing out the pitfalls of meditation and offering helpful suggestions about practice. Compiled from three decades of lectures given by the late Chan Master Hsuan Hua.

Words of Wisdom: Practice (Volume 2)

Agnosticism

The Buddhas speaks limitless Dharmas, which are like medicines, to alleviate the illnesses of living beings. Medicine Master Buddha is honored as the foremost teacher in medicine, the king of medicine kings. He has vowed to quell disasters and lengthen life and has established the Vaiduray Pure Land in the East. This sutra contains his twleve great vows to help living beings.

Medicine Master Sutra: A Simple Explanation by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

Bodhidharma was the 28th Buddhist Patriarch in India and the first Buddhist Patriarch of China. He was the founder of Shao Lin Temple, hidden in the scenic mountains of China, the purported birthplace of martial arts. But why did this great Indian Buddhist Master risk everything to travel to China? What really was his goal there? How did he become the first Buddhist Patriarch in China? Black and white with illustrations. Appropriate both for youth and adults.

The Intention of Patriarch Bodhidharma's Coming from the West

The life and teaching of Master Hui Neng, an illiterate Buddhist monk of Tang Dynasty China (7th century) who expounded the doctrine of no-thought and sudden enlightenment through meditation. The book is filled with Tang Dynasty history, covers such topics as ignorance and enlightenment, different levels of consciousness and ultimate reality.

The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra: with the Commentary of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

Sixth Patriarch Hui-neng

The One Hundred Dharmas are a categorization of all dharmas according to the Consciouness-Only or Yogacara School of Mahayana Buddhism. All lists of dharmas are for the purpose of breaking attachment to distinctions about our minds and the physical world that are based on attachment to self. They include 1. Form Dharmas (11), 2. Mind Dharmas (8), 3. Dharmas Interactive with the Mind (51), 4. Dharmas Not Interactive with the Mind (24) 5. Unconditioned Dharmas (6+)

Shastra on the Door to Understanding the Hundred Dharmas

Bodhisattva, Vasubandhu

When on the path of enlightenment, one is easily waylaid by false states of awakening. This volume of the Shurangama Sutra explains in detail fifty kinds of deviant mental states, the causes of these states and the ways to recognize them. This sutra offers a framework for the classification of all spiritual experiences, both Buddhist and non-Buddhist. Bilingual Chinese/English edition. English only edition has ISBN 0-88139-401-7.

The Shurangama Sutra: The Fifty Skandha-Demon States - Based on the Translation into Chinese by Dharma Master Paramiti (Bilingual: English and Chinese Edition) (English, Chinese and Chinese Edition)

The last chapter of the Shurangama Sutra detailing out the 50 Skhanda Demon states associated to the five skhandas. Venerable Master Hsuan Hua's commentary helps to explain these states and how to avoid them as serious practitioners of the Way.

The Shurangama Sutra: The Fifty Skandha-Demon States

News from True Cultivators: Letters to the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

Reverend Heng Sure

Shramanera Heng Ch'au

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