1. The Social Turmoil of the World after WW II

Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 1945.

A quick glance at the economic, social, and political events of all the countries in the world after the First and Second World Wars shows an accumulative, serious situation that made learned men, scientists, and sociologists anxious and fearful.

Many of them became pessimistic and believed that a Third World War would soon break out. Their research caused them to announce that doomsday was drawing near. Not only were the atrocities of war and weapons that could kill thousands instantly examined, but natural disasters such as ravaging storms, typhoons, earthquakes, drought, and floods were looked at as things that would kill countless human beings!

Environmental pollution exists in soil as well as ponds, lakes, rivers and seas. Toxic gasses continue to damage the atmosphere day by day. Meanwhile, leaders of the technically advanced countries have not yet properly perceived the dangers and are not really trying to put an end to it.

The above mentioned problems were the cause of many deadly diseases that spread through the world. Even more atrocious than the First and Second World Wars and causing even more death, destruction, and misery for millions of innocent people, countless wars, skirmishes, revolutions, genocides and the like are continuously taking place throughout the world. The true cost of these actions in misery and loss is immeasurable.

A man of virtue and knowledge is constantly obsessed with the survival of mankind. He wonders how mankind has continued to live in such unstable unbearable conditions, which seem to go beyond normal human endurance. Where is his final destination? Is this the presage of the Final Law Period? 

Is it the beginning of the end, or the Savior’s reincarnation? Nobody could answer the questions easing mankind’s anxiety. Especially in Vietnam, the Book of Oracles had promptly been spread throughout the country: Let’s hurry up and practice or we’ll be too late! Time is running out and the Lord Maitreya is incarnated. Let’s keep the faith and patiently wait. Nobody could precisely tell the time when He would come into being. At the same time, a lot of people just laughed, because they thought of it as a superstition and an illusion. They appealed to everybody to live out of his own labor.

2. The Social Turmoil of Vietnam

A picure of the Vietnam War

“Under one thousand years of Chinese domination, one hundred years of French domination, and fifty years of civil war”, anyone hearing it could understand that from their great ancestors, the Vietnamese had undergone so much sorrow and mourning, and the misery lasted from generation to generation. They have witnessed barbarous killings, wretchedness, poverty, death from starvation, and imprisonment. They were heartbroken when their families were separated... Their ancestors’ endurance is of the first rank in the world, worthy of respect and admiration.

In such a severe and chaotic social situation, the learned men could clearly realize more and more that mankind had been depressed spiritually. All of these daily degenerations made them believe that Lord Maitreya was about to appear. The last shift would give rise to a natural change indeed.

Sakyamuni had preached His words over 2500 years ago with thousands of truths. Monks, nuns, Buddhist followers, sociologists, learned men, and scientists: Would you please form a delegation to visit South Vietnam. Upon examining it after reading this, you will see that the night suddenly becomes the day in this miraculous and marvelous world in which we live.

It is very practical and neither illusionary nor vague. You will find out a new source of life and plentiful joy and happiness for the present and future. If there is no path of reincarnation, why can many disciples remember who they were in their former life? They also clearly noted what they did and where they lived. Nobles and masters who remembered their past lives have documented them and scientists today have heard and seen many documents with demonstrations. Scientists check many external things, but the Eastern masters examine and discover their bodies to know the universe...

3. Who was the Supreme Pure King? (Maitreya Buddha) What did He do for Mankind?

Disciples and secular people should know that the intelligence and virtue of Buddha goes beyond the ordinary. They had brought the source of life and happiness to the Four Species, but the latter did not know it.

The Enlightened One, Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha, only made use of psychic power as a necessary means and did not want to disclose the miracles of the universe to the boastful secular people. When His work was finished, He left silently, undisturbed by the discussion about right and wrong by the living creatures. He need not to stay back to enjoy what He has done for the world, as long as He could completely help them to be safe and peaceful. In the Ullambana season of 1969, a.k.a. the 2513^th year of the Buddhist calendar, thanks to a great opportunity, I became a disciple of the Supreme Pure King. One day, He called me and said:

“Phap Kha (the Dharma name of the author), you are the true Buddhist disciple, having firm faculty and one-pointed mind to practice for a complete liberation.  Now, before the witness of the Three Dharma Elements, I am proclaiming the following litanies so that you and all the future living creatures will know I had incarnated in this life. You will know I had appeared in this saha world and had done many useful things to save all the living creatures in this Dharma-Ending Age.”

After announcing these verses, the Supreme Pure King kept silent. Suddenly, the atmosphere around Him vaguely smelled of sandalwood incense, and became extraordinarily solemn and warm. Connecting an initial word in these verses, we have this sentence: “Tu Thi Di Lac Ton Phat – The Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha”

Lord Supreme Maitrey a Portrait of joyfulness. At home, He usually wore a white traditional Ba-Ba.

