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When I reached the age of hearing, I realized that there is something very interesting about my life: unexpected gifts are often precious, and the Buddhist Cultural Special Edition is the most recent proof.

The special edition was advised by the Venerable Thich Nhu Dien and edited by the lay Buddhists Phu Van, Nguyen Dao and Nguyen Minh and published by Amazon. According to Nguyen Minh, this is the third special edition that you have made. According to Nguyen Minh, after the third edition, the Editorial Board intends to publish one edition each year.

Indeed, the Buddhist Cultural Special Edition with the theme of Transforming Suffering is very valuable. The book is 670 pages thick with 50 authors including Venerable monks, nuns and Buddhist writers and poets. The format is very elegant because all the images inside are printed in color and each article has a brief biography of the author or translator. According to Mr. Nguyen Minh, because the number of pages was limited so as not to be too thick and the number of articles received was very large, the Editorial Board had to carefully select the articles to publish. This also helps to create more quality content for the Special Edition.

In terms of structure, the Buddhist Cultural Special Edition consists of 4 main parts: Foundation of Practice, Transformation of Suffering, History, Geography, and Characters, and Literary Creation. In addition, interspersed in the sections are pages of poetry by Tuy Anh, Thich Nhu Dien, Song Thu, Tue Nga, and Thai Tu Hap.

According to Venerable Thich Nhu Dien in his Presentation, the first Buddhist Cultural Special Edition was published in 2019 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Vien Giac Newspaper, produced by Vien Giac Pagoda in Germany. After that, perhaps due to the enthusiastic support of readers everywhere, in 2020 the second Buddhist Cultural Special Edition with the theme "Buddhism and Life" continued to appear. Then this year, 2021, the third Buddhist Cultural Special Issue with the theme of Transforming Suffering continues to become an annual Special Issue. This is good news for the field of Vietnamese Buddhist culture and literature overseas.

The content can be said to be very rich and diverse, including articles by venerable monks, nuns and Buddhist writers and poets who are well known in the Buddhist literary world. Among them are His Holiness the Dalai Lama through Vietnamese translation, Thich Thang Hoan, Thich Bao Lac, Thich Nhu Dien, Thich Phuoc An, Thich Nguyen Sieu, Thich Nguyen Tang, Thich Hanh Tue, Thich Pho Huan, Thich Hanh Gioi, Thich Nhu Tu, Thich Nu Gioi Huong, Thich Nu Tinh Van, etc. and Buddhist writers and poets such as Do Hong Ngoc, Van Cong Tuan, Hoang Phong, Nguyen Minh Tien, Thai Cong Tung, Tran Trung Dao, Do Truong, Bach Xuan Phe, etc.

I like the poetry pages the most and they are also the easiest to read. What surprised me the most was the poetry page of Venerable Thich Nhu Dien. In this page, the Venerable translated the Tang poetry of King Tran Nhan Tong. It was the first time I read the Venerable's translated poetry. It was truly interesting to me. For example, the poem Tao Mai Ky Nhat (Morning Plum Blossoms, Poem One) belongs to the Seven-Word Eight-Case genre of Tang poetry. The Venerable Thich Nhu Dien translated the poem in the seven-word eight-line verse form as follows:

Five round yellow pistils exposed
Sinking in the coral shade, fish scales emerging
Three cold winter months, white bird branches
One dry spring day, the branches are warm
The sweet dew smells fragrant, waking butterflies
The night is bright with water, making birds sad
If Hang Nga knew the beauty of the apricot blossoms
The cinnamon shade in the palace would be bored.

The best Vietnamese translation of the above poem is two lines 5 and 6 in Chinese:

“Cam lo lu phuong si diệp tinh,
Da quang nhu thuy quen thap doi.”


The Venerable Thich Nhu Dien translated:

“The sweet dew smells fragrant, waking butterflies wake up
The night shines on the water, making the birds sad”

Poet Tuy Anh, pen name of Phu Van Nguyen Hoa, in the poem “Silent Autumn,” with the first two verses makes readers unforgettable because of the poetic quality that is both romantic and ethereal:

“Oh, autumn has come, I don’t know,
The yellow leaves have flown, soaking the coming season.
The rain still lulls the words of regret,
A time of peace in the great forest.

You said, you came back to visit the old temple,
Chanting a while to calm your mind.
Your love was once stormy,
So it has dissolved with the mundane life.”


Those are just a few poems featured in the 2021 Buddhist Culture Special Edition. The rest of the new Special Edition is countless, in which there are dozens of articles about Buddhism, about Buddhist poetry, about Buddhist history, short stories with Buddhist elements.

For example, the article "The Stages of Practice" by lay Buddhist Nguyen Minh Nguyen Minh Tien introduces in a general way the stages and experiences of practice of a Buddhist from the very beginning to more advanced stages. At the end of the article, Nguyen Minh concluded:

“Recognizing the progress through each stage of the path of practice is a great encouragement and will strengthen our faith in the practical values and benefits of practice. When we understand this, we will be able to perceive the path of practice more specifically. It is not only the great vows that embrace all sentient beings throughout the Dharma realm, but also the attention to cultivating peace in every moment of this present life.”

Or, in the article “Transformation: Transform Corona, Transform Karuna,” layman Nguyen Dao Van Cong Tuan, taking advantage of the corona virus pandemic, explained Buddhist stories related to illness, medicine, and the compassion of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to save sentient beings.

If you want to find a book to read on many topics about Buddhism and Buddhism at the same time, it can be said that this Buddhist Culture Special Edition is one of the books that meets the right requirements. your wish. When you hold this Special Edition in your hand, your first thought may be “a bit bored” because of the thickness of the book, up to 670 pages, but try to think if there is any thin book that can satisfy your request. Because of its thickness, the book can contain such rich content.

Readers who want this Special Edition of Buddhist Culture, please contact Vien Giac Pagoda at the address:

Karisruher Strasse 6
30519 Hannover – Germany
Phone: +49 511 879 630
Email: info@viengiac.de

Or buy directly through Amazon here, which is currently on sale. Instead of 14.99 USD, you only have to pay 9.83 USD.

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