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About Living Buddha Lian-sheng
Living Buddha Lian-sheng, also revered as Grand Master, is the root
lineage guru of True Buddha School. His emanation is from Mahavairocana to
Locana to Padmakumara. Grand Master holds lineages from the Nyingma,
Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
He is a prominent religious figure throughout the world. As of 2008,
over 5 million people have taken refuge in his True Buddha School. With over
300 chapters worldwide, the True Buddha School is recognized as a major
component in Buddhism today. Living Buddha Lian-sheng has written over
200 books in Chinese on topics such as Tantric Buddhism, Geomancy, Zen
Buddhism, and Taoism. Many of these books are now being translated into
English and various other languages.
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Disclaimer
Anyone who wishes to engage in any practice in this book must first take
refuge in True Buddha School and receive empowerment from Living Buddha
Lian-sheng or authorized True Buddha Masters.
In this book, mantras are translated using simple English phonetics. Sutras,
verses, and praises are translated using both English and hanyu pin yin. Students
should not assume that the translations can possibly emulate the exact
pronunciations of the Root Guru. It is highly recommended that students obtain
mantra tapes from local True Buddha temples or chapters, or consult with
authorized masters.
This book serves as a guideline for your daily practice. Please refer to Living
Buddha Lian-sheng’s books or consult with authorized masters for more detailed
explanations. If you have further questions, please write to the True Buddha
Foundation.
May the compassionate Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas,
and Dharma Protectors bless these translated practices. May the True Buddha
Tantric Dharma liberate all beings in the Six Realms of Transmigration.
For more information and other True Buddha School related materials,
please visit the following websites:
www.tbsn.org
www.padmakumara.org
First published in the monthly journal of True-Buddha Dharma, The Purple Lotus #46, September 1994
Reprint in www.padmakumara.org on May 3, 2008
Transmitted by Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Sheng-yen Lu Translated by Janny Chow
Painting is illustrated by Jia Lu and GMK Bonnycastle
Copyright solely belongs to Living Buddha Lian-sheng, Sheng-yen Lu
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Masters, fellow cultivators, good evening.
The Great Compassion Repentance Ceremony that we have just completed was
extremely successful. Before I sat down to do the meditation this evening, I told
myself that I would enter into a very deep Samadhi. I hoped that, while in the
Samadhi, I would experience a yogic response from the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva,
which I would later relate to everyone.
During the entire meditation, from beginning to end, my whole body was
completely filled with a spiritual energy. While sitting there, I once sipped some
tea, one slightly adjusted the position of my hands, and twice moved my big toes
ever so slightly. For the rest of the entire time, my body was completely
motionless. I'm grateful that the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva manifested himself to me.
I first saw the appearance of many points of sparkling light. Then all those points
of light assembled together to form a Kuan Yin Bodhisattva in the Empty Space.
This Kuan Yin Bodhisattva then taught me a practice called the Kuan Yin
Bodhisattva Shrine Protection Practice the Averts Disasters. He explained his
practice very carefully to meet three times.
To verbally describe his practice clearly might be somewhat difficult because
the Body Shrine revealed to me was very colorful. The only way to do it justice
would be to depict it in a painting. If we have an artist is here tonight, I can
describe it later to him or her, and would very much appreciate it if the image
The Kuan Yin (Avalokitesvara) Body
Shrine Protection Practice That Averts Disasters
(An Oral Teaching by Grand Master Shen-yen Lu at the Ling Shen Ching Tze
Temple, Redmond, Washington on July 23, 1994.)
--Translated by Janny Chow
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could be reproduced in a painting. In the future, if one faced an imminent disaster,
one could practice this Kuan Yin Body Shrine Practice and avert the disaster.
Although a verbal description will not be very clear, I will give it a try. The
Bodhisattva had to repeat the description three times before I was able to memorize
it completely. It is a very colorful and age. When you do this practice, you have to
do the following steps of visualization. Although the shrine in this practice is very
different from the shrine of the Wealth Gods of the Five Directions Practice, there
is a very slight resemblance between the two.