I prostrated myself before Him, wondering in confusion whether or not Lord Maitreya, in flesh and bone, is truly in front of me? All Buddhist or non-Buddhist followers, whatever their religion, have to examine this. Lord Maitreya has appeared at the due time, in the right situation, and in this Dharma-Ending Age. He had joyfully utilized His great power to endure difficulties and made full use of His Buddha power to transform the chaotic Final Law Period into the antiquity.

In this rebirth, Lord Maitreya adopted the name of the Unique Principle Pure King and preached the dharma at number 42, Hong Bang Street, Nha Trang. In the last years of His life, He moved to number 6, Huynh Thuc Khang Street of the same city. The moment has come to document this rare historical event, hoping that all human beings and true disciples realize that life is an infinite ocean of suffering and is fleeting. Hoping they would courageously make up their mind to seek enlightenment and liberation from the endless cycle of birth and death. No matter how rich you are, when you pass away, you will leave all behind, and become empty-handed. Not knowing where we are going is an immeasurable suffering!

4. Binh Dinh, the Place Where Lord Maitreya Was Born

One day at the end of winter in 1969 in the wooden loft of number 42, Hong Bang Street Nha Trang, at 8 o'clock in the morning, the Pure King said:

From the Tusita Heaven, wearing a long, large, sky-blue ceremonial robe, and solemnly accompanied by the gods, dragon deity, dharma protector, dharma protector bodhisattva, and bodhisattvas, the Pure King came down to this saha world. Seeing the red dust densely covering everywhere, all of the gods, dragon deity, and dharma protector stopped and respectfully bowed to Him and dared not follow Him.

Painting of the traditional leaf-house in Binh Dinh where He was born.

His father, Tu Nhu Y

His mother, Nguyen Thi Phung.

He alone went straight to the province of Binh Dinh in Central Vietnam. He stood before the house waiting for a mother called Nguyen Thi Phung, who was about to deliver. As soon as she gave birth to a son, He lightly leaned and slipped into the house, entering into the baby's body. It was about 9 o'clock A.M. on the 24^th day of the 12^th month of the Lunar year, 1918, (the 2462^th year of the Buddhist calendar). At that time, the weather was changing to spring. His father's name was Tu Nhu Y, and he called Him Tu The Tho. Every year, on the 24^th day of the 12^th month of the Lunar year, all the Phap Tang Buddhism of Vietnam people who were His true disciples gathered at His residence to celebrate His birthday. On the same day of the Tan Hoi lunar year, a.k.a. the 8th of December 1972, He once again told the secular world and His true disciples that Lord Maitreya was born. This poem was written down and also typed by Him:

“Giving away their worries and fears.”

He was born at the end of the First World War (1914-1918). Man and especially the underdeveloped countries under fear of invasion after the Second World War (1939-1945) signed the treaty of Geneva in 1954. He was born at a pivotal time, announcing an increasing disturbance.

“Praying for Miracles all over the country.”

While the people went about shopping for the Vietnamese New Year, the entire group of invisible dragon deities, land deities, and four kinds of deities, and supreme deities around His dwelling place were accomplishing miracles all over to protect Him.

“Real or unreal depends on the peacefulness of their mind.”

At a close look, the peacefulness enabled the citizens to joyfully shop for the Vietnamese New Year (Tet). But at a closer look, the Third World War was in latency, and the peace was both real and unreal.

“It was on the all - round illumination of the twenty- fourth day.”

The Ultimate illumination of the twenty- fourth day is a seldom occurring special day. Why? That day, according to the Chinese calendar, was the beginning of spring, that is to say the end of the winter. The weather was changing to a bright spring.

“I was alone in the cloud of the sky
Being reborn in this Final Law Period.”

From the Tusita Heaven, He penetrated into the atmosphere and the layers of clouds and stepped into the secular world where He was “reborn.” For a long time, the Buddha scripture had been used to talk about this upon Lord Maitreya’s return, He wrote it down in order to remind the secular world that it is now the Final Law Period, which is favorable for Him to save the world.

“It is no use saying any longer
Today is naturally a leisure day.”

He knew how true His words were. He spoke the truth in superfluous words because the living creatures were confused and could not believe them. As for Him, He remained calm as He had vowed.

“So much the worse for the Final Law Period.
As arranged by Tathagata to play a scene.”

 In the Final Law Period, regardless of the destruction mankind has created with its toxicity, He has already known that it was a play arranged by Tathagata to go back to the beginning.

“The true disciples are just my consolation
...Provided everybody was joyful of enlightenment
Under the temple roof,
that is what I am longing for.”

So much worse for the secular world with its toxicity, it remained for Him a joy that the true disciples wishing for enlightenment, are following Him. Long Hoa expected by most disciples is in Vietnamese: “Phap Tang” And Lord Maitreya in the past is now hidden under the title of The Supreme Pure King.

