HONGAKU INSTITUTE FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES

Namo tassa bhagavato arahato samma-sambuddhassa

HIBS is the educational arm of Hongaku Jodo Compassionate Lotus Tradition

The educational aim of Hongaku Jodo Compassionate Lotus is to share Dharma.

We offer anyone seriously wanting to become a practitioner of Dharma the opportunity to do so. I will work with you as closely as I can. I can also put you in contact with other HJCL qualified teachers who can help you further your own Dharma training. Make contact with me if you wish to do so.

While I grow older every day, the opportunity for interaction decreases in this lifetime. It is important that you not waste time because you also are moving forward with your life's cycle. If you are simply wanting something to do to fill an idle internet day, an ego whim, this is not the place to fulfill it. While this Saha world may be seen as being Empty and Void, it is also exactly what it is according to the correct understanding of our interactions with it as experienced through our body senses. Open your eyes. Knuckle down and become one in fact with the Buddhas. Reconnect to your "Hongaku" nature: the nature of primordial awareness. That is our reason for Being.

Please visit the next page where you can explore our basic organizational clergy requirements.

Peace,

Taicho (Founding Abbot Emeritus)

and

In Peace and With Metta,

Venerable Mui, PhD, DBS
(Ven. Dr. Shaku Mui Shin Shi),

Spiritual Director and Presiding Abbot

Hongaku Institute for Buddhist Studies is the official SEMINARY for training clergy for Hongaku Jodo, Compassionate Lotus Tradition.

The primary purpose of this Seminary is to:
1. Provide a forum within which students can be prepared for ordination
2. provide organizational support in the maintenance of academic records
3. To issue certificates of completion to students at the conclusion of current academic projects
4. To provide support and a forum thru which Buddhist Instructors can present teachings and provide students with documentation for such instruction
5. To provide similar support and service for instruction in complementary fields of study by qualified instructors
6. To award degrees when appropriate.
7. To provide others the professional opportunities for achieving their spiritual & academic desires within a Buddhist framework generally.

HIBS

Please note that were organized in New Mexico and retain our headquarters there. Our administrative offices, however are in the Greater Chicago area.

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Luminous, monks, is the mind. And it is freed from incoming defilements. The well-instructed disciple of the noble ones discerns that it actually is present, which why I tell you that - for the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones - there is development of the mind.

the Buddha, Anguttara Sutta 1.49-52

Hongaku Jodo
Compassionate Lotus T'ien T'ai Tradition,

Hongaku Chicago

and the

HONGAKU INSTITUTE FOR BUDDHIST STUDIES
1501 Oak Ave #506
Evanston, IL 60201 USA