VAJRA BODHI SEA

NOVEMBER, MAHAYANA 3001 THERAVADA 2517

Volume V

Series 12, No. 56

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Table of Contents

Bodhi Seal of the Patriarchs—Ming Dhyana Master Chen K’o

Across the Sea of Suffering

The Earth Store Bodhisattva Sutra

Records of the Lives—The Venerable Gunavarman (continued from 55)

Pictorial Biography of the Venerable Hsu Yun

Dharma Talks

Sanskrit Lesson

The Bodhi Mirror—Dharma Master Liu Ng

The Bodhi Lectern—Upasaka Charles C.Y. Wu

News from the Dharma Realm

The Water Episode

Bodhisattva Precepts Transmitted

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