The leader of Phap Tang was the Master of all dharma. He was proclaimed the Supreme Chief Monk.

When He was born, He had a nice body with good features, but His parents were very poor. Their house was made of bamboo walls banked up with hay and clay, and a thatch roof in the countryside. Seeing that the invisible dragon deity dharma protector pretended to appear as a terrifying devil, His mother was frightened and brought her baby to a cleaner, larger house of a relative. As he was only three days old at the time, His eyes were hurt by the sunshine, and His right eye was severely damaged.

This was an omen of Tathagata, meaning that the Buddha was born, but the living creatures (common men) could not see Him. It is only by the patriarchs’ merits, with a partly free spirit and the will to practice toward enlightenment that we could attain the great condition to come to Him.

He continued: It was not difficult for me to make use of my psychic power and appear as the whole 32 Buddhist good forms. But in this Dharma-Ending Age, the living creatures cared too much for the form and the sound. If I were to appear that way, they would only come to worship Me, and not to correct their bad habits, which would be useless.

5. Nha Trang, city of Khanh Hoa province, Where Lord Maitreya taught his disciples

I heard: During the Second World War (1939-1945), the Vietnamese situation was very bad, and war exploded everywhere. When He lived in Binh Dinh, the Vietnam communist authority was faithless and condemned Him to 10 years of imprisonment, but after only 26 months the Geneva Convention was concluded. He was 36 years old when he was set free and moved to Nha Trang where He rented a small house with a thatched roof and clay walls at Sinh Trung, near the Cho Dam market today.

The year 1956 was the 2500^th year of the Buddhist era and He has attained the supreme true enlightenment.  He had since made use of His abilities from His countless past lives to help the living creatures accumulate merit through many past lives. In this life, He appears as a Buddha's body in order to construct the nation and to build the high life in this physical world. From now on, the world will change gradually every cycle of twelve years to become peaceful, and mankind will regain his serenity, leisure, and morality.

The remaining Buddhist sutra inscribed by Him is still intact. To demonstrate His apparition, I'll give certain main points so you can realize it more completely, through the Sealed Indication 1-2-3-4.

Though nobody understands Him in this period, He is silently saving the secular world through the sealed indication 1, also typed by Him:

The Salvation Period:

Period of classifying Himself as a human being, appearing as a layman to guide the disciples to the True supreme dharma and full enlightenment.

• The verse:

The Western paradise means the Tusita full of peace and joy in the golden light of the dharma.

The Eastern Lord Supreme Maitreya is now opening the dharma teaching: He was reborn in the East. Reborn in the East means living as a layman. The reborn: The Lord Supreme Maitreya is opening the dharma teaching.

He used all excellent means to show that the life and the dharma are always in parallel, always appearing as the form and the shadow. Though being two, they have a unique form. He had flexibly brought human beings to a unique way of practice, which is the enlightenment.

When He started teaching dharma, the Four Species increased their intensity for competition and killed each other in chaos and continuously lived in a nightmare.

• The Interpretation:

I'm coming to the West and returning to the East... The Supreme Pure King incarnated today is precisely the reincarnation of Lord Supreme Maitreya. He now appears as a layman, pulling up the curtain of ignorance for the erroneous practice of dharma in the Dharma-Ending Age. He makes it in concord for human beings to use hearing, seeing, and knowing in life to practice the dharma, transforming the hearing, seeing, and knowing into the non-attached all dharma. Realizing it, man will be able to live peacefully and happily, the family will be stable, and the nation will be safe and joyful.

• The Explanation:

He would go to the places where there were true disciples such as Nha Trang, Qui Nhon, Da Nang, Hue, and Saigon. There were also some disciples leaving home to see Him, or read His scriptures on the salvation. They only knew that He was the Pure King Monk - During His journey none of these disciples tried to discover the dharma subject of salvation. They were not interested in it and even considered this way of practice as unnecessary and completely strange.

In parallel with the teaching of the dharma to the surrounding living creatures, He also had a difficult great vow that was His determination to use the Buddhas' precious dharma to rebuild the secular world, transporting them from the East to the West. This way, they would have a practical way of correcting their nature, giving up their bad habits, surmounting the circumstances to get a cleared mind, and getting rid of suffering in each and every family. This work of transforming the whole world in this time was not understood by any of the religious leaders.

• The Conversion:

“The Heavenly Fairies were applauding happily.”

Why? In the fairyland, heavenly fairies were observing His returning to the world. Heavenly fairies were those who lived outside our earth and were very sensible. Sympathetic from the past to the future, they understood the movement and maneuver of all dharma very well, as well as the apparition and the return. They had the attainment of ‘ultimate awareness’ and were only inferior to the bodhisattvas. They did not yet know how the change in their own destiny would affect birth, death, old age and suffering.

