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	<title>Venerable Master Chin Kung</title>
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	<description>Basic Beliefs of Buddhism</description>
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		<title>The Filial Piety Sutra</title>
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The Sutra About The Deep Kindness of Parents
And Difficulty of Repaying It
Thus I have heard:
At one time, the Buddha dwelt at Shravasti, in the Jeta Grove, in the Garden of the Benefactor of Orphans and the Solitary, together with a gathering of great Bhiskshus, twelve hundred fifty in all and with all of the Bodhisattvas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liao Fan&#8217;s Lesson 4 – The Benefit of the Virtue of Humility</title>
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Lesson 3 – The Way to Cultivate Kindness

	Narrator: The third lesson taught us the ways to accumulate kind deeds. Naturally, it would be best if people would practice kindness, but as humans, we are social beings. It is impossible not to encounter others; therefore, it is important to know the ways to improve ourselves when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liao Fan&#8217;s Lesson 3 – The Way to Cultivate Kindness</title>
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Lesson 2 – Ways to Reform

Narrator: The previous chapter spoke about the many ways to correct our faults in this present life, naturally assuring that a good life will not become a bad one. However, we are still unable to transform a bad life into a good one. Though we may be good and virtuous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liao Fan&#8217;s Lesson 2 – Ways to Reform</title>
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Lesson 1 – Learning to Create Destiny

Narrator: How can we be free from faults when were not born as sages or saints? Confucius once said&#8230;
Confucius: One with faults should not fear to correct them.
Narrator: After Liao-Fan spoke of the ways to create destiny, he proceeded to tell his son about the three ways to reform. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liao Fan&#8217;s Lesson 1 – Learning to Create Destiny</title>
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Introduction – Back to Liao Fan&#8217;s 4 Lessons

Narrator: &#8216;Creating Destiny&#8217; is about forming one&#8217;s fate rather that being bound by it. The Lesson of Learning to Creating Destiny discusses the principle behind fate and the knowledge necessary to change it. By relating his own experience and trials at changing destiny, Mr. Liao-Fan Yuan taught his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liao Fan’s 4 Lessons</title>
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Changing One&#8217;s Destiny
了 凡 四 訓 ， 英 文 版
Introduction

Lesson 1 &#8211; Learning to Create Destiny
Lesson 2 &#8211; Ways to Reform
Lesson 3 &#8211; The Way to Cultivate Kindness
Lesson 4 &#8211; The Benefit of the Virtue of Humility

Liao-Fan Yuan originally wrote Liao-Fan&#8217;s Four Lessons in the 16th century in China. The book was intended to teach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>地藏菩薩本願經</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TABLE OF CONTENTS
[English Version - Ksitigarbha Sutra]
The sutra is divided into three parts

忉利天宮神通品第一
分身集會品第二
觀眾生業緣品第三
閻浮眾生業感品第四


地獄名號品第五
如來讚歎品第六
利益存亡品第七
閻羅王眾讚歎品第八
稱佛名號品第九


校量布施功德緣品第十
地神護法品第十一
見聞利益品第十二
囑累人天品第十三

讚地藏菩薩偈
稽首本然淨心地。 無盡佛藏大慈尊。 南方世界湧香雲。 香雨花雲及花雨。
寶雨寶雲無數種。 為祥為瑞遍莊嚴。 天人問佛是何因。 佛言地藏菩薩至。
三世如來同讚歡。 十方菩薩共歸依。 我今宿植善因緣。 稱揚地藏真功德。

忉利天宮神通品第一
如是我聞：
一時佛在忉利天， 為母說法。 爾時十方無量世界， 不可說，不可說， 一功諸佛，及大菩薩摩訶薩， 皆來集會， 讚歡釋迦牟尼佛， 能於五濁惡世，現不可思議，大智慧神通之力，調伏剛強眾生， 知苦樂法。 各遣侍者， 問訊世尊。
是時如來含笑，
放百千萬億大光明雲 ， 所謂大圓滿光明雲 ， 大慈悲光明雲 ， 大智慧光明雲 ，大般若光明雲 ， 大三昧光明雲 ， 大吉祥光明雲 ， 大福德光明雲， 大功德光明雲，大歸依光明雲，大讚歡光明雲，放如是等，不可說光朋雲已，又出種種微妙之音。
所謂：
檀波羅蜜音， 尸波羅蜜音，羼提波羅蜜音， 毗離耶波羅蜜音， 禪波羅蜜音， 般若波羅蜜音， 慈悲音， 喜捨音， 解脫音， 無漏音， 智慧音， [...]]]></description>
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		<title>48 Vows of Amitabha</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Infinite Life Sutra, 無量壽經 or Larger Pure Land Sutra, Sakyamuni Buddha spoke of how the Bodhisattva Dharmakara, after witnessing the suffering of sentient beings, spent five eons studying all the Buddha lands.
Dharmakara then made forty-eight vows, the fulfillment of which would create the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. He declared that he would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ksitigarbha Great Vows Sutra</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TABLE OF CONTENTS

Who is Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha?
[Chinese Version - 地藏菩薩本願經]

The sutra is divided into three parts

Chapter   1 &#8211; Divine Power in Trayastrimsa Heaven
Chapter   2 &#8211; Ksitigarbha Incarnated in the Assembly
Chapter   3 &#8211; Observing the Karma of All Beings
Chapter   4 &#8211; Beings&#8217; Karmic Retribution


Chapter   5 &#8211; Names of the Hells
Chapter   6 &#8211; Admiration from the Buddha
Chapter   7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who is Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;any good person who reads the Sutra or who worships Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha will earn extraordinary merits, be free of suffering due to past karma and ultimately, be born in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.

Ksitigarbha (地藏王菩薩; Dìzàng Wáng Púsà) is one of the four principal Bodhisattvas in Oriental Mahayana Buddhism. The others are Samantabhadra (普賢菩薩; [...]]]></description>
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