Humble Table, Wise Fare: Inspiration - Rilegato

Yun, Hsing

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ISBN 10: 1932293566 ISBN 13: 9781932293562

Casa editrice: Buddhas Light Pub, 2011

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Humble Table, Wise Fare is a collection of charming aphorisms gathered over the many years of Venerable Master Hsing Yun's teaching career this international favorite is now available in a handsome minibook editions. Slight in size but grand in stature, the new minibook edition contains over one hundred new verses and quotes printed in both English and Chinese. Inspired by the Vegetable Root Sayings, the classic collection of Hong Zicheng's morality poems, each volume of Humble Table, Wise Fare brims with Chan wisdom, and makes a perfect gift for any lover of wisdom expressed with simplicity and elegance. This small, sturdy book is well-suited for daily contemplation and reading on the go.

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Venerable Master Hsing Yun is a Chinese Buddhist monk, author, philanthropist, and founder of the Fo Guang Shan monastic order, which has branches throughout Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Ordained at the age of twelve in Jiangsu Province, China, Master Hsing Yun has spent his over seventy years as a Buddhist monk building what he calls Humanistic Buddhism: Buddhism that meets the needs of people and is integrated into all aspects of life. In 1949, Master Hsing Yun came to Taiwan and began to nurture the new burgeoning Buddhist culture in Taiwan. He served as an editor and contributor to many Buddhist magazines and periodicals, authoring the daily columns "Between Ignorance and Enlightenment," "Dharma Words," and "Hsing Yun's Chan Talk," as well as starting his own Buddhist magazine, Awakening the World, in 1957, and the first daily Buddhist newspaper, the Merit Times, in 2000. Master Hsing Yun authored many important works including the Song of Silence, the Biography of Sakyamuni Buddha, and National Master Yulin. Master Hsing Yun also edited and sponsored the Fo Guang Encyclopedia, the most authoritative Buddhist reference work in the Chinese language. His contributions have reached as far as sponsoring Buddhist music and art, to creating Buddhist programming for television, radio, and the stage.

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• Editore: Buddhas Light Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1932293566
• ISBN 13: 9781932293562
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 246