Shi Kung Sheng Yen (????) telah wafat

[GandalfTheElder]

Saya sangat kagum pada Ven. Sheng yen, tidak menyangka bahwa beliau telah tiada... 

Beliau wafat tanggal 3 Februari 2009, hari ini.

Dr Dharmajala:



Shi Kung Sheng Yen telah wafat.
Semoga segala jasa dan kebajikan yang kita kumpulkan hingga saat ini, melimpah kepada Shi Kung Sheng Yen. 
Semoga Shi Kung kembali ke dunia untuk melanjutkan ikrar Bodhisattva-Nya.   

Semoga segala jasa dan kebajikan yang kita kumpulkan hingga saat ini, melimpah kepada semua makhluk. Semoga semua makhluk merealisasi ke-Buddha-an.


The Siddha Wanderer

[Sunkmanitu Tanka Ob'waci]

Salah satu guru besar Mahayana yang sangat dihormati

[chingik]

Tak kusangka guru yg sangat kukagumi telah meninggalkan kita.
Walaupun guru prefer mengajarkan Chan, tapi yg membuat ku terkagum2 beliau menulis buku ulasan ttg Nianfo . dan pernah mengatakan kalo tidak bermohon terlahir di Jingtu memangnya mau dilahirkan di mana lagi? . Ya meskipun demikian, master telah mencanangkan pengembangan RenJian Jingtu
Saat ku baca karyanya, seperti menenggak minuman dewata. Hormat utk guru tercinta.

[Mr. Wei]

Saya sering mendengar nama Beliau...

Namaskara dari saya untuk Beliau

[Nevada]

Semoga lekas merealisasi kebuddhaan.

[Pitu Kecil]

Semoga beliau terlahir ke alam yang diinginkan, gate gate para gate para sam gate bodhi svaha...

[Mr. Wei]

[morpheus]

"If you let go of every object of thought, you will be indistinguishable from everything, and you will disappear."

"The stream has no purpose, the water is simply flowing. Let it be so with practice."

"Stilling the mind is like catching a feather with a fan - every time you move the fan, the feather is likely to be blown away."

"After a bird has flown from one tree to another, what trace does it leave in the air?"

--Master Sheng-yen, in Dharma Drum

[SaddhaMitta]

 

[Adhitthana]

Namaskara utk Beliau 


Beliau wafat umur brapa yaak
bole cerita sedikit riwayat beliau 

thuti ...

[GandalfTheElder]

Ini beritanya di buddhistchannel:

Taiwan's Buddhist Master Sheng-yen dies
The Buddhist Channel, Feb 3, 2009
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taipei - Sheng Yen, one of Taiwan's four most respected Zen Buddhist masters, died of natural causes at the National Taiwan University Hospital Tuesday at the age of 79.

"He died of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome at around 4 pm (0800 GMT)," said a spokesman of the Dharma Drum Mountain, a Zen Buddhist centre established by the eminent monk.

Rated as one of Taiwan's 50 most influential people in 400 years, Sheng established the mountain retreat in Taipei County in 1989 to promote Zen Buddhism.

President Ma Ying-jeou said in a statement he was "saddened and shocked upon hearing the news" about the death of Sheng-yen, who the president said is "good at the use of language to touch people".

"The concept of spiritual conservation he advocated is not only religion but philosophy and attitude of living," Ma said, referring to the monk's relentless efforts to press for peace and a simple way of living.

"He was a highly valued and much respected master in Taiwan and we feel a big loss for his death," said Su Jun-pin, spokesman of Premier Liu Chao-shiuan.

The late master had hundreds of thousands of disciples, ranging from ordinary people to politicians and celebrities. Both incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou and his predecessor Chen Shui-bian sought advice from the master.

Born in a poor farming family in 1930 in eastern Jiangsu Province, Ven Sheng Yen became a monk at the age of 13 and went to Taiwan in 1949 after the civil war.

He joined the Kuomtiang army in 1949 and fled to Taiwan with the Kuomintang troops after they were defeated by the Chinese communist forces at the end of a civil war.

At the age of 39, he went to Japan for religious study and earned a master's degree and doctorate after six years of study.

He became a monk again in 1959 and trained in solitary retreat for six years in southern Taiwan. He completed a master's degree in 1971 and doctorate in Buddhist literature in Japan in 1975.

He became abbott of Nung Chan Monastery in suburban Taipei in 1979 and in 1989 founded the International Cultural and Educational Foundation of Dharma Drum Mountain.

As a Buddhist Zen school master, he taught a number of celebrities, including Chinese martial arts actor Jet Li as well as Lin Hwai-min, founder and artistic director of Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre.

Sheng taught dharma principles in the US, where he set up a meditation centre in New York in 1979, which earned him renown.

In the following years, he worked to promote Chan Buddhism at home and abroad. He had become a professor at the "Chinese Culture University," deputy director of the Buddhist Association of the United States and founded the Chung Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies.

Master Sheng Yen visited mainland China several times for religious exchanges.

After the deadly May 12 earthquake last year, he was actively engaged in quake relief work. The Dharma Drum Mountain planned to help rebuild four schools, a hospital, a water plant, a new village and set up a scholarship to fund children in quake-hit areas to finish the primary and secondary education.


The Siddha Wanderer

[GandalfTheElder]

What I am unable to accomplish in this lifetime, I vow to push forward through countless future lives; What I am unable to accomplish personally, I pray for everyone to join forces to promote

Busy with nothing, growing old.
Within emptiness, weeping, laughing.
Intrinsically, there is no "I."
Life and death, thus cast aside.
~ Venerable Master Sheng Yen

"Where there is life, there must be death. If one cannot face this reality it will become one's greatest barrier in life, if one can regard death merely as a fraction within the eternal time and space then death is not an end to life but the beginning of the next."
~ Venerable Master Sheng Yen


The Siddha Wanderer

[nyanadhana]

Semoga semangatnya menjadi semangat kemanusiaan bagi semua.

[Kelana]

  ^:)^

[Hendra Susanto]