History of Dharma Constitution

LORD SUPREME MAITREYA BUDDHA, 

incarnating Himself as Reverend Long-Hoa Sangha Chief Tịnh Vương Nhất Tôn (1918–1993),[1] 

has proclaimed the history of how the Dharma Constitution came into the world, which is presented in this YouTube video in Vietnamese.

The following is its translation. 

(click here for its pdf file in booklet form)




At the CENTRAL SUPERIOR-ASSOCIATION,

Number 6, Huỳnh Thúc Kháng Street, Nha-Trang, Vietnam.

On the 12th Day of the 1st Month of the Lunar Year of the Goat (1991),

Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha has proclaimed:

At the CENTRAL SUPERIOR-ASSOCIATION,

Number 6, Huỳnh Thúc Kháng Street, Nha-Trang, Vietnam (1991).

Today is the 12th Day of January of the Lunar Year of the Goat (1991). This year, I am 74 years old. I want to hand down the history process of how the Dharma Constitution came into the world.

Speaking of how Buddhism came into the world, there were many stories and biographies that need to be recorded for future reference. In the next generations, Tao practitioners and those who believe in Buddhism will want to learn about Buddhism, favoring Buddhism. Depending on what we choose, practicing through the path that is suitable for us, we will succeed in our Dharma practice.

Speaking of how the Dharma Constitution comes into the world, a Tao practitioner of the Buddha path always prepares the structures, arrangements, and plans for all. In fact, I prepared in the beginning period from 1967 to 1970, 1971, also having a large number of Dharma Constitution faithful followers; their knowledge was quite good. They petitioned to request a decree to legalize the birth of the Dharma Constitution, aiming at popularizing it far and wide. The Dharma Constitution is intended, at its first basic purpose, to guide everyone practicing the Dharma with the result of knowing and seeing at present and liberation at present through knowing, seeing, and solving. That is the salvation of suffering in the secular world, which has been entangled without knowing how to escape from it, and now the Dharma Constitution is providing material to solve this; the one who is ahead guides the posterior one to the path of practicing for the Bodhi Miraculous Fruit, which has been passed down by the World’s Most Venerable[2] for more than 2,000 years.

[1] Tịnh Vương means Pure King; one meaning of Nhất Tôn is One Essence. Therefore, the name Tịnh Vương Nhất Tôn could understand as  The One Essence Pure King.

      Long-Hoa means Dragon-Flower.

[2] The World’s Most Venerable is another title of The Founding Master Shakyamuni Buddha.