Time passes as quickly as a shuttle
Ven. Giới Hương, abbess of Hương Sen Temple,
Forty years—a lifetime
Inclination to ordain as a great nun.
Practicing under the guidance of the true Dharma
Thanks to a predestined relationship to meet a master,
Propagation to benefit beings everywhere
Following the ancestors, "ordained for a cause."
Ven. Giới Hương spent forty years in monastery
"Taking steps up to a wide land"
Keeping conduct as a nun,
"A body different from the lay Buddhist’s, for the sake of all beings."
Leading the life of a holy sage in a nunnery,
Not wasting a lifetime at the Zen door
Appreciating your valuable time,
From my heart, I respectfully praise you.
Morality spreads far and near
Spiritual fragrance offered to the Blessed One
Disciple engraves in the heart,
Ordaining is supreme moral merit.
The vow of self-benefit and other-benefit
Fulfilling the wish Gautama Buddha proved.
Hương Sen Temple, celebrating a new day, January 1, 2020
Truthfully,
Venerable Bhikkhuni Tâm Nhựt
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Left: Ven. Tâm Nhựt, the Most Ven. Nguyên Thanh (standing),
and Bhikkhuni Giới Hương teaching the precepts to the nuns
at the summer retreat at Điều Ngự Temple, June 2019
Ven. Tâm Nhựt (right), Ven. Hiếu Đức (abbess of Linh Quang Temple, Pennsylvania)
with Ven. Giới Hương (left) at the old Hương Sen Temple on Fir Street, Moreno Valley, California, 2013
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