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Selected Translations of Miao Yun
Teachings in
Chinese Buddhism
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EDITOR’S NOTE
Venerable Yin Shun’s expertise and writings in Buddhism
have been widely acknowledged by the Chinese Buddhists this
century. The “Miao Yun Collection” written by the Venerable
provides us with important information and a systematic
approach to Buddhism, giving us a better insight and
understanding of Buddhism. We would like to take this
opportunity to thank the Triple Gem, and hope that more
people may benefit from the Venerable’s writing.
In Australia, there are very few English books on
Mahayana Buddhism. In order to introduce the Buddha’s
teachings to Westerners, members from the University of New
South Wales Buddhist Society, the Sydney University
Buddhist Society and the Hwa Tsang Monastery Inc. thought
about translating the Mahayana sutras and texts, and chose
Venerable Yin Shun’s work as the choice of translation. The
collection of this translation will be called “Selected
Translations of Miao Yun Part I”.
We have selected and translated eight articles from five
books in the Third volume of the Miao Yun Collection;
namely “The Dharma is the Saver of the World”, “The Three
Essentials in Practising the Teaching of the Buddha”, “The
Buddha lives in the world”, “To investigate the Dharma
according to the Teachings of the Buddha” and “My view on
Religions”. Some of these articles were translated before and
were collected in the book “A Translation of Works by
Venerable Yin Shun”, published by the Mahaprajna Buddhist
Society, Singapore.
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We apologise for not being able to contact and consult the
original translators but we have obtained the approval from
the original publisher, Venerable Hao Zhong, and edited these
articles in accordance with the interests of Western readers. To
aid readers, we have chosen to translate according to the
meaning instead of direct translation in some circumstances.
This is our fir