Video: Change Your Words, Change Your World

Once again, following the spirit of selflessly propagating the Buddha Dharma for the benefit of all sentient beings, the Unified Vietnamese Buddhist Congregation of Australia and New Zealand (UVBCANZ) had kept its word to hold a 4th Annual Buddhist Retreat as the past 3 years have proven to be a success. This year, the location of the much long awaited retreat was agreed to be held at Quang Duc Monastery, Victoria Melbourne.

Yae-Hong Hsu, better known by his Buddhist name Chin Kung Shi, was born in February of 1927 in Lujiang County, Anhui Province of China. He attended the National Third Guizhou Junior High School and Nanjing First Municipal High School. In 1949, he went to Taiwan and worked in the Shijian Institution.

He said peace will come through action and genuine constructive action depends on will power. Will power, in turn, depends on self-confidence...

On arrival at the school, His Holiness first visited the multiple handicapped children home. He met blind children with multiple handicapped and their helpers.

It is a fundamental fact of human existence, His Holiness said, that the development of a healthy body and sound mind derives originally from the loving care that one receives from one's mother.

His Holiness began with an introduction on the importance of religious harmony based on study and sympathetic understanding between the different traditions.

His Holiness told that the purpose of his visit was to carry on with his two lifelong commitments of promoting human values, warm heartedness and religious harmony...

Addressing the problem of corruption that plagues India and China, the Dalai Lama said that the absence of moral values was the reason behind the rampant rise in corruption.