为了新年的第一天和人生的最后一天For The First Day Of The New Year And The Last Day Of This Human Life Introductory excerpt by Raoul Birnbaum, in the chapter, ‘A Peripatetic Bodhisattva...
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Discussion On Experiments For Correcting Faults《改过实验谈》[37] Ten Teachings For Correcting Faults 改过十训
《改过实验谈》Discussion On Experiments For Correcting Faults 弘一大师著By Great Master Hóngyī [介绍][Introduction] 今值旧历新年，请观厦门全市之中，新气象充满，门户贴新春联，人多著新衣，口言恭贺新喜、新年大吉等。 Now, happening to be the old...
[36] Top Ten Lessons On Impermanence 关于无常的十大教训
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Immeasurable Light & Life 无量光寿
无量光寿 若生西方，庶可与【阿弥陀】佛光寿同一无量无边矣。 净土宗十三祖印光大师 Immeasurable Light And Life If born in the Western Pure Land,you can be with Āmítuófó,with light and life similarlyimmeasurable and...
Not Clutching Beads, Yet Knowing Buddha Recitations’ Number 不掐珠而知念佛数
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Planchette Writing Is Not The Right Dharma, While Monastics Drinking Alcohol And Eating Meat Are Without Excuses 扶乩非正法，酒肉僧无籍口
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Coriander Is Not One Of The Five Pungent Roots 芫荽非五荤之一
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[12] Not With Evil ‘Teachers’ Debating With One Another 不与邪师相辩
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