INTRODUCTION OF HƯƠNG SEN LIBRARY
Hương Sen Library has a collection of more than 5,000 titles from the Buddhist Canon (Theravāda, Vajrayāna and Mahāyāna), along with books on various subjects (literature, poetry art, religion, history, astronomy, computer science) and Dharma periodicals, music DVDs, CDs in Vietnamese and English. The library includes the Bảo Anh Lạc Bookshelf with forty-five works written, composed and translated by Venerable Abbess Dr. Bhikhuni Giới Hương. These works include eleven Buddhist music albums from poems of the Abbess.
The library has two separate departments with Vietnamese and English and is currently under construction next to the main hall. Next year (2021), it will be officially opened to serve the readers. Please read in quiet and return books the same place after you reading.
Visitors can borrow any book and take it home. There is a notebook to write your name, the book name, your address (cellphone and email) and the date you are checking out and the date you will return it.
Building a good library is a large undertaking and we appreciate your visiting and support. If you'd like to help visit: http://huongsentemple.com/index.php/en/visit
Hương Sen Library is an integral part of Dharma education, helping Bhikkhunis, monastics, students, and practitioners research to open knowledge and understand the doctrines of Buddhism and others before entering the practice.
The library shop can be accessed online via Shop Online: (http://www.huongsentemple.com/index.php/vn/huong-sen-online) for purchases.
Library hours are 8 am to 6 pm every day including Saturday and Sunday. During this Covid pandemic, visitors are allowed. The Temple follows public health guidelines. For your safety, masks are required at all times and visitors must practice social distancing.
No need for membership. Everybody welcome!
A corner of Hương Sen Library
Reasons to ENJOY READING BOOKS:
– Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you (Barack Obama)
– Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. (Henry David Thoreau)
– All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. (Thomas Carlyle)
– Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
(Henry David Thoreau)
– Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. (John Adams)
– Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable. (Louisa May Alcott)
– The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries. (Rene Descartes)
Namo Amitabha Buddha.
Venerable Abbess Bhikkhuni Giới Hương
