Synopses & Reviews
The Fragrance of the Lotus is a collection of daily teachings originally circulated among the members of the Lotus Sangha of World Social Buddhism--a community of several thousand practitioners living and working primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia--of which Great Dharma Master Ji Kwang is the Chung Chong, or Supreme Matriarch. These daily teachings were intended to serve her immediate students as personal reminders of the meaning of unhindered clarity and compassion. Gathered into chapters with such titles as Social Buddhism, Relationships, Surmounting Suffering, World Peace, Success, Work, and Diligence, Human Mind and Thinking, and Beauty, Great Dharma Master Ji Kwang's teachings brilliantly integrate private, inner concerns with social issues and guidance for living as a Buddhist in the world. The brief messages are perfect for dipping into whenever one feels the need for illumination in the midst of our hectic lives in the often confusing and challenging 21st century.
Synopsis
Contained here are selected daily teachings that were originally circulated among the members of the Lotus Sangha of World Social Buddhism--a community of several thousand practitioners living and working primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia --and of which Great Dharma Master Ji Kwang is the "Chung Chong," or Supreme Matriarch. These daily teachings were explicitly intended to serve her immediate students as personal reminders of the meaning of unhindered clarity and compassion. As such, each individual teaching demonstrates the horizonless virtuosity of Buddhist awakening as manifested in skillfully reflecting and responding to contemporary experiences, concerns, and events--a clear passage to the bodhimandala, or "place of enlightenment." As a whole, the teachings collected here provide succinct and compelling evidence that all places may, indeed, be the place of enlightenment.