The heavenly fairies saw the universe and people living in peace and safety. At the Final Law Period, when hell came into existence and the suffering karma was widespread, they saw a great power saving the Four Species, which is why they applauded happily.

“The land fairies knitting their eyebrows lamenting.”

The Land Fairies were always drawn to the ‘middle life’ also called gentle life. In this period, they practice treasure and respect morality and saint-like behavior. Seeing the development of the fire goal, the great powerful Lord Supreme Maitreya had to return to the world to save it. The saints, sages and bodhisattvas practiced in the all-sided one that was penetrating the ‘fire goal’, undergoing bitterness, disgrace, and corporal punishment in order to save living creatures. The land fairies, who did not understand this, lamented and wept when they saw how much the saints, sages, and bodhisattvas suffered. In turn, they believed that the teaching of Buddha degenerated.

“Human beings were astonished in their attitude.”

Why? Human beings live in an unstable, difficult, and meaningless life. From the full to the empty, the tranquil to the chaotic, the united to the separate, the cool to the hot, and the cozy to the wandering, average human beings as well as believers are all in confusion. They become disoriented and lose their faith in Buddha and run after the Fire goal toward a new horizon. Everyone was horrified, anxious, bewildered, and adventurous.

“The bodhisattvas were laughing joyfully.”

The saints, sages, and bodhisattvas, who vow to practice the “All-sided One” face difficult situations, but remain calm and joyful. Saved from suffering was the usual food of the bodhisattvas. Therefore, they were happy to follow Buddha's path.

“The three realms were shaking ceaselessly."

The three realms are desire, form, and formless. Seeing the secular world undergoing the fire goal and chaos, the heavenly fairies became also worried, anxious, and their bodies shook dolorously, too.

“I'm sitting in the evenly beautiful Buddha's throne.”

 He knew that all are only the illusive scenes of the secular world, and by this engaging rebirth He will attain Buddha hood.

• The sealed Indication:

“Human beings were faithfully wishing for the dharma.”

He knew that numerous Human beings now practice Buddhism. However, most of them rely on monks and nuns in temples and mountain sanctuaries in search of a faithful mind for salvation because they are tired of life.  He often lamented:

“Those who did not know Long Hoa became confused.”

 This line clearly discloses that Lord Supreme Maitreya had come to the world, opened Long Hoa, and taught living creatures sinking in the ocean of suffering to help them get to the shore of enlightenment. Nobody in any religion waited for Him, and none of them could recognize this practical way of practicing in this Final Law Period: The awareness of one's own nature and the elimination of the Dharma Flower nature. Instead, they are confused and unrealistically wait for the explosion of the Seven Mountains.

“Here is precisely the Nagarjuna secular body.”

 He is now saying overtly that the Supreme Pure King in this life is actually the Nagajuna appearing in the secular body. The Nagarjuna body in the past is the exact present Lord Supreme Maitreya embodied in this saha world.

“With the mind and the brain of the fairies, sages, and deities.”

 Fairies, sages and deities are those who have the more sensible look than that of laypeople. These words are as clear-sighted and conscious as those from the fairies, sages and deities.

He said, overtly, that enlightenment is right in your body. Why they do not realize it and keep on aimlessly praying. These are truly words of the Buddha:

“I'm coming in this period to restore.”

The ultimate goal of Buddhas’ rebirth is to guide human beings on the right path to enlightenment, which was also the sealed indication of the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements. According to the teaching of the Supreme Pure King, the incarnation of Lord Supreme Maitreya in this period is the Dharma Ending Age; the bad one overshadows the true dharma. The disciples who prefer to make use of education, the study of Buddhist sutra, and form and sound to attain the dharma, become passively enlightened.

He did not create a new religion, but only restored and modified the way of practice according to the times, while aiming at liberation through wisdom, the main ideas of the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements.

 “Appearing as a layman: seal* -indication* - achievement*.”

He clearly let Human beings know that He was born as a layman who practices at home.

    *Indication: Suddenly insighted
    *Seal: The seal for attestation of the universe.
    *Achievement: The achievement of the incarnation of the Buddhas’ Three Dharma Elements.

Today, most of the disciples are conducting themselves in such a way to accuse Buddhism of being passive. On the other hand, the faithless, by their verbose rituals are pushing the faithful believers to fanatic practices. They focus on supplicating and praying rather than correcting their own nature, while creating integrity to dissolve the magic power.

“There are two ways to apparition of the Buddha.”

The way of isolation means renunciation - living in a pagoda or temple, having no spouse and children, and being free of family ties. Provided that the mind was clear and not polluted, they were always awakened before the external world.

The way of the laymen is the virtue of the lay disciple, living in a family with one's spouse and children, and with all the hardships of a normal family life. There is joy and sadness, happiness and suffering, and all make up the multiple manifestation of the dharma in the secular world. Provided that the mind was not polluted while getting in and out of the world, they can still able to be awakened.

