Today, March 1, 2020, along with my classmate Pháp Hạnh (Vietnamese student) at Riverside Community College, I come to visit Hương Sen Temple and learn more about Buddhism in a large environment. We are very happy to see Venerable Bhikkhunī Thích Nữ Giới Hương and her nun disciples, who extend a warm welcome to us. We chant and take lunch together. The tranquil beautiful temple is a good place for the development of Buddhism. I hope the abbess’ mission will be successful and perfect in the near future.
We are Dharma brother and sister, even though I am a Thai monk from the Theravada tradition and she is from the Mahayana tradition. With our missions, we hope to make Buddhism dynamic in the American community. I think we can serve the community in our own Dharma way. The Buddha teaches us to be kind and to help each other with a pure heart and sincerity.
We are happy to know that on March 22, 2020, Hương Sen Temple will hold a party to celebrate the collection, Forty Years in the Dharma: A Life of Study and Service - Venerable Bhikkhunī Giới Hương. On this occasion, I would like to say thank you to Venerable Thích Nữ Giới Hương for her contributions, dedication and determination to build this beautiful Buddhist temple in this remote area.
Delightful are the forests where worldlings delight not;
the passionless will rejoice [therein],
[for]) they seek no sensual pleasures.
Dhammapada, Verse 99[1]
Riverside Community College
March 1, 2020
Best regards,
Bhante Phar Natthapon Khantiko
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[1] Dhammapada, Verse 99, Tranlated into English by the Most Venerable Narada, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1963, 1971.
https://thuvienhoasen.org/a10361/07-pham-a-la-han-the-worthy-90-99
Bhante Phar Natthapon Khantiko and nuns chanting
Bhante Phar Natthapon Khantiko, Bhikkhunī Giới Hương (third from right)
nuns, Viên Bảo Sen and Pháp Hạnh
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