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依法 Yifa (1959-)
Venerable Yifa is a nun belonging to the religious order Fo Guang Shan, which was founded by Venerable Master Hsing Yun in Taiwan and seeks to make Buddhist practice relevant to contemporary life. Yifa lives at Hsi Lai temple in Hacienda Heights, California. Venerable Yifa is also a contributor to Benedict's Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of St. Benedict.
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PDF: Chinese Vinaya Tradition to Chan Regulations
by Yifa
pp. 124-135. In: Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya. Ed. by William M. Bodiford, (Studies in East Asian Buddhism 18), University of Hawaii Press (2005)
PDF: The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan qinggui
by Yifa
Yifa, The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan Qinggui (Honolulu, HI: Univ. of Hawaii, 2002). Rev. Yifa, a scholarly Chán abbess, examines the Chanyuan Qinggui written by Changlu Zongze in 1103, the oldest comprehensive code produced by and for Chán monasteries, and the one which was still influencing the Chán monasteries of the 20 th century Republican era in China and the recently revived Chán monasteries since the 1980s, as well as influencing the Seon/Zen training centers in South Korea and Japan for many centuries. Rev. Yifa shows how such Chán monastic regulations drafted in Song dynastic era were still very much rooted in the old Vinaya rules and the related commentary literature of India and China, and these regulations incorporate commonly shared Buddhist mores and Chinese customs already long worked out over the previous centuries. In other words, in support of a larger point previously made by scholars T. Griffith Foulk and others, and contradicting a long-held idea, there was nothing distinctly “revolutionary” about Chán monastic regulations.
PDF: Authenticity, Clearing the Junk
by Yifa
Lantern, 2007
Sisters of the Buddha: Women's Roles in Buddhism Through the Centuries
by Yifa
Hacienda Heights, CA: Lantern, 2003
Rev. Yifa is a nun since 1979 of the Fo Guang Shan religious order founded by the Ven. Hsing-yun in Taiwan. With a PhD in religious studies from Yale University in 1996, she has been provost at Fo Guang Shan Buddhist College and dean at Hsi Lai University in California and Taiwan. This book is valuable for its insights from a nun's viewpoint within the tradition. See also Rev. Yifa's books The Tender Heart, A Buddhist Response to Suffering (Lantern, 2007) and Authenticity, Clearing the Junk (Lantern, 2007), which bring Yifa and Hsing-yun's “engaged” Chán sensibility to modern readers, advocating the Buddha's right mindfulness, empathetic compassion, simplicity, authenticity and other virtues.
