* The Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

Venerable Hsuan Hua meditating in the lotus position.

According to Venerable Hsuan Hua from the tradition of Chinese Buddhism, there are five types of beings who may speak the sutras of Buddhism: a buddha, a disciple of a buddha, a deva, a ṛṣi, or an emanation of one of these beings ; however, they must first receive certification from a buddha that its contents are true Dharma.

According to Venerable Hsuan Hua from the tradition of Chinese Buddhism, there are five types of beings who may speak the sutras of Buddhism: a buddha, a disciple of a buddha, a deva, a ṛṣi, or an emanation of one of these beings ; however, they must first receive certification from a buddha that its contents are true Dharma.

According to Venerable Tripitaka Master Bhikshu Shramana Hsuan Hua's " Shurangama Mantra Commentary " ( Buddhist Text Translation Society of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, 1981, Volume 1 ), the Shurangama Mantra mystically and literally includes all of the Buddha Dharma in its entirety, and its focus is on the Five Dhyana Buddhas ( Vairochana, Amitabha ), Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, and Amoghasiddhi, with stress on Vairochana and Ashobhya Buddhas ) and their retinues of Dharmapalas and wrathful deities in male and female forms, such as Vajrapani, wrathful Manjushri, Mahakala, Tara, Pandaravasini, Prakruti, Uchushma Fire Head Vajra, Brahma, Indra, Shiva as Rudra, Raudri-Umapati form of Vajrayogini, Narayana, Ganapati, various Dhakinis, Naga kings, Yaksha kings, Rakshasha kings, and many other Dharma Protectors of the Buddhist Pantheon and Vedic pantheon.

In 1990 he accepted the advice from the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas to build the temple in Irvine.

Outside of China, the influence of his teachings is strongest in Southeast Asia, particularly in Vietnam and Myanmar, as well as the Americas, where his teachings were transmitted through well known monastic students such as Venerable Hsuan Hua and Venerable Jy Din Shakya and Venerable Fo Yuan.

* Venerable Master Hsuan Hua ( 1983, 1985 ).

Venerable Hsuan Hua meditating in the Lotus Position.

Venerable Hsuan Hua lectured on the entire in 1968 while he was in the United States.

On the occasion of the opening ceremony for the Dharma Realm Buddhist University, Hsuan Hua presented Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda of the Theravada tradition with an honorary Ph. D.

All major services during the funeral were presided over by Venerable Ming Yang, abbot of Longhua Temple in Shanghai and a longtime friend of Hsuan Hua's.

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The City Of Ten Thousand Buddhas (, Vietnamese: Chùa Vạn Phật Thánh Thành ) is an international Buddhist community and monastery founded by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua, an important figure in Western Buddhism.

* Instilling Goodness Elementary and Developing Virtue Secondary Schools: The elementary ( kindergarten through 6th grade ) and secondary ( 7th grade through 12th grade ) schools were founded by the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua in 1976.

Some of the boarding school children are Westerners from the local community who want their children to grow up in a community-oriented place, while some of the children come from Taiwan and China, even from European countries, such as France, Belgium, and Holland, where parents think highly of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua.

Along with Zen teachers like Shunryu Suzuki-roshi, Seung Sahn Dae Soen Sa Nim, and Venerable Hsuan Hua, Maezumi greatly influenced the American Zen landscape.

Egbert had been a disciple of the Venerable Bede, who urged him to raise York to an archbishopric.

An example is provided by Wong Kiew Kit, who writes: " It was during this time that the Venerable Bodhidharma came from India to China to spread Buddhism.

He is known to have studied Euclid and to have translated the work of Al Battani and Avicenna, and it seems that he would not have made the translation for which he is famous, that of the Qur ' an, without the encouragement of the French Abbot Peter the Venerable, who wished to have access to Islamic texts.

In 1142 Robert and other scholars met with Peter the Venerable, who was visiting Spain, and Robert set to work translating the Qur ' an into Latin.

They were founded in 1538 in Naples by the Venerable Maria Laurentia Longo, who was Abbess of the Poor Clare monastery of that city.

: And near it they heaped an altar of small stones, and wreathed their brows with oak leaves and paid heed to sacrifice, invoking the Mother of Dindymum, Most Venerable, Dweller in Phrygia, and Titias and Cyllenus, who alone of many are called dispensers of doom and assessors of the Idaean Mother, – the Idaean Dactyls of Crete, whom once the nymph Anchiale, as she grasped with both hands the land of Oaxus, bare in the Dictaean cave.

When the reign of the House of Capet began, Vendôme formed the chief town of a county belonging to Bouchard, called " the Venerable ", who died in the monastery of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in 1007.

The tradition was established by the " Five Venerable Supreme Masters " starting with the grandson of Khonchog Gyalpo, Kunga Nyingpo, who became known as Sachen, or " Great Sakyapa ":

The Venerable Bede states that Erconwald, who became Bishop of London in 674, founded the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter of Chertsey in 666, and Frithuwald, who was sub-king or regent of Surrey, joined in the grant endowing the abbey with certain lands.

Pope Pius IX ( 1846 – 1878 ), Encyclical Quanto conficiamur moerore, August 10, 1863: " And here, beloved Sons and Venerable Brothers, We should mention again and censure a very grave error in which some Catholics are unhappily engaged, who believe that men living in error, and separated from the true faith and from Catholic unity, can attain eternal life.

* The Venerable Giorgio Baldassarre Oppezzi, a monk who died in 1525, and whose body was later discovered to be incorrupt, is buried here in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

The first recorded mention of Gateshead is in the writings of the Venerable Bede who referred to an Abbot of Gateshead called Utta in 623.

In the case of Venerable Hsin Ping ( who was originally Venerable Zhizong ), he was also not officially elected, as he was Hsing Yun's designated heir apparent.

She was inspired by her master and mentor, the late Venerable Master Yin Shun ( 印順導師, Yìn Shùn dǎoshī ), a significant proponent of Humanistic Buddhism, who exhorted her to: " work for Buddhism and for all sentient beings.

Therefore, Fo Guang Shan asked the Venerable Tzu Chuang ( who, upon the inception of the temple, became the founding and first abbess of Hsi Lai Temple ) and Yi Heng to plan and organize the construction of the temple in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Twelve nuns and employees of the temple, including then-abbess Venerable Yi Kung who would later resign from the abbotship because of the scandal, refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997.

The Venerable Mother Catherine Elizabeth McAuley ( born on 29 September 1778, at Stormanstown House, in Dublin, Ireland – died 11 November 1841, at the House of Mercy she had built on Baggot Street, Dublin ) was an Irish nun, who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831.

However, north of the Alps, Innocent gained the crucial support of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Peter the Venerable, and other prominent reformers who personally helped him to gain recognition from European rulers such as Emperor Lothar III, leaving Anacletus with few patrons.

This has been the case through the centuries, and more recently with popes such as Venerable Pius XII, Paul VI and Blessed John Paul II, who stated that he received his first Brown Scapular of Mount Carmel at age ten when his Marian devotion was taking shape and he continued to wear it into his papacy.

The Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw U Sobhana (, ; 29 July 1904 – 14 August 1982 ) was a Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and meditation master who had a significant impact on the teaching of Vipassana ( Insight ) meditation in the West and throughout Asia.

Venerable Hong Choon also initiated the monthly Great Compassion Prayer and taught the Dharma to benefit many.

She was taught by Venerable Samu Sunim, a Korean Zen Master who has established several Buddhist temples in North America.

Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

" Venerable / Heroic in Virtue " When enough information has been gathered, the congregation will recommend to the pope that he make a proclamation of the Servant of God's heroic virtue ( that is, that the servant exhibited the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance, to a heroic degree ).

Both the Vita Columbae and the Venerable Bede ( 672 / 673-735 ) record Columba's visit to Bridei.

Grave goods found from this period strongly suggest a large influx of people from the Anglian region of Schleswig in north Germany / south Denmark ( the Angles ), confirmed by the Venerable Bede.

The school, named after the Venerable Bede of England, naturally chose the heraldic symbol of the ancient Scots / English for courage.