Bhikkhuni Liao Guo

China

Bhikkhuni Liao Guo

China

Bhikkhuni Liao Guo is the Abbess of Kushan Temple in Yueyang, Hunan Province, China. She has never asked for alms or donations, and yet she has built three Buddhist pagodas with the support of her parents and siblings, who wholeheartedly commit to seeing Buddhism flourish in China.

Bhikkhuni Liao Guo engages in maternal education and fetal education. She also teaches people the Medicine Buddha Sutra. She constructed a meditation hall and every day after the people have completed hard work, they come to engage in Medicine Buddha Yoga practices. They sing Zen songs, create calligraphy of Buddhist adages, have tea ceremonies, study music of the Zither and Guqin, worship, create Buddhist theatrical productions, enjoy vegetarian food without oil or salt, and all the while learn to practice to live a healthy, happy life.

To build 3 Buddhist pagodas, she endured many challenges, sold family land, and went from 80 kg to a mere 46 kg now from hard work. She encourages people to forego viewing Buddhism as superstition and encourages them to contemplate serenely all phenomena, deeds, and contexts in life, even political. She views all conditions as they are, as Dhamma, as merely the boat which carries us across suffering. She teaches to go forward in the spirit of Dharma, selflessness and altruism.