Inheriting and lighting the Dharma lamp, Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương has given her best to preach and serve Buddhism.
With diligence and wisdom penetrating impermanence, she has constantly contributed without pause, by translating, editing, and publishing many Buddhist scriptures.
Reviewing her missionary career is to mark her strong will and compassion: she has lived her life for the sake of humanity. After nearly ten years of study in India, she earned a doctorate in Buddhist philosophy. She was destined to go to the United States to study, continue the path of propagation, and do Buddhist works. With the support of Buddhists and her family, she was able to establish Hương Sen Temple in Southern California.
Hạnh Quang had the good fortune to meet Bhikkhuni Giới Hương in the 1980s in many Buddhist classes, such as Two Important Chanting Courses (Nhị Khóa Hiệp Giải) with the late Venerable Kim Cương, Awakening Words from Quy Sơn Ancestor (Quy Sơn Cảnh Sách) with Venerable Lệ Trang at Hòa Bình Pagoda (Phú Nhuận district), and the four-year (1990–1994) course on literature at Humanities Science University (at Đinh Tiên Hoàng Street), as well as while studying abroad in India. On September 19, 2005, both of us, together with Venerable Nhuận Thông and Venerable Nhuận Dung, went to the US for the first time to attend a conference at the University of the West (Hsi Lai Temple, Fo Guang Shan in California, USA). After that, Venerable Nhuận Dung and Bhikkhuni Giới Hương decided to stay in the United States, while Venerable Nhuận Thông and Hạnh Quang returned to Vietnam. Since 2016, Bhikkhuni Giới Hương has often come back to Vietnam to teach Buddhism at Vietnam Buddhist University and has also come to Diệu Giác Pagoda to teach at the Đức Tâm Buddhist Youth Association and many other temples. Hạnh Quang has also gone to the US several times to visit Bhikkhuni Giới Hương. During those times, I was invited to teach the Vinaya and sutras to her nun disciples at Hương Sen Pagoda. We have cherished our spiritual friendship and supported the Buddha's works together. To me, Bhikkhuni Giới Hương is a good model for diligence and devotion to the dharma, which originates from her compassion and the nectar of her insight.
Hạnh Quang wishes that Bhikkhuni Giới Hương and her disciple nuns will always develop Bodhi mind and further increase their will to propagate the Dharma for the benefit of sentient beings. Her virtuous fragrance spreads throughout the world.
Namo Amitābha Buddha.
November 7, Earth Pig Year
Venerable Bhikkhuni Hạnh Quang
Lecturer of Middle Buddhist School, Dist. 9, HCMC
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Ven. Hạnh Quang and Ven. Giới Hương at the pretty bonsai front of
Fujinobo Kaen Hotel, Mt. Fuji, Japan, October 20, 2017
Ven. Hạnh Quang teaching Vinaya for
Bhikkhunis at Hương Sen Temple ngày 6 tháng 1 năm 2020
Ven. Hạnh Quang (fourth right), Rev.Quảng Đạo and Ven.Trừng Sỹ
Ven. Giới Hương and nuns at Hương Sen Temple front yard
January 7 2020
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