News from True Cultivators: Letters to the Venerable Abbot Hua

News from True Cultivators: Letters to the Venerable Abbot Hua
This book depicts an important period in Master Hsuan Hua's work to introduce Orthodox Chinese-style Buddhism to America, along with previously unknown approaches to Buddhist practice. Embarking on a traditional-type pilgrimage through California, authors Heng Sure and Heng Chau write letters to their master, displaying remarkably un-Buddhistic self-obsession, which makes for sometimes tedious reading. But the letters are juxtaposed with the transcendental wisdom of Master Hua and quotations from the Avatamsaka Sutra. While the 2 monks' spiritual growth is not evident in this volume, they certainly deserve an A for Effort.

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Avatamsaka Sutra

The Avatamsaka Sutra is one of the richest texts of Buddhism, revered as a treasure of sensual imagery and as a vast storehouse of wisdom. Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, this definitive translation contains all 39 books of the sutra, along with an introduction and Cleary's translation of Li Tongxuan's commentary to the final book, the Gandavyuha, or Entry into the Realm of Reality.

"The Avatamsaka is really the consummation of Buddhist thought, Buddhist sentiment and Buddhist experience. To my mind, no religious literature in the world can ever approach the grandeur of conception, the depth of feeling and the gigantic scale of composition attained by this Sutra. Here not only deeply speculative minds find satisfaction, but humble spirits and heavily oppressed hearts, too, will have their burdens lightened. Abstract truths are so concretely, so symbolically represented here that one will finally come to a realization of the truth that even in a particle of dust the whole universe is seen reflected - not this visible universe only, but a vast system of universes, conceivable by the highest minds only." D.T.Suzuki.

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