On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, we celebrate the Original Teacher Shākyamuni’s Enlightenment Day. On this day, we make an...

四十八愿度众生 九品咸令登彼岸 He has made forty-eight vows to deliver sentient beings, Enabling them to arrive in nine levels at the opposite shore....

One time, when the Buddha was preaching the Dharma at the Vulture Peak near the city of Rājagṛha in Magadha, two hundred heavenly beings...