Dear Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương,
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of your ordination and propagation of the dhamma, I offer a few words expressing my sincere respect.
I am your younger sister and also a disciple of Master Hải Triều Âm. I had heard that our Master had several disciples in America, including Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương. In 2015, through Ven. Bảo Liên's introduction, you invited me to come to the United States. I was very touched as I held your invitation because you don't know who I am, yet you still invited me. I heard that you also sponsored many brothers or sisters like that. Venerable Bhikkhuni Giới Hương is generous, tolerant, and willing to extend her arms to help us.
In 2016, some other nuns and I went to the United States for a month. We visited and experienced a field trip to learn and nurture our knowledge in the USA. At the end of 2016, we were honored to welcome you and your two disciples, Rev. Viên Quý and Rev. Viên Nhuận, to visit my Thiên Long Temple, Yên Nhân Village, Tiền Phong Commune, Mê Linh District, Hà Nội City. You led the retreat for Buddhists in Me Linh district (descendants of Hai Bà Trưng Ladies), and we deeply appreciated and admired you even more. After our master’s death, all of the Dharma sisters have been busy with their practice and temple affairs, and we rarely see and visit one another.
It is difficult to visit one another within the same country, let alone from abroad. Ven. TN Giới Hương and her nun disciples went to Hà nội to visit juniors such as me (Ven. Bhikkhuni Hải Quang of Thiên Long Temple), Ven. Kiến Đạo and Phương Tú (Trung Lư Pagoda, Tiền Châu Commune, Phúc Yên Province), Ven. TN Từ Ân (Hưng Ký Temple, Minh Khai Downtown, Hanoi City) and Ven. Như Hòa (Đồng Nai). This memory we remember forever.
Before finishing these words, we sincerely wish that Ven. Bhikkhuni TN Giới Hương and all of the disciples at Hương Sen be healthy and flourish, that the construction of the Buddha Hall be completed soon, and that the vast Bodhi tree bestows its shade on us forever.
Namo Amitabha Buddha.
Yên Nhân Village, November 11, 2019
Abbess Thiên Long Temple
Venerable Bhikkhuni TN Hải Quang
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Here are some beautiful pictures of when Ven. Giới Hương went to the North. We took her and two nun disciples to visit the northern temples as follows:
Ven. Giới Hương and Ven. Hải Quang at Cái Bầu Monastery, Quảng Ninh
with Master Thích Trúc Bảo Tú at Ba Vàng Monastery, Quảng Ninh
Cái Bầu Monastery, Quảng Ninh
Ven. Giới Hương, Ven. Hải Quang, Ven. Kiến Đạo, Ven. PhươngTú,
Ven. Nhu Hòa, and two nuns (Rev. Viên Quý and Rev. Viên Nhuận)
have tea at Thiên Long Tự
Nice elders at Thiên Long Temple
Please read all articles and view all photos:3.14.Connect_the_Dharma_sisterhood_-_Ven_Hai_Quang.pdf
