Shroud - Four Dharmas - Penitence.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

1. When we come to the temple, we often hear the Tam bao offering, so what do Buddhists understand?

Offer means to provide and nurture. We provide and nurture the Three Jewels so that the Three Jewels can survive for the benefit of sentient beings. Must make offerings with respect, respect, absolutely avoid arrogant attitude, blessing.

2. What is the purpose of the offering?

There are 3 purposes: 
- Maintain the throne of the Three Jewels that exist to continue the teaching of sentient beings. 
- Development of the Three Jewels to suit the new era, not being lost, backward 
- Protecting the Three Jewels from the forces of harassment and conspiracy.

3. Tam seems to offer what parts?

It seems that the three jewels include: 
- The Buddha seems to say 
- The Dharma seems to be told 
- The Sangha seems to offer

4. Present the offering How does the Buddha say the right thing?

Although Buddha passed away, we still offer Buddha food and drinks to envision the Buddha still living teaching us to study.

It is not advisable to express a spirit and a wastefulness. The Buddha's offerings are literally:

1. Scent
2. Light
3. fresh flower
4. Fruits
5. Clear water

Sometimes adding white rice is enough.

But the most precious thing to offer to Buddha is 5 miraculous dishes:

1. Gender : we must keep the precepts pure to deserve to be Buddha's children
2. Determination of concentration: Calm down the mind, do not let it be disturbed or infatuated
3. Hue incense : Pay attention to literature, private and spiritual practice. It means learning the Buddha's teachings, then thinking, pondering, and resolving to practice.
4. Good liberation : breaking down the ego, always the selfless, the four is not, the karmic discernment is also not.
5. Liberation of tri incense : destroying the law, not seeing the land, water, wind, fire are real, happy and sad, happiness is true.

5. Please present the offerings How to say the correct meaning?

First of all, study and study Buddha's teachings to understand the nobility of that teaching.

After that, if there is finance, it is recommended to export the sutras in the classic, popular in many places.

People with educational attainment should preach the dharma to everyone who understands, or composes literature, reasoning for readers to imbue, or translate sutras from foreign languages ​​into Vietnamese.

6. Please present the offerings How to say the right things?

Monks are people who replace the Buddha and pass on the teachings to us, so we must provide and nurture the monks.

The attitude of offering must be respectful, respectful, not high, regardless of which monastery in the temple, which country; Any one who is in the Sangha ranks, we keep offering.

Should choose the necessary items for the true life of monks and nuns, should not follow the personal tastes of the other person, but offer offerings that are not righteous to the Dharma; but the recipient is also guilty.

7. How many levels does it seem?

There appears to be 3 levels:

• Material offerings
• Dear believers
• Hanh offered

Gifts of offerings : is offering Buddha, Bodhisattva and monks to increase materials such as food, flowers, clothes, objects ...

Beliefs and offerings : is to offer a sincere heart and absolute faith in Buddha. Part of the glass is higher than offerings.

Hanh offered : is to transform the teachings of Buddha into actions that benefit beings. This is the highest offering.

8. What is the Four Dharma Definition?

Fourth is 4. Photography is a win. Dharma is the method. Benefit is to benefit others. Four Dharma Dharma  is the four methods of benefiting to capture beings.

9. What are the methods of the Four Dharma Sutra?

The Four Dharma Sutra consists of four methods: the alms of the photographer, Ai language of the photographer, Loi Hanh anh and Dong the regent.

10. What is alms photography?

The father of regent  is to bring what he has to help others, admire them, let them dear and return to the religion.

Giving is composed of 3 parts: Experiment, Dharma and Lt.

a. Talent  (money is money, material) is to bring money, material and alms, to help people who are poor and in need. In the financial resources of photography, there are 2 parts: 
- Foreign resources are money and material they own 
- Internal resources are assets in place of themselves, such as body and effort. The poor do not have money to give alms, they can still help others with their effort and body, such as donating human blood, donating their bodies to science, or giving up the damaged road, taking the old man across the road. .

b. The dharma  (the dharma of the Buddha's teaching) is to bring the precious teachings of the Buddha to give, to teach beings. Or bring the business methods, careers that teach others, help them live in a stable way.

c. The fearlessness  (fearless is fearless) is to bring fearlessness to sentient beings, to protect and protect, to help them be calm and peaceful.

11. What is a photographic language?

The language of photography  is cleverly using gentle words, comforting, exhorting, making sentient beings to admire, and from there they follow us to the path.

12. What is photography?

Taking advantage of photography  is to benefit people with thoughts, words, or actions, making people feel affection and follow us to study.

For example: covering roads, bridging, helping to help heavy vehicles, introducing help to jobs, building orphanages, nursing homes, charitable cooking for hospitals ...

1 3. What is a photographer?

Colleagues  are facilitating to work together, see work as a means to be close, to help those who do the job, so that they can admire us and go to religion.

Uniform photography  is the most effective method because we can do it regularly every day, and thanks to them touching them in the same work environment, understanding their thoughts, desires, can help one more practical way. And every day we set a good example for Buddhists to see, they will be very grateful.

14. What are the benefits of the Four Dharma Sutra?

-  Personally : I will sow the seeds of goodness for myself later on to achieve good results

-  In terms of family : everyone is altruistic, virtuous, the family will be warm and quiet.

-  Socially : we will cause a good influence and convert some social circumstances. The more people practicing Tu Nhac Phap, the more pure and prosperous society is.

15. What is penance?

Repeating is the first repentance. Cheating is to leave the following error. Repentance means regreting the mistakes that have been made and vowing not to repeat again.

16. What types of repentance are used?

There are many ways of repenting, but now temples often apply the method of  Hong Danh penitence . This Dharma recites the 88 titles of Buddha, plus the verse of  Samantabhadra , which is 108, to imply that the section except 108 negativity.

Red list of Buddhas has inconceivable merit. Those who become sincere in this penitential rite will eradicate the sins created in the present life and many past lives, without falling into three evil paths. END=AM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.17/7/2019.