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Sangha and Laity Training Program

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Dharma Master YongHua specializes in teaching joint Chan and Pure Land Buddhism. In particular, he uses the training techniques he acquired from his Chinese Master, the late Patriarch Xuan Hua of the GuiYang Chan lineage and his Vietnamese Master, the late Man Giac of the LinJi lineage.

He wishes to repay his teachers’ kindness by passing on his understanding to the next generation. In 2005 he started propagating Mahayana and has trained many lay people and several monastics. Many of them have attained high samadhi levels through his Nine Samadhi Chan Class.
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Lu Mountain Temple is now launching an international training program. Left-home people and lay people from anywhere in the world are welcome to apply. Our assembly includes members from over ten nationalities, and Master YongHua lectures in both English and Vietnamese, with live Chinese translation.

However, please know that the training program at Lu Mountain Temple is rigorous, and aims to help cultivators end birth and death, and attain enlightenment. Even ending birth and death (attaining the level of an Arhat) is incredibly difficult to do, and reaching enlightenment is far more difficult. Thus we train cultivators to use the Pure Land Dharma Door as backup plan, so that if they fail this lifetime, they can accomplish their goals in the next lifetime by being reborn to the Pure Land.

Prospective trainees are welcome to visit the temple before they apply. They may also wish to consider joining one of our intensive one-month Chan meditation retreats, one starting in mid December, and the other starting at the end of May.

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Trainees are taught to look at their own faults, not the faults of others. Before one can help others, one must develop one’s own wisdom. However, all trainees at Lu Mountain Temple are being prepared to eventually have the skills to help others. This is the ultimate goal of Mahayana practice: to save all living beings. 

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Formal instruction will be given to the entire assembly during the weekend lectures and Dharma talks. Dharma Master YongHua lectures for a total of 4 hours every weekend. In addition, Master YongHua will give trainees individual instruction as is appropriate.

Both monastic and Lay trainees are expected to follow the daily schedule and participate in work at the temple. However, trainees must be able to accord with conditions: some days there is more work to be done, and there will be less time to cultivate.

   
Daily Practice Schedule
​4:00 – 6:00 AM
Morning Ceremony
​6:00 – 8:00 AM
Personal Cultivation
6:00 – 6:30 AM
Breakfast (Laity, optional for monastics)
8:00 – 10:40 AM
Work
10:40 – 12:00 PM
Lunch Offering & Lunch
12:45 - 02:45 PM
Great Compassion Repentance
​3:00 – 5:00 PM
Work
​5:30 - 6:00 PM​​
​​Internal Practice​
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Evening Ceremony

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