Being laymen or practicing renunciation, you should still reach enlightenment if you are practicing in the right way. But He himself adopted a family practice with His wife and six children. This made those who had left their home to practice in a temple feel strange and lose confidence in Him.

The renunciation disciples, also known as “divine vehicle”, represent the pure practice group, based on purity to save. They have to rely on hearing, seeing, and knowing, which are all living dharma, to resolve all things, gradually clarifying the ignorance. They are no longer being polluted, and return to purity in order to be enlightened.

The renunciation disciple choses the quiet life, far from all conflicts, avoids unfavorable and impure dharma. Though being pure, it still remains a life of isolated purity, which is a dangerous practice and could never lead to the shore of enlightenment. This isolation practice of renunciation believers avoids the dirty and chooses the clean. It involuntarily becomes like the spirit of a fairy or deity and could never lead to full enlightenment.

Sakyamuni Buddha. Altar of Phap Tang in Las Vegas, U.S.

Sakyamuni Buddha, before his entering Nirvana, stated that the great compassionate bodhisattva Maitreya would return to the world in the Dharma Ending Age to come to save all living creatures. Maitreya would attain the level of Buddha and become the fifth Buddha succeeding the Sakyamuni Buddha. He would reform the teaching of Buddha while maintaining the true teaching of all Buddhas to make it survive for 5,000 years.

According to the Buddhist calendar, in the past 2,500 years, Lord Maitreya had returned six times. Three times he preached the Buddhist dharma in this saha world. These events were known by a great number of Buddhist followers. He had returned three more times, but in these he kept silent. Nobody knew about it. He was, in one incarnation, an adviser to the king and religious authority. In another incarnation, he was the king of China. He was also the teacher of dharma in Tibet in another incarnation. This will be discussed in more detail in later chapters.

1. Pho Dai Si

In one of his former lives, the Bodhisattva Maitreya returned to China with the name Pho Dai Si. It was not until His death that secular people would know that the Pho Dai Si was actually the incarnation of Lord Maitreya.

2. The Great Reverend QI-CI (CHANG DINGZI)

Great Reverend QI-CI

Also in China, at the time of Liang Dynasty, the Bodhisattva Maitreya had appeared again in this world with the title of Great Reverend QI-CI. His body differed from that of secular people. His forehead was wrinkled. His abdomen was enlarged. The trunk of his body was plump. When departing from life, He sat in meditation without any illness and passed away in meditation. By that time, secular people knew that the Great Reverend QI-CI was the Bodhisattva Maitreya who came to this Saha world.

3. Bodhisattva NAGARJUNA

In another past life, when the Bodhisattva Maitreya had returned to the world in India, He bore the name NAGARJUNA. At his passing, the secular people realized that the NAGARJUNA was just the incarnation of the Lord Maitreya. Whenever he appeared in this saha world, he always did numerous deeds for the living creatures according to his fundamental vows.

After the Second World War, and until now, all great reverends, great venerables, venerables, monks, and nuns believed that this is not yet the reappearance time of Lord Maitreya. They believe he is still in the Tusita Heaven, so there would be many more lifetimes before he would be reincarnated to continue the true dharma of the Sakyamuni Buddha.

On the contrary, in South Vietnam, there were a lot of predictions and prophecies that Lord Maitreya had returned to Vietnam and embodied himself in religions such as Catholicism, Buddhism, Caodaism, Tay An Monk, Hoa Hao, and in the Sage and even learned men. They firmly believed that Lord Maitreya was born in South Vietnam, but nothing happened. Time went ongoing, and nobody could hear or see the apparition of strange phenomenon, according to the Book of Oracles, in order to see him in person. Many people became more and more anxious and doubtful. According to the Great Collection, 2,500 years after Sakyamuni Buddha entering Nirvana, signals the Dharma Ending Age and Lord Maitreya’s reincarnation. But it is now the year 2538 of the Buddhist calendar and Lord Maitreya has not appeared in the world which made the learned men and faithful Buddhist disciples more doubtful.

4.  Lord Supreme Maitreya was Himself Kung-Ming

Statue of Kung Ming. Bought in Dalat.

Just before entering Nirvana, He visited Dalat city and bought a statue of Kung Ming, which He brought back to Nha Trang (left). He then inscribed below the statue:

“Life is an Ocean of Suffering; nobody can avoid the sufferings of life.
Even as the Prime Minister, Kung Ming Chuko Liang, had to bend his head to a pile of books, and take pains to find out a way to help life to be free from suffering.
The Universe never helps us. It is only our Mind that can save us.
The heartless are the cruelest.” –T.V.⁽¹⁾

Lord Supreme Maitreya’s conception about the dharma path was very clear. The disciple can not always rely on others, or simply supplicate and pray. He has to be diligent to correct his nature adequately to undergo the evolution of all dharma, and resolve to clear up his karma. After enlightenment, he will suddenly feel compassion for living creatures, love them as himself, and will not sit quietly and watch living creatures sink in the ocean of suffering.

