Choose the right path on this human journey
The whole time, live with compassion
Step onto the path of salvation
Live in religion, but never forget the secular.
Leading a noble life is opposite to the river’s flow
Forty years of trials within the self
Sacrificing health and time for the ideal
With steps here and there for propagation.
Study and practice is forever a treasure
For that truth we definitely search
Salvation is a wonderful, vast road
Like a freed bird flying in the middle of the sky.
Disciples of Tathagata living in this lifetime
A bowl and three robes, full of ideals
Sacrificing their entire lives for peaceful beings
Their hearts are gentle as the falling dew.
Giving love and understanding everywhere
The three realms are where they preach
May this body be sacrificed for religion
With the aim of improving human life.
Although tomorrow is the end of the journey
Making torches to illuminate the dark world
Open wide to opportunities
Manifest many bodies of happiness under the afternoon light.
Offering this to Venerable Bhikkhuni Thích Nữ Giới Hương for the collected book, Forty Years in the Dharma: A Life of Study and Service. We wish that you and all your nuns achieve many accomplishments on the right path and the preaching of Dharma abroad.
Beginning of winter in Đà Nẵng, December 2, 2019
Abbot of Tường Quang Pagoda
Bhikkhuni Thích Đức Trí
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A Classmate at the Advanced Buddhist Institute, Course II, and
Department of Bachelor of Arts at Tổng Hợp University, Ho Chi Minh City
The Most Venerable Đức Trí and Bhikkhuni Giới Hương at Vietnamese Buddhist University, i.e., the Advanced Buddhist Institute after thirty years (1989–2019)
Entire Course II class, meeting for the first time
At Vĩnh Nghiêm Monastery, April 14, 2019
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