Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

preliminary questions. A tap at the door announced
a voluble Chinese lady. After a brief talk with our
host he handed her the Thai stamps given by the
writer, for she was, it appeared, the mother of the
young collector. Before she could depart, Mr. Chen
insisted with much laughter and many a bow that
she also takes some Tibetan bread from his shrine.
This she refused, and only after a pantomime, in
which Mr. Chen ran out of the room, would she
accept.
Following this episode, talk turned to the recent
visit with Mr. Chen of two Buddhists, one a bhiksu
and the other a bhiksuni (nun). Mr. Chen had seen
the nun lean back in her seat and look into his
shrine room. He therefore invited her to see it, upon
which the bhiksu also got up and accompanied
them.
"She," said Mr. Chen referring to the Ani-la
(Tibetan for nun,) "has learned some Chod, (the
offering of the body to all beings: a good practice to
get merits) so she understood something of my
shrine. However, the bhiksu was Hinayana, and did
not understand much."
The writer added that the bhiksu was puzzled by the
fierce Buddha-forms and also did not understand
their meaning when he called them the "double
figures"(of Buddhas or Bodhisattvas with their
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