Archive for February, 2009

Kokushi

Posted by Catherine Hennessy on Thursday, February 26th, 2009
 
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Hello and welcome to Ancient Tales of Wisdom on Sound of Hope Radio Network. This is Catherine Hennessy. Today I’m going to narrate to you a Chinese story called ‘Kokushi’. I hope you will enjoy it.
During the Tang Dynasty, there lived a monk named Wu Tatsu Kokushi, who was awarded the Kokushi [...]

An Emperor Who Paid Great Respect to Heaven and Worked Tirelessly for His People

Posted by Catherine Hennessy on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
 
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Hello and welcome to Ancient Tales of Wisdom on Sound of Hope Radio Network. This is Catherine Hennessy. Today I’m going to narrate to you a Chinese story called ‘An Emperor Who Paid Great Respect to Heaven and Worked Tirelessly for His People’. I hope you will enjoy it.
Emperor Yu’s surname was [...]

Emperor Kang Xi Taught His Children to Recite a Book 120 Times

Posted by Catherine Hennessy on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
 
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Hello and welcome to Ancient Tales of Wisdom on Sound of Hope Radio Network. This is Catherine Hennessy. Today I’m going to narrate to you a Chinese story called ‘Emperor Kang Xi Taught His Children to Recite a Book 120 Times’. I hope you will enjoy it.
During the early period of the [...]

Bamboo and the Turtle

Posted by Chris Thomas on Thursday, February 19th, 2009
 
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A party of visitors had been seeing the sights at Hsi Ling. They had just passed down the Holy Way between the huge stone animals when Bamboo, a little boy of twelve, son of a keeper, rushed out from his father’s house to see the mandarins go by. Such a parade of great men he [...]