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The Gradual and Sudden Tracks, with Vince F Horn

Buddhist Geeks

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Hen Nang - A Poem Competition

Fue nang is an illiterate monk at a prestigious monastery in China. When the lead teacher dies, he creates a poem competition to see who will succeed him. A senior student of his that everyone expects to be the winner wins and gets lineage transmission. But then fue nang hears some one reciting it from someone else on the monastery's staff. And like, all, isn't amazing? That poem dand so i think, i think of fue nang here now is as like a he's like the the ancient chinese equivalent of good will hunting. It's lik similar to weenang is like pounding rice at this prestigious monastery.

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