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• Shurangama Sutra. Volume I-III (Co.)

• Sutra In Forty-Two Sections (Co.)

• Buddha Root Farm

• The Dharani Sutra (Co.)

• Dharma Flower Sutra (Co.)

• Flower Adornment Sutra (Co.)

• Listen To Yourself. Think Everything Over

• Pure Land And Ch'an Dharma Talks

• Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra (Co.)

• Essentials Of The Sramanera Vinaya And Rules Of Deportment

• Sutra Of The Past Vows Of Earth Store Bodhisattva

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• Great Compassion Mantra Verses (Co.)

• The Sixth Patriarch's Dharma Jewel Platform Sutra (Co.)

• Spring Sun, Lotus Flower: Quotes from the Teachings of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

Patriarch, pioneer Chinese Master in the West, meditation master, translator, educator and missioner.
 

Born in1918 as Bai Yushu in Shuangcheng District, Jilin Province, China.

At age 15 he became a student of Master Chang Zhi. At age 19, when his mother passed away, he was ordained by Master Chang Zhi at Sanyuan Monastery and was given the Dharma name An Tse (Peace and Compassion) and To Lun (Liberate from the Wheel of Rebirth). He observed filial duties by her grave for 3 years while learning and practising the Dharma and later practiced austerities in the secluded Amitabha Cave, Changbai Mountain. Hui Neng, the 6th Patriarch, appeared in his dream and prophesied his journey to the West. Later, he returned to Sanyuan Monastery, where he was chosen to head the monastery. Well educated, though not formally, in Chinese classics, Buddhist scriptures, medicine, physiognomy and astrology.

Set out to meet Master Hsu Yun (1946) which took him two years and over 3,000 miles. During the journey he stayed at many of the renowned monasteries of mainland China, visited to P’u T’o Mountain to receive the higher ordination (1947), and finally met Master Hsu Yun at Nanhua Monastery at Caoxi, Guangzhou (1948). He was assigned to be an instructor in the Nanhua Monastery Vinaya Academy and later appointed as Dean of Academic Affairs. Master Hsu Yun transmitted the Dharma-lineage to him, giving him the Dharma name Hsuan Hua and making him the Ninth Patriarch of the Wei Yang Sect, the forty-fifth generation since the First Patriarch Mahakashyapa. The name Hsuan Hua means Proclaim and Transform’. Unite the five schools in China and advocated non-sectarianism.

Went to Hong Kong to actively propagate the Dharma (1949), and stayed for more than 12 years. During this time he also made several visits to Thailand, Burma, and other countries to seek understanding and unity with the southern (Theravada) tradition of Buddhism. He instructed his disciples to establish the Sino-American Buddhist Association (later renamed the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association) in the United States (1959). He traveled to Australia (1961) and stayed for a year before returning to Hong Kong (1962).

He left for San Francisco, United States (1962) and waited for developments. He declared that the ‘the flower of Buddhism would bloom that year (1968) in America with 5 petals’, and held the Shurangama Study and Practice Summer Session where over thirty students from the University of Washington in Seattle came to study the Buddhadharma, of which five was later ordained, marking the beginning of the Sangha in the history of American Buddhism. He stayed in United States for the rest of his life there in active propagation work, including establishing a network of monasteries, extensive translational works, and missionary world tours.

Founded the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association; City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah, California; Gold Mountain Monastery in San Francisco, California; the Institute of World Religions in Berkeley, California; and the International Translation Institute and a number of other monasteries across United States. He also founded various educational centers, including the Dharma Realm Buddhist University, the Developing Virtue Secondary School, and the Instilling Goodness Elementary School.

Although his teachings and practices focus primarily on the Ch’an school of Buddhism, he often lectured on Pure Land practice and study.

Biography: Records Life of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua.