The Story
Product Description 'Whoever comes to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas... will become a Buddha in the future' Venerable Master Hsuan Hua From a large state hospital built in the 1930s to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas as we know it today, Master Hua describes the making of a place of true cultivation, the people and circumstances that make it a wellspring of Buddhism, and offers the City as sanctuary to unite people of all ages, station, nationality, ethnicity or religious denomination in the world. Find out what it means to those who have been here, and what it could mean to you too. About the Author The Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS) is dedicated to making the principles of the Buddhadharma available to Western readers in a form that can be directly applied to practice. Since the early 1970s, the Society has been publishing English translations of sutras, instructional handbooks on meditation and moral conduct, and biographies. Many of the Society s sutra translations are accompanied by contemporary commentary, based on lectures spoken by Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua.
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Product Description 'Whoever comes to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas... will become a Buddha in the future' Venerable Master Hsuan Hua From a large state hospital built in the 1930s to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas as we know it today, Master Hua describes the making of a place of true cultivation, the people and circumstances that make it a wellspring of Buddhism, and offers the City as sanctuary to unite people of all ages, station, nationality, ethnicity or religious denomination in the world. Find out what it means to those who have been here, and what it could mean to you too. About the Author The Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS) is dedicated to making the principles of the Buddhadharma available to Western readers in a form that can be directly applied to practice. Since the early 1970s, the Society has been publishing English translations of sutras, instructional handbooks on meditation and moral conduct, and biographies. Many of the Society s sutra translations are accompanied by contemporary commentary, based on lectures spoken by Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua.
