Objectives of the College's Nine-Year Training Program

1. Students are to reach moral and scholastic excellence.
2. Students are to put their learning and understanding into daily practise.
3. Their ethics will be flawless.
4. Students are to be good teachers and exemplars for all.

PRACTISE OF THE FOUR KINDNESSES

1. Harbour a Kind Heart - Sincerity, Purity, Equality, Proper Understanding, and Compassion.

2. Speak with Kind Words - No Lying, No bearing tales, No Usage of Abusive Language, and No Usage of Seductive Word.

3. Do Kind Deeds - Practice the Four Means of Integration of giving unconditionally, using kind words, beneficial action, comradeship and cooperation (do not be a traitor, do not evade taxes, and do not violate the law).

4. Be a Kind Person - See through to the truth of impermanence, let go of all wandering thoughts and attachments, attain freedom of mind and spirit, accord with proper conditions and be mindful of Buddha Amitabha as to follow his teachings.

COURSES OF STUDY
1. Standards for Students, Liao-Fan's Four Lessons, Sutra on Ananda's Query Concerning the Ultimate Results of Living the Buddha's Teachings as Auspicious or Disastrous, Treatise of Response and Retribution, Sutra of the Path of Ten Virtuous Conducts, Pure Land Practitioner's Handbook.

2. Infinite Life Sutra, Amitabha Sutra, Contemplation Sutra, Chapter on Universal Worthy Bodhisattva's Conduct and Vows, Chapter on the Perfect and Complete Realization of Great Strength Bodhisattva, and Vasubandhu Bodhisattva's Report on Rebirth Treatise.



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