Perhaps, it is well to go back some five years, to a night in when Madam “The Sutra of Ksitigarbha’s Fundamental Vows” has the most direct connection with us sentient beings in this chaotic, troubled and distressed era and world. The Buddha foresaw the suffering and chaos in this Dharma- lining Period that we are now living in, which is due to our own individual as well as collective deeds well-known sutras he translated include the eighty-fascicle ver-sion of the Flower Adornment Sutra, the sev