First, whether you are male or female, visualize the hair on your head gathering
together to transform into any Thousand Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin
Bodhisattva sitting atop the center of the shrine. Although monks and nuns have
their heads shaved, they should still visualize themselves with hair to undergo this
transformation. Next, visualize your eyes turning into strands of pearls which are
distributed in circles around the shrine. Visualize your nose transforming into
gemstones which are mounted as a second layer on the shrine, right below the
pearls. The pearls may be visualized as diamonds. So, below the layer of pearls or
diamonds formed from one's eyes is a layer of gems which is formed from one's
nose. Next visualize your teeth transforming into the necklaces worn by the Kuan
Yin Bodhisattva, and these are hung below the gems as a third layer. After this,
visualize your ears transforming into Buddhist banners with Om Mani Padme Hum
written on. These banners are hung all around the shrine.
Your eyes, nose, and mouth (teeth), ears, and hair have now transformed into a
Kuan Yin Shrine or Kuan Yin Mandala. He told me this: turn teeth into his
necklaces, nose into gems, eyes into diamonds and pearls. All these are very
valuable and precious objects.
Next, winds are generated from the soles of your feet. The soles of your feet
transform into a blue colored Wheel of Wind. Your root chakra transformed into a
red Wheel of Fire. The color of the first layer is blue while the color of the second
layer is red. The third layer is a green Wheel of Water which forms from your
navel chakra. The fourth layer is a yellow Wheel of Earth which is transformed
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from your heart chakra. These are the 4 layers of "Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind,"
with the wind on the bottom, followed by fire above wind, water above fire, and
earth above water. After forming these four layers, and next transform your spinal
column into the Mount Meru. Mount Meru is a pointed mountain which is brown
in color. On the mountaintop sits a person and you have to visualize that person to
be you your self.
When you do this visualization in your meditation practices, you are doing the
Kuan Yin Body Shrine Protection Practice that Adverts Disasters. This was what
Kuan Yin said, "If you run into some kind of disaster, if you know of an imminent
disaster, or if you are in the middle of the disaster, you can advert the disaster by
doing this practice."
Earlier, while I was sitting here, the Bodhisattva kept reminding me that I had
to memorize it vividly and explain it clearly. The colors have to be correct. That
is, the soles of the feet give rise to blue wind, the root chakra turns into the red fire,
the navel chakra turns into the green water, and the heart chakra turns into a yellow
earth. Then, atop the brown, pointed Mount Meru you yourself sit, about the size
of a grain of rice. On top of you, at the uppermost and, is Thousand Arms
Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin Bodhisattva. Your eyes have transformed into offerings
of pearls. Your nose has transformed into offerings of gems. Your teeth have
transformed into offerings of necklaces. Both of your ears have transformed into
Buddhist banners, inscribed with "Om Mani Padme Hum," and these are hung all
around the shrine. This is called, “the Kuan Yin Body Shrine Protection Practice
that Adverts Disasters.”
The Kuan Yin Bodhisattva related this description to me three times, then he
said, "As long as one does this visualization, chant my Heart Mantra, and entered
into deep meditation, one can advert all kinds of disasters." [Editor's note: On
September 4th, 1994, Grand Master announced at the Redmond Ling Shen Ching
Tze Temple that, as an alternative to "Om Mani Padme Hum", one may also chant
the Heart Mantra of the Thousand Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin which is,
"Namo, sam-man-do moo-toh-nam wah-re-la da-mo-seh"]
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What a wonderful practice this is! If you are aboard an airplane, as long as you
sit down you may do this practice. If you are driving, there might not seem to be
sufficient time to do this, as compared to an airplane flight. But, if you have
perseverance and if you are going on a long distance trip, you may still get inside
the car and do this practice before you start the engine. I can think of many other
good uses for this practice. For example, if there is an influenza epidemic caused
by one of the many types of flu viruses, you may do this practice beforehand. The
virus will stay outside the mandala and not go inside.
If you know that someone is being very mean to you and is trying to harm you,
you may do this practice. The Kuan Yin Bodhisattva will definitely protect you
and make the malevolent person go away. I also think that if you are ill now, by
doing this practice often, the Bodhisattva will also take care of you and help you to
get better soon.
