Question: According to research (at pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/05/5-facts-about-buddhists-around-the-world), between the years 2015 to 2060, the Buddhist population will...
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What Sicknesses Also Need Dharma Medicine? 何病还须法药医？Why Be Pure Veg(etari)ans Or With Threefold Purity? 为何净素或三净？
【谈念佛】 [On Mindfulness Of Buddha] 医药为治病之本，而大医王之法药，又为治业之本。 Medical medicine [is] for curing roots of sicknesses, and [the] Dharma medicine of [the Unsurpassable] Great King Of...
Upholding Buddha’s Name Is To Uphold The Contemplation Sūtra Well 持名念佛即是持好观经
今天农历四月初八是释迦牟尼佛的圣诞日。南无本师释迦牟尼佛。 Today, the 8th day of the 4th lunar month, is Śākyamuni Buddha’s sacred birthday. Homage to our fundamental teacher Śākyamuni Buddha...
How To Transform & Purify Evil Thoughts When Alive & Dying? 存亡者如何转恶念为净念？
《地藏经》利益存亡品第七（摘录） Kṣitigarbha Sūtra’s Chapter Seventh: Benefits [For The] Living [And] Deceased (Excerpt) 尔时地藏菩萨摩诃萨白佛言：世尊，我观是阎浮众生，举心动念，无非是罪。 At that time, Kṣitigarbha...
What Are Benefits Of Hearing Buddha’s Name Sincerely? 至心闻佛名号有何利益？
《地藏经》利益存亡品第七（摘录）Kṣitigarbha Sūtra’s Chapter Seventh: Benefits [For The] Living [And] Deceased (Excerpt)...
How To Avoid Having Karmic Creditors When Dying? 如何临终免除冤亲债主？
《地藏经》阎罗王众赞叹品第八（摘录） Kṣitigarbha Sūtra’s Chapter Eight: King Yama’s Assembly’s Praises (Excerpt) [主命大鬼王白释迦牟尼佛言]: 又阎浮提临命终人，不问善恶，我欲令是命终之人，不落恶道。 [Great Ghost King Master (Of)...
Why Offer Group-Guidance Before Group-Chanting?
Question: If a person chants aloud in a room, while another silently in another room – both to help the deceased, will the deceased get the same benefits as group-chanting...
Can Those Reborn Elsewhere Still Reach Pure Land?
Question: Can beings already reborn elsewhere still be guided to reach Āmítuófó’s (Amitā[bha] Buddha) Pure Land? Answer: For any being to reach Pure Land, that being must...
Mindfulness Of Buddha Is The King Of All Dharma Doors 念佛即是诸法之王
今天农历四月初四是文殊菩萨的圣诞日。南无大智文殊师利菩萨。 Today, the 4th day of the 4th lunar month, is Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva’s sacred birthday. Homage to the one with great wisdom, Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva...
Why Is The Pure Land Dharma Door With Vow As Utmost? 为何净土法门以愿为最？
净土门中，以愿为最，凡有愿者，终必能满。… [Of the] Pure Land [Dharma] Door within, [it is] with Vow [or ‘Aspiration’ for birth in Āmítuófó’s Pure Land] as [the most central...