At the invitation of Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Elaine Yuen, Professor from Naropa University, gave a lecture on March 20 and 27 respectively, in which she shared how Buddhist Chaplaincy Program at Naropa University is carried out, and the talk titled ”Harm from Ethical Contribution and Self-compassion” also shed light upon mental burdens that chaplains often face with.

Cultivating Talents for Chinese Chan Buddhism: Near one thousand practitioners experienced the methods of Huatou and Silent Illumination in-depth

May 12, 2019
The 8th day of the fourth lunar month
The Buddha's birthday
Have you bathed the Buddha statue yet?

Please calm your mind
Commemorate the Buddha
Be grateful to our parents
Be grateful to every person and everything we encounter
Then, make a good wish!

On the Buddha's birthday,
make a good wish for the world.

“A kind donation of desks from DDM; an enhancement of learning for the students at Pingxi Elementary School in New Taipei City”

Designed to be a blessed and happy surprise for the schoolchildren, the donation ceremony of these desks was arranged to occur before the Children’s Day, at 10:00AM April 2 at the Yangshan Pavilion in Pingxi Elementary School. The students were overjoyed when they saw the bookshelves and the desk lamps with built-in devices to protect their eyes. Coinciding with the International Children’s Book Day, these donations will remain forever in these children’s hearts.

120 global practitioners experienced the Chan practices of Master Sheng Yen in the early years

At DDM World Center for Buddhist Education, Gilbert Gutierrez, the Dharma Heir of Master Sheng Yen from the U.S. hosted the 7-day bilingual Chan Retreat from March 2 to 9, 2019. One hundred and twenty attendees from 16 countries of America, Europe and South Eastern Asia, ranging from age of 25 to 74, including new and 20 to 30 years experienced practitioners, even non-Buddhists joined the retreat.

Question:
Can we explain mystical experiences as some sort of physical phenomena?


Answer:
Physical phenomena refer to the matters and forces studied in physics, such as magnetic fields and forces, electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic induction, optics, velocity of light, thermal energy, gaseous energy, gasification, and so on. Mystical experiences generally refer to people’s receptions and sensations of spiritual forces. The correct way to generate mystical experiences is to attain extraordinary functions of the mind, body and sense organs through methods of cultivation. Mystical experiences may also be taken as the function of resonant responses between practitioners and the buddhas, bodhisattvas, various divine beings as well as ghost and deities.

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Dharma Drum English Website would be out of service from April 29 a.m. 0.00 to p.m. 23.59 for upgrading the server.

The service will be reopened after April 30.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience.

Sincerely
Dharma Drum Mountain

SHIH-FU:

You know you want to benefit from daily practice, but you don't know how to go about doing it.

First, you should have a proper mental attitude towards practice. Second, you should know and use a method.

Following days of rehearsals of the ritual, explanation of the precepts, and practices of repentance, at 10:30 am on March 10, 1163 lay Buddhists from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Canada, Japan, Thailand, New Zealand, Malaysia, Australia, Singapore and Taiwan gathered together to take the Bodhisattva Precept for Lay Practitioners at DDM World Center for Buddhist Education in New Taipei City, aspiring to help build a pure land on earth by upholding the spirit of the bodhisattva’s great vows.

[Notice] Nung Chan Monastery will not be open from April 27 to May 4 for 7-day Foundation Chan Retreat.

For your kind reference, as Nung Chan Monastery is holding the 7-Day Foundation Chan Retreat, from April 27 to May 4, 2019, the Campus will NOT be open to the general public within the above duration.

During this period of time, activities only take account of Retreat; neither sight-seeing nor photographing were permitted.

The campus will be reopening as soon as the retreat is ended after May 4. Many thanks for your kind attention.


Nung Chan Monastery
With Joined Palms