One day Lord Supreme Maitreya taught (the author) as follows: You and I have been found throughout many lives side by side. Once I was chief advisor in China and I could not keep my eyes closed before the people who were groaning and suffering. I had to make use of my intelligence to try to find a way to salvation for life. Making the decision to practice the dharma today - though deprived of a strong army, a guard, or physical weapons beside me, I used my Buddha power, which is a thousand times stronger than before, to effectively find a salvation for life.

He then ordered His men to draw a picture of Koang-Kung (Quan Di) and hang it in his private study. Upon entering his room and seeing the picture of Koang-Kung in the position of escorting the imperial carriage, I suddenly remembered my former life and His intuitively. I was astonished to discover that he had been the Kung Ming of the Han Dynasty, chief advisor at the time of Liu Pei, also named Liu Xuande, in China.

What a strange thing! I was beyond astonished to see as far back as the year 191 with Liu Pei, Koang Kung, and Tchang Fei. After a discussion, they had arranged the initiation for their friendship the next day at the peach garden behind Tchang Fei’s house, laying out offerings and celebrating before heaven and earth.

Kung Ming, at that time, was the Lord Supreme Maitreya Himself. In the eyes of the Buddhist mediator, recognizing friendship became a very good cause for incarnation of this ever changing existence of human beings. We are now side by side in this modern and scientific era of this 20^th century! Lord Supreme Maitreya’s two verses that follow were also Kung Ming’s in the past. They remind us of the transmigration of souls and that we could meet each other in bodily form again if we have strong feeling for each other! 

From ancient history, until the present, mankind has advanced greatly in its civilization and modernization. Kung Ming, now with the title the Supreme Pure King, has also changed himself accordingly. He was successful in the domain of science and even in this world’s political domain. How wonderful it was!

Lord Supreme Maitreya appeared in this Saha World with only a third grade education, not having completed primary education. Compared to scientists and highly educated people with doctorate degrees and impressive scholarships, who have done many useful things for the betterment of humanity, they could not stand against his basic guidelines and primary truths. Scriptures of his entering into deeply enlightened meditation were scrutinized and admired by highly educated people who could not thoroughly understand His insight. Thus we clearly see that no level of education can surpass true enlightenment.

Koang Kung “Invisible Protector” Altar of Phap Tang.

During the Time of the Supreme Pure King’s ministry, Koang Kung, now an “Invisible Protector” and Deity, volunteered to guard the True Dharma. Koang Kung had diligently gone into the communist countries where he was greatly needed. He caused the blockade of temples to be lifted, reopening them for the faithful disciples who came there to worship, admire the Buddha, and practice according to their will. Thanks to the vow of salvation on the part of devas, deities, dragon deities, dharma protectors, and especially to Koang Kung, monks and nuns in communist countries were allowed to live in the temples and continue practicing dharma until the reform of the nation. Koang Kung often went to China and Taiwan to help the people there live in peace. Sometimes the situation was so grave that Koang Kung received orders himself directly from the Supreme Pure King incarnate, Lord Supreme Maitreya, to resolve indescribable difficulties.

It was Koang Kung personally (in the role of Invisible dharma protector) who had gone to the USSR several times during the period of tension between the USSR and China to prevent the USSR from pushing their troops into China.

Koang Kung had indeed earned a great merit for his assistance to devas, deities, dharma protectors and dragon deity dharma protectors, in promoting peace in the world in support of the true dharma under the guidance of the Supreme Pure King. This was a true miracle! It was Kung Ming of the past, now reincarnated as the Supreme Pure King who was truly behind such miraculous activity. Without this intervention all of the efforts by the west and others would have failed! Now the invisible dharma protector, Koang Kung, at the level of deity, followed the Pure King to open the way for practicing dharma. The Five Tigers Team as well as the courtiers of Liu Pei in the Han dynasty had also decided to practice in Phap Tang, which was “Long Hoa Association”.

Pic of The Five Tigers Team. Hang on at Central Highness Assembly at Nha Trang city

The Kings and their close advisors, of the dynasties of Dinh-Le-Ly-Tran, were also reborn and followed Him to practice the dharma in new bodies and under new names in this life. This is not strange because the groundwork had been laid beforehand. We can see from history that these dynasties were devoted to Buddhism. It makes sense that in their search for liberation through wisdom today, they could naturally meet again in this lifetime.

In this time, Liu Pei, with his assistants, was reborn as a man, and followed the path to enlightenment.

