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The 20 year journey of True Buddha Purple Lotus Temple
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Greetings from Grand Master Lu on Purple Lotus 20 year anniversary
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Purple Lotus Temple, a local chapter of the True Buddha School
in the United States, is located in the San Francisco Bay Area in
California.
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Purple Lotus Temple
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In 2007, Purple Lotus Temple (PLT) celebrates its 20th anniversary.
Under the leadership of Vajra Acharya Samantha Chou,
PLT has sailed through all kinds of trials and challenges.
Step by step, it has forged ahead to grow into
the strong spiritual organization as it is today.
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Founded in May 2nd, 1987,
PLT is located in the city of San Bruno, California.
Under the umbrella of PTL are:
Purple Lotus Publishing
Lotus Light Charity Subsidiary
Mandala Arts
Purple Lotus School
Purple Lotus Buddhist Institute
and
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the Future Purple Lotus Temple Project.
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Our ultimate goal is to carry out the instruction of our Guru
to eventually build
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the Wa Kwang Purple Lotus University.
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PLT’s mission is to disseminate
the True Buddha Tantric Dharma throughout the world.
We believe the increase of one’s knowledge in Buddhism through the TBTD
will lead to a decrease of anger, confusion, suffering
and ultimately result in happiness, peace, and awakening.
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Vajra Acharya Samantha Chou
is the founder and resident master of Purple Lotus Temple of True Buddha School.
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Master Samantha’s father was a famous doctor in Taiwan
who often provided free services to the sick and impoverished.
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Among the six siblings, Master is the only girl.
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When Master Samantha was nine years old,
her father suddenly got sick and passed away.
Bereft of her father’s love,
Master started asking many questions.
Why does a good person die so young?
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Where has father gone to after he died?
Thus started Master Samantha’s quest into the Mystery of Life.
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In July 1984, in looking for answers to the puzzles in her mind,
Master Samantha visited a Taoist medium in Taiwan.
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In that encounter, Master’s psychic body awakened.
Her soul traveled to the realms of heaven, netherworld,
and she saw Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and the Dragon Kings.
She also saw her father whom she missed deeply.
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Ever since the awakening of her psychic abilities,
Master is able to see things others cannot.
She starts to look at the world differently
and gains a new understanding into human existence.
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But, from that time on, her menses also abruptly stopped.
“After my visits with the Taoist master,
I stopped menstruating.
The doctors were not able to figure out why.”
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One night in November 1985,
Master Samantha had a vision of the Great Sun Buddha.
The Great Sun Buddha told her,
“You are pregnant with a girl.”
Further medical examination confirmed it,
Although Master has not had a period for 18 months
add doctors had announced that she was infertile.
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Even more surprisingly,
when Master was three months pregnant,
the baby in her womb started chanting the name of Amitabha
and could converse directly with her.
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Confounded by her experiences,
Master sought help from medical doctors and religious figures.
But, they were not able to help her.
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They even ridiculed her and entertained the idea
that she might be mentally disturbed.
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Finally, through the recommendation of a friend,
on March 29th 1986, Master flew to Seattle
to meet with Living Buddha Lian-sheng Sheng-yen Lu,
the founder of True Buddha School.
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The night before their meeting,
Master dreamt of Grand Master Lu.
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When Grand Master saw Master Samantha,
the first thing he said was,
“Your mission entrusted by Shakyamuni Buddha to help sentient beings now begins.”
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Grand Master also told Master of her great affinity with him.
She is the incarnation of Maha Purple Padmakumara.
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Master Samantha finally found the answers to her questions.
She took refuge in Living Buddha Lian-sheng
and started the cultivation of the True Buddha Tantric Dharma.
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On July 22nd 1987, Grand Master bestowed the title of
True Buddha Vajra Acharya to Master Samantha.
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In Grand Master’s 87th book,
The Mysterious Riots of Colors,
Grand Master wrote that,
“Master Samantha is the emanation of Purple Padmakumara,
one of the 18 Padmakumaras in the Maha Twin Lotus Ponds in
Sukhavati, the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
Her mission in this life is to assist the White Padmakumara
in disseminating the Dharma and helping sentient beings.”
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In her seventh month of pregnancy,
Master indeed gave birth to a baby girl.
Grand Master named her Miaohua (Megia).
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In his 71st book, The Defeat of Black Magic,
Grand Master explained the mission entrusted by Shakyamuni Buddha
to Master Samantha and the identity of Megia.
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In the following two years,
under the same condition of amenorrhea,
Master gave birth to two more children.
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The second daughter was born in 1988.
Grand Master named her Miaoxing (Junia).
After the birth of Junia,
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Master received a message from Amitabha
that she would have another son,
but she would also have to pass on from the world.
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In 1989, while giving birth to her son Engih,
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Master Samantha had a ruptured artery and
lost a great amount of blood.
She was on the verge of death.
Although the doctors tried to save her,
they were at the end of their rope.
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At this urgent moment,
Grand Master entered into meditation
to save Master Samantha.
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Grand Master said that “Just then the phone rang, it was 11 p.m., and
it was from dharma brother Chou from San Francisco.
All he could say was that Master Samantha was in grave danger.
Then he started sobbing. I told him that I was aware of it.
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Then he hung up. I went immediately to the shrine,
lit an incense, and prayed to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
I was praying very sincerely with my whole being.
Because my mind was focused on Master Samantha,
I was able to spot her right away.
Her soul has come out to roam around.
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She ran into a room to see an official
to start her process of emigration.
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I say, ‘Where are you going?’
She said she was getting a visa.
To where?
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She said, ‘To Heaven.’
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I told her there is no road to Heaven.
‘How about Hell?’ she asked.
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There is also no road to Hell.
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I told her to go back to the world.
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She protested, ‘Why? There is so much suffering in the world!’
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I told her, ‘You have to endure the greatest suffering
before you can obtain the greatest birth.
Only by experiencing the great death will you be able to really live.
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I am not trying to block your escape,
it is just that your mission has not been accomplished.
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Therefore, she had no choice but to return to the hospital.
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She had a second chance at life.
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