Becoming Buddha -a Video
Don't miss this brilliant video presentation by Robert Thurman, Uma Thurma's father, and Je Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University. Khapa,1357-1419, is widely regarded in Tibet as a second Buddha and the main teacher of the first Dalai Lama, Gendun Drub.
Thurman became the first American monk of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition at the age of 24, and is the co-founder and president of Tibet House New York and currently holds the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States.
Thurman is one of tyhe world's leading authorities on the Gelukpa (dge-lugs-pa) school of Tibetan Buddhism and its founder, Je Tsong Khapa and his Speech of Gold: Reason and Enlightenment in the Central Philosophy of Tibet, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Essential Tibetan Buddhism, and his most recent, Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Happiness.
A close friend of Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama, Dr. Thurman, has served as occasional translator to the 14th Dalai Lama.
White Universe
Ice in the sky, snow on the ground,
Numberless tiny bugs die in the cold or sleep in hibernation.
In the midst of stillness you should contemplate;
Within movement you should investigate.
Dragons spar and tigers wrestle in the continual playful sport;
Ghosts cry and spirits wail, their illusory transformations strange.
Ultimate truth is not thought about or talked about;
You ought to advance with haste.
With great and small destroyed, with no inside or out,
It pervades every mote of dust and encompasses the Dharma Realm--
Complete, whole, and perfectly fused,
Interpenetrating without obstruction.
With two clenched fists, shatter the covering of empty space;
In one mouthful swallow the source of seas of Buddha-lands.
With great compassion rescue all, sparing no blood or sweat,
And never pause to rest.
-Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
Posted by: LAI TU TRAN | August 07, 2008 at 06:23 AM
White Universe
Ice in the sky, snow on the ground,
Numberless tiny bugs die in the cold or sleep in hibernation.
In the midst of stillness you should contemplate;
Within movement you should investigate.
Dragons spar and tigers wrestle in the continual playful sport;
Ghosts cry and spirits wail, their illusory transformations strange.
Ultimate truth is not thought about or talked about;
You ought to advance with haste.
With great and small destroyed, with no inside or out,
It pervades every mote of dust and encompasses the Dharma Realm--
Complete, whole, and perfectly fused,
Interpenetrating without obstruction.
With two clenched fists, shatter the covering of empty space;
In one mouthful swallow the source of seas of Buddha-lands.
With great compassion rescue all, sparing no blood or sweat,
And never pause to rest.
-Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
Posted by: LAI TU TRAN | August 07, 2008 at 06:23 AM