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Zen and Dharma Workshop:
An Analytical Study of
Our Mind Process
Conducted by Venerable
Yung Ku
Date: Thursdays,
October 23 to December
18, 2008
(8 Sessions)
Time:
6PM to 8:30PM
Place: 25 West 43rd
Street, Room 1000,
between
5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan
Fee:
$50
(Non-Member) |
Free (Member/Student)
Click Here
to learn how to
become a member.
Light refreshments
served.
Please make checks
payable to: QCAF-AAARI
With a history of over
2,550 years, the
religion and philosophy
of Buddhism is the most
profound education by
the Buddha. This
eight-session course
will delve into the
teachings of the
Yogacara School of
Buddhism, also known as
the “consciousness-only
school”, a fourth
century outgrowth of
Mahayana Buddhism. In
Yogacara theory, all
phenomenal existence is
fabricated by
consciousness; all
objects, internal and
external, are mental
constructs which only
exist as part of our
awareness and their
nature is imaginary. Our
conscious-experience is
nothing but false
discriminations or
imaginations.
Through the study of
Yogacara theories, we
will have an insight of
our mind process and
able to see through the
motives of our actions
and intentions. We can
gradually turn our
consciousness, which is
the distinction making
activity of the mind,
into wisdom, a state of
total awareness and
understanding of the
true nature of all
things. Through lecture
and interactive
discussion, topics such
as “The Eight
Consciousness”, “The One
Hundred Dharmas”, and
“the Power of Karma”
will be extensively
explored.
Note:
Lecture and discussions
will be given in
Mandarin Chinese, and
simultaneously
translated into English
through audio
assistance.
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Speaker
Biography
Venerable
Yung Ku was
born in Taiwan
in 1962,
renounced in Fo
Guang Shan
Monastery at age
twenty-two and
fully ordained
in the same
year. As a third
generation
disciple of
Venerable Hsing
Yun, she
perpetuates the
mission of
promoting
Humanistic
Buddhism.
Venerable Yung Ku served
in many
positions of Fo
Guang Shan
Monastery
including the
Director of the
Religious
Affairs
Committee, the
Head of Student
Affairs of the
Female Buddhist
University and
the Assistant
Secretary of
Buddha's Light
International
Association (BLIA),
North America,
which is a lay
service
organization
having more than
one million lay
Buddhist members
all over the
world. She was
also appointed
as the Head
Abbess of
International
Buddhist
Progress Society
(IBPS), of
Edmonton,
Vancouver and
Toronto in
Canada. Since
2006, she has
become the Abbess of IBPS,
New York and
Deer Park in
upstate New
York.
Venerable Yung
Ku is not only a
person of utmost
sincerity and
forbearance but
also a person of
loving-kindness
and compassion.
Fo Guang Shan
Monastery was
founded by
Venerable
Master Hsing Yun
in 1967. Since
then it has
evolved from a
mountaintop
bamboo forest to
the largest
Buddhist
monastery in
Taiwan. Master
Hsing Yun has
inspired the
selfless
devotion of over
1,500 monastics
as well as the
ardent support
of many lay
devotees to
assist him in
bringing
confidence, joy,
hopes, and
providing
service to
countless
others.
Presently Fo
Guang Shan has
over 200 branch
temples
throughout the
world carrying
out the goals of
propagating
Humanistic
Buddhism and
establishing a
Pure Land on
earth.
Related Links
for References:
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http://fgs.ca/english/index.html
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