Dharma Talks @ SBZC
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Part 2 of Kaizan Doug Jacobson’s Dharma Talk: Refining Practice 8.21.21
Part 1 of Kaizan Doug Jacobson’s Dharma Talk: Refining Practice 8.21.21
Bill Powell continues leading SBZC in examination and discussion of: Red Pine, The Platform Sutra, The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng, Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2006; Taigen Dan Leighton, Just This is It, Dongshan and the Practice of Suchness, Boston: Shambala, 2015 ; and William Powell (trans.), The Record of Tung-shan, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. https://terebess.hu/zen/Tung-shanPowe..
Bill is a retired professor of Chinese religions, having spent his 30-year professional career at the University of California Santa Barbara. He earned a B.A. in Philosophy at the University of the Pacific, an M.A. in Chinese language at the University of Hawaii and his PhD in Buddhist Studies at the University of California Berkeley. He spent three years affiliated with Kyoto University as a research scholar, studying early Chan Buddhism and Song period discourse records under the generous and infinitely patient tutelage of Professor Seizan Yanagida. He began Zen practice in 1965 at the Diamond Sangha in Honolulu under Robert Aitken, Katsuki Sekida and Yasutani Roshi.
The Venerable Miaozang is currently the Superintendent of Hsi Fang Temple and the President of San Diego Buddhist Association. She started her service in San Diego since October 2014. She is born and raised in Malaysia. She joined Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, based in Kaohsiung Taiwan in 2003 and made lifetime vow in renouncing as a Buddhist Monastic in Jan. 2006. She was given the renounced name of Venerable Miaozang (Chinese name which means auspicious treasures). After four years’ Buddhist training, she graduated with distinction in Master of Arts in Buddhist Studies in Fo Guang Shan Tsung Lin University. After graduation, she was assigned in different Buddhist temples in Taiwan, serving the community by leading meditation and Buddhist practices. Then, she was assigned to serve at Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights, in 2009 to 2014 in teaching Buddhist studies and leading meditation retreats there. Also, there were consistent outreach to different educational institutions in sharing a few significant Buddhist celebrations, like Chinese New Year, Buddha’s Birthday, Sangha Day and etc. At the same time, she also volunteered in administration at the University of the West, located in Rosemead, Los Angeles, which is an affiliated higher education institution of Fo Guang Shan.