I had not expected that, during this evening's Great Compassion Repentance
Ceremony, the Kuan Yin Bodhisattva would appear to transmit such a wonderful
protection practice. He described the visualization very clearly to me, including all
the colors. The shrine [mandala] he showed to me was very beautiful, especially
the Buddhist banners, which were waving in the wind. Very nice! When you go
home, you may make painting based on my description. Oh yes, there is also a
precious canopy above! The Bodhisattva also mentioned a precious canopy which
I forgot to tell you. [Audience laughter]
You have to transfer your skin into a precious canopy. I forgot to mention this
most important point. Transfer your skin into a precious canopy. Then from all
the skin pores, golden beams of light are in the all around the shrine. Your skin
becomes a precious canopy and all of the skin pores radiate light. This is how the
precious canopy of the shrine is derived. I forgot to mention this most important
part.
This is a method to transform one's own body into the Kuan Yin Body Shrine,
for the purpose of averting disasters. In this practice, one transforms one's body,
including the chakras in one's body, into the shrine. This also includes making an
offering out of one's own body. In this visualization, there is the presence of both
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Kuan Yin and oneself, with Kuan Yin guarding and protecting one. What a
wonderful practice! I hope this practice can benefit all of you and enable you to
avert all kinds of disasters. Thank you.
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Kuan Yin Body Shrine for Visualization drawn by Jia Lu and GMK Bonnycastle
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The Kuan Yin (Avalokitesvara) Body
Shrine Protection Practice That Averts Disasters A True Buddha School Practice Text
1. Visualize the hair on your head gathering together to transform into a
Thousand Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin Bodhisattva sitting atop the
center of the shrine.
2. Transform your skin into a precious canopy. Then from all the skin pores,
golden beams of light are emitted all around the shrine.
3. Visualize your eyes turning into strands of pearls or diamonds which are
distributed in circles around the shrine.
4. Visualize your nose transforming into gemstones which are mounted as a
second layer on the shrine, right below the pearls.
5. Visualize your teeth transforming into the necklaces worn by Kuan Yin
Bodhisattva, and these are hung below the gems as a third layer.
6. Visualize your ears transforming into Buddhist banners with “Om Mani
Padme Hum” (Sanskrit) written on. These banners are hung all around the
shrine. One may also chant the Heart Mantra of the Thousand Arms
Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin which is,
“Namo sam-man-do moo-toh nam wah-ee-la da-mo-she.”
7. Next, winds are generated from the soles of your feet. The soles of your
feet transform into a blue colored Wheel of Wind.
8. Your root chakra transforms into a red Wheel of Fire, right above the
Wheel of Wind.
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9. The third bottom layer is a green Wheel of Water which forms from your
navel chakra.
10. The fourth bottom layer is a yellow Wheel of Earth which is transformed
from your heart chakra.
11. Next transform your spinal column into Mount Meru. Mount Meru is a
pointed mountain which is brown in color.
12. Then, atop the brown, pointed Mount Meru you yourself sit, about the size
of a grain of rice. On top of you, at the uppermost end, is the Thousand
Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin Bodhisattva.
13. Recite the Heart Mantra of the Thousand Arms Thousand Eyes Kuan Yin:
“Namo sam- man-do moo-toh-nam wah-ee-la da-mo-she,”
and enter into deep meditation.
14. Entering Samadhi (Deep Meditation).
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How to Take Refuge in Living Buddha Lian-sheng
There are two ways of taking refuge in Living Buddha Lian-sheng:
1. In writing
At 7:00 a.m. (your local time) of either the first or fifteenth of a lunar month, face the
direction of the rising sun. With palms joined, reverently recite the Fourfold refuge Mantra
three times: “Namo Guru bei, Namo Buddha ye, Namo Dharma ye, Namo Sangha ye” and
prostrate three times.
Send a letter to the True Buddha Foundation to request a refuge empowerment. State
your name, address, age, and enclose a voluntary offering. Upon receiving your letter, the
True Buddha Foundation will send a certificate, a picture of Living Buddha Lian-sheng, and a
note stating the level of practice you should start with. The address of the True Buddha
Foundation is:
True Buddha Foundation
17102 NE 40th Ct.,
Redmond, WA 98052 USA
Tel: 425-885-7573
Fax: 425-883-2173
2. In person
You may obtain refuge empowerment personally from Grand Master Lu or a True
Buddha Master by visiting a True Buddha temple/local chapter or by attending a True Buddha
ceremony.