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All Buddhist monastics in East Asian Buddhism adopt this name as their surname, implying that their first family is the Buddhist community. In many Buddhist traditions, a person can receive a progression of names. The lineage name is given first when a person takes refuge in the Three Jewels. Nhất Hạnh's lineage name is Trừng Quang ...
Birth of Chân Không (born Cao Ngoc Phuong in Bến Tre, Vietnam) 1942. Thầy Thich Nhat Hanh entered Từ Hiếu Temple as a śrāmaṇera; 194_ Thầy Thich Nhat Hanh graduates from Báo Quốc Pagoda Buddhist Academy; 1949. Thầy Thich Nhat Hanh is ordained a Buddhist monk; 1950. Thầy Thich Nhat Hanh co-founded An Quang Temple in Saigon ...
Exiled from Vietnam, Nhất Hạnh was in France as a representative of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBC) and was the leader of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation. [4] In the 1980s Nhất Hạnh and Chân Không established Plum Village as a practice center in Dordogne region of France and opened up the Order of Interbeing to ...
A Dharma name is a new name acquired during both lay and monastic Buddhist initiation rituals in Mahayana Buddhism [1] and monastic ordination in Theravada Buddhism (where it is more proper to call it Dhamma or Sangha name). The name is traditionally given by a Buddhist monastic, and is given to newly ordained monks, nuns [2] and laity. [3]
In East Asian Buddhism, monks and nuns usually adopt a Buddhist surname and a Dharma name, which are combined in the surname-first East-Asian naming order.Since the 4th century the standard Buddhist surname has been Shi (Chinese: 釋, Korean: Seok, Vietnamese: Thích, [1] Japanese: Shaku), which is the first syllable of Shijiamouni, the Chinese word for Shakyamuni. [2]
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Ram Bahadur Bomjon (other names Buddha Boy, Maha Sambodhi, Dharma Sangha, Maitriya Guru, Palden Dorje, Tapasvi) - a 34 year old Nepalese ascetic whom many have hailed as a new Buddha. Naming himself publicly from 2012 as "Maitriya" Guru, he and his followers openly claim that he is the awaited Maitreya Buddha.