Koang Kung, also called Quan Van Truong (Vietnamese), was not reborn to be a man, but still remained in the invisible deity rank to help the true dharma. He often went to the USA and other places in the free world. The former Tchang Fei was President Chiang Kai Shek of Taiwan. Just before entering into Nirvana, the Supreme Pure King demonstrated that Koang Kung was an invisible dharma protector and advised me: “Later, you should tell those in the temples to worship Koang Kung!”

 It is truly remarkable that the dharma nature is now bountiful at the time of Kung Ming, just as it was in the past. The Five Tigers Team is also in the center of the ministries today helping with the diffusion of the dharma so that all people can practice with Him. Besides His true disciples, there are numerous descendants of Devadatta who also practiced the dharma. These tended to be nuisances however, full of jealousy and suspicion.

The Supreme Pure King also had the three verses inscribed, expressing the piety of Koang Kung:

Scientists and philosophers did not accept mystical explanations, seen in the eyes of a Buddhist master; they needed concrete evidence to be demonstrated. Although it was concretely demonstrated, they could not bring themselves to accept it as they lacked the eyes and insight of a higher level Buddhist.

When the Supreme Pure King was enlightened, he remembered all the former lives in the past. Lives that spanned hundreds and thousands of years could be completely seen. The future of humanity on this planet as well as the future of the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds was visible to Him. Explaining this to some would only give rise to arguments and would not help them open their eyes.

A few years ago, the news reported on seven planets appearing at the same time in the sky. The vast majority did not understand the significance. The Lord Supreme Maitreya had realized it, despite his knowledge, others could not be satisfied. If they would go to Vietnam to study, learn from the oriental, and discover right in their own body, hopefully that would be enough to satisfy them and help them develop a close association with the universe and God. Just as he did in the Proclamation for Attestation, He affirmed the presence of the invisible world. He told of the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds and worlds without number. Scientists today have also confirmed that there are numberless planets, but they cannot discover the meaning of life, which can be seen only by the eye of the Buddhist master.

Why? Because the Buddhist master is always ascending, basing His experiences on the applied knowledge of life to control His nature. As a result, He becomes like a super-human, a sacred philosopher who can truly see everything. As long as selfishness still exists, using knowledge as a means to enlightenment is useless.

5.  Emperor LI SHIMIN (TAIZONG)

Emperor LI SHIMIN

Under the TANG dynasty in China, Emperor LI SHIMIN was actually the Bodhisattva Lord Supreme Maitreya. In the mean time, the incarnation of the Venerable Moggallana was actually Hsun Tsang, who went on a pilgrimage of sutra from China to India. Thus the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya stated:

“The Bodhisattva (Maitreya) acquired the highest point of determination. He was spontaneously tranquil, without polluted-love. He respectfully worshipped the Amitabha Buddha by, first, dwelling in the pure land, and then made the great vow to return to the world.

Returning to the world, he would be a brilliant king, a leader capable of saving his country and his people, delivering them from the yoke of slavery. Wherever he was reborn, he became a salvation leader, never being an ordinary man. Why does he have to be a king or leader? Being a king or leader, he could later possess a majestic nation and become the Buddha, first to save his people and later to master the universe. That is, of course, an obvious matter.” –T.V.

He has also taught: Being a king aims to cultivate the talent, which brings about the wisdom. The virtue had been accumulated through many lifetimes of practice. The wisdom was then needed to balance virtue with wisdom. The disciple had to acquire a superior goodness to get virtue as large as the sea. The supreme wisdom is the matchless one. It is by possessing a transcendent virtue and wisdom that one could become the Buddha. This one is thus, neither gentle nor cruel, good nor evil. It is by practicing the right way where re-birth ends and one can become immortal, which is a matter of course.

The sage goes only on the right side of life since he has insufficient talent to face the wrong side. He is subject to die without complaint. He nevertheless shows his compassion for them. This dharma path has neither enlightenment nor supreme wisdom. The only wisdom a sage could attain, at most, is awakening. The fully awakened one is the enlightened one, who should wait to personally see the great power, Lord Supreme Maitreya, and undergo many tests and verifications before attesting to enter into the constitution.

Sakyamuni Buddha has attested to the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and Maitreya Bodhisattva, and others. In this final law period, Long Hoa had been opened for thirty-seven years by Lord Supreme Maitreya, but those who proclaimed themselves the “Enlightened Ones” did not come personally to see Him in order to be Attested. They proclaimed themselves to be the Buddha. Obviously, they were not true Buddhas. Proclaiming with insufficient abilities and merits, they will be caught in the disastrous “Buddha sphere” through incalculable lifetimes.

On the other hand, the faithful disciples knew that when the Lord Supreme Maitreya returned to the world, all of the patriarchs, from the time of Sakyamuni Buddha, drew close to Him to practice the Dharma.

