馬汀•維和文博士（果廷居士）現任法界佛教大學「佛教經典」教授、柏克萊聯合神學研究院「比較宗教」兼任教授，每週並在柏克萊佛寺教翻譯與打坐。 果廷居士於1970年代為福特奬學金史丹福大學訪問學者，1976年起，追隨上宣下化老和尚學習佛法，1977年在上人座下出家，法號恒朝。同年和恒實法師一起，為祈求世界和平展開三步一拜朝聖之旅 ，從洛杉磯金輪寺一直拜到達摩鎮萬佛聖城，全程600哩，歷時兩年半圓滿。1979年恒朝法師受具足戒，出家年頭前後合計18年。 果廷居士在威斯康辛大學麥迪遜分校獲美國與亞洲宗教交會博士學位，專長的領域是佛教的歷史教化、歐美與亞洲宗教的交會、以及宗教同化的過程。 Martin Verhoeven is currently a professor of Buddhist Classics at Dharma Realm Buddhist University, and an adjunct professor of Comparative Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He also teaches a weekly translation and meditation series at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. Dr. Verhoeven was a visiting scholar at Stanford University under the Ford Fellowship in the 1970s. From 1976 onwards, he followed the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua to learn the Buddhadharma and left the home life under the master in 1977. His monastic name was Heng Chau. Together with dharma master Heng Sure, he embarked on the three step one bow pilgrimage for world peace. They bowed all the way from the Gold Wheel monastery in Los Angeles to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, a 600-mile journey that took two and a half years to complete. In 1979, dharma master Heng Chau took the full monastic precepts and stayed as a left-home person for 18 years. After he returned to lay life, he completed his Ph.D. on American and Asian religions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His areas of expertise include the historical teachings of Buddhism, the interactions between Euro-American and Asian religions, and the process of religious acculturation. You can now watch Dr Martin's meditation lectures on RU-vid. 點擊連結觀看馬汀博士的線上課。 ru-vid.com/group/PLIIDc2zUth8Q4WxgOC2veryWAjOIUPmMv
accidentally watched one of the clips a day before, got attracted by Master Hua's teachings and wisdom to his disciples, I've watched all of the clips overnight, I feel so rejoice and happy, this is very fruitful to me and I thank all the Masters and crews efforts in creating all the clips and maintaining this channel, sincerest gratitude from Malaysia, sadhu.
Thank you for Master Hsuan Hua's great compassion. If he did not save him, we would not have been able to hear and learn from this story. In return the story will help touch many people.
feel so touched. i can sense the sincerity and how incredibly lucky our lives are if we have an opportunity to understand what we chase is totally a trick produced by our self-esteem and desire. May people be peaceful and come back to empty space at wishes.
I believe so..When Sifu 1st trip to Malaysia Hoeh Beng Temple my Mom was helping to take care Sifu & delegates early morning meals.My Mom told me she witnessed couple of miraculous incidents by Sifu.By the way very happy to hv a selfie with Ven Heng Sure during his recent visit to BGF (Buddhist Gems Fellowship) Malaysia. Amitofo.🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much Marty for the explanation. Every should realise how difficult it is when dying like cow tearing it's skin away(as per Ven Master sutra commentaries), how it feels when eight conciousness leave the body and what is it looks like when the judgement day came. We all should cut off anger, greed & stupidity and uphold precept, samadhi and wisdom 感恩 为我们解释. 每个人都应该知道死亡有多困难就像牛剥皮一样. 更瞭解中陰身的情況. 我们都应该 断貪,瞋,癡
this video enhances my knowledge of the Bardo. I do hope Marty appreciates that his Guru brought him back to life ( he said he didn't understand why his Srifu brought him back to life). If your Srifu just let you go/die, probably you wouldn't have a good rebirth. Since you 'died' then you consumed all your virtues, as well as cleared away your non-virtuous deeds. You have a brand new life, which your Srifu wished you to start accumulating merits, and only merits and virtues so when your final day arrives, you only have merits and hopefully able to be reborn in the Amitabha's pure realm. be grateful to your Srifu.
This is seriously eye opening mind opening to me. Grateful I'm awaken to Buddhism in my life time, and grateful to come across this video, grateful to all the masters here with their life time commitment and precious sharing. 南无阿弥陀佛。appreciation from Singapore.
🙏Cuộc đời của con cũng đã có thể chấm dứt từ lâu vì những nghiệp ác mình đã tạo... Thật may là con kịp nghe thấy lời dạy của Tuyên Công và kịp dừng lại. Nếu không có Tuyên Công xuất thế thì không biết số phận mình rồi còn thê thảm như thế nào nữa! 🙏🙏🙏NAM MÔ A DI ĐÀ PHẬT
Wow, con nghe cũng rùng mình luôn. Như lời chư tổ có dặn "nghiệp thức dẫn dắt", thấy hết những tội ác và thiện như một cuốn phim trước mắt, làm sao chối cải cho được! Thành kính tưởng niệm thiện hữu tri thức đã chỉ ra cho con. Nam mô A Di Đà Phật.