During China’s Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Shimin, coming into the world, was actually the Bodhisattva Maitreya. He lived at the same time as the Venerable Moggallana incarnating Master Hsuan Tsang, who went on a pilgrimage for sutra. A noteworthy point: The faithful believer has to recognize that before Master Hsuan Tsang’s passing, one of his true disciples named Yen-Ts’ung, and others asked him:

“Are you sure that you will be reborn in the Tusita Heaven?”

“Sure”, replied the Master. And He said:

“This toxic body of Master Hsuan Tsang is truly boring. Now that my work has ended, I really should not remain here. I would like to transfer all of my merits and knowledge to all living creatures, wishing that all of us would be reborn in the Tusita Heaven to follow Lord Maitreya Bodhisattva, to practice dharma and to serve Him.

When the Buddha returns to the world we wish to be able to return there with Him to accomplish Buddhist works until the supreme purpose is attained.”

After saying these words of farewell, the Master continued to enter into meditation. Then, He recited a verse of eulogy to the Lord Supreme Maitreya and established His vow before being reborn in the Tusita Heaven. After the recital, His breath gradually became weaker, and he passed away tranquilly. His skin was still with good color and His countenance was joyful. After seven days, His countenance did not change and His body did not emit any unpleasant odors. It was the year 664 of the 7^th century. This oath of vow, until now in the 20^th century, has been responded to in the most vigorous manner and with the highest sincerity, and has been attested to by the Supreme Pure King incarnating the Lord Supreme Maitreya. This can affirm that the transmigration cycle of reincarnation is true.

Emperor Li Shimin and the Master Huyen Trang (Hsuan Tsang–Chinese)

Lord Supreme Maitreya returned this time at the second half of the 20^th century. He appeared as a layman, the Master Huyen Trang (Hsuan Tsang – Chinese) also appeared as a layman. The patriarchs, from the time of the Sakyamuni Buddha appeared now with the full conduct of laymen at home. All of them were married, had children, and practiced all careers in the South Vietnam society.

They were now gathering in sufficient numbers following Lord Supreme Maitreya, to practice. Among them, Huyen Trang, in His new incarnation and new name, was selected by the Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya to be head of the central ministry, to progress the Buddhist works during the path of ministry of the Lord in this world. Huyen Trang also underwent the difficulties and hardships of the Final Law Period. These hardships were a thousand times greater than when he went on a pilgrimage of sutra. Many true disciples of the Lord Pure King, practicing side by side with Huyen Trang, had tried through conspiracy to thrust, subvert, and thrash the later... but they did not have enough of the prajna mind, so they were defeated after numerous attempts.

Really, it is a rare thing: The ancient vow, made in the seventh century, holding true in the twentieth century, the century in which the Lord Supreme Maitreya appeared. Today, this vow is resolved with an accurate outcome.

Once again: “When the Lord Supreme Maitreya returns to the world, we would like to come along with Him, progressing the Buddhist work until we attain the Supreme Purpose.” This vow had been realized and had been fulfilled. This has been attested to by The Lord Supreme Maitreya Buddha in the Great Ceremony, (the 30^th day of the 9^th month of the lunar year 1989.)

We can discern that the disciple with the faithful, fervent mind is always concerned and attested by the Buddhas of Ten Directions without omission. If the Master Hsuan Tsang had not been reborn in the Tusita Heaven, according to his concluding vow, how could we see that in this final period? Lord Supreme Maitreya and Hsuan Tsang appeared at the same time as laymen, and they meet each other in the final lifetime when Lord Supreme Maitreya became Buddha. Hsuan Tsang had also successfully served in conformity with his vow. There were reunions in all previous lifetimes, but whenever Lord Supreme Maitreya lived as a layman, all the disciples also appeared as laymen. For this reason we should know that there was an arrangement of the Lord before His returning to the world. All had been gathered and arranged beforehand.

In the second half of the eleventh century, the Venerable Moggallana, reborn in Tibet, was the Lama Milarepa. History had written this event in the book “Milarepa, the Transcendent Man”. Lord Supreme Maitreya was then the Master who taught the dharma to Milarepa. So many lifetimes of actively fulfilling the vow belonged to the category of inconceivability, which was waiting to be attested to in this Final Law Period. The continuous long chains of effort were accomplished in many lifetimes of diligent, tireless practice. The hard endurance through the evolution of all dharma, on some occasions, was worn out. Many cultivators ran away in this Dharma-Ending Age, unable to endure and returned to the temples and homes, while avoiding the evolution of all dharma in the world!

One day The Supreme Pure King incarnating Lord Supreme Maitreya said: Among his countless true disciples today, (those of lowest rank) were also the officers and advisors. The others were the high officers in the time of Kung-Ming and that of the Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty. They all presently made up their mind to practice the dharma. These things affirm that the foundation was deeply set and today is able to stand unified./-

(1) T.V.: Abbreviation of Tịnh Vương, Supreme Pure King Buddha.
     One of original Vietnamese titles of Lord Supereme Maitreya Buddha.