Seeing the beloved off , global participants of the 2022 Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) Water-Land Dharma Assembly chanted the name of Amitabha with wholehearted wishes. They were in the end of the “Send-off” ceremony on August 17 of the annual Water-Land Assembly to farewell their ancestors, family members and “karmic debtors” who were about to depart for the Pure Land with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas thanks to the benefits and merits the former created in the 14-day Dharma service. The accumulated me

The Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) Water-Land Dharma Assembly opened with a purification Ritual for its site at the Sheng Shan Monastery on August 20 to continue over a 21-day period of collective recitation of Buddhist scriptures and Dharma functions to reach a perfect completion in the afternoon of September 10 and thus marking a full stop for the signature LJM annual event a particular one - in that it was the first-time ever that the Dharma Assembly returned to the LJM headquarters for expanded im

The 28th LJM Water-Land-Air Dharma Assembly commenced at the Sheng Shan Temple - Lower Monastery of the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM) - on August 20, 2021. The grand eight-day-seven-night tradition of that signature LJM Dharma event, however, expanded to encompass a 21-day online retreat under the same label as a collective effort by all practicing LJM masters under Dharma Master Hsin Tao’s vows of compassion to consolidate power of mindfulness to help protect a world plagued by a li

During the 21-day online retreat for the Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) Water-Land Dharma Assembly 2021, LJM Founding Abbot - Dharma Master Hsin Tao - not only presided over the ritual procedures but invited Burmese Sadayaws to give post-event sermons at the Theravada Altar at the event's remote site. Both venerable masters offered kind words of encouragement to wish Buddhist students great advancement in mindfulness so that they remain blessed with good health and peaceful mind plus ever-increasing f

Encompassing rituals of three vehicles in Buddhism- Theravada, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna traditions- has always been a special feature of the Water-Land Dharma Assembly by the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM). In the face of a still lingering COVID-19 and political unrest in Myanmar, the signature LJM Water-Land Dharma Assembly event moved online for live streaming and digital sharing. From August 20 to 26, 11 Bhikkhus in Myanmar performed 6 Dripping Ceremonies for merits, and LJM follower

Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM) created its first-ever Water Land Dharma Assembly in Taichung in 1994. Its solemn atmosphere helped all participants attain peace at heart, while its liberation effect made people realize how miraculously well the Dharma event functioned and thereby firmly established itself as LJM's annual liberation rituals henceforth. The special 8-day-7-night Dharma event connects as an invisible bridge for sentient beings in their separate worlds respectively for th

The LJM Water-Land-Air Dharma Assembly has always been the most celebrated event of the year for the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society(LJM). A large gathering of followers participates in the grand ritual of 8D7N to connect and communicate with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, along with their respective ancestors, spirits from all six realms, even past debtors from previous karmic cycles to pray for blessings, undo wrongs, eradicate misfortunes, and reconcile with life in an act that benefits oursel

Dharma Master Hsin Tao and VIP Guests light up Lamps for Homage to Buddhas and pray for good Deeds by Virtue of People’s purified Hearts.

The 25th Water, Land and Air Dharma Ritual of Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) is an 8-day-7-night event, and the ‘Precepts for the Deceased’ was the focus of the Buddha function in the evening of August 13th dedicated to the dead...

One o’clock after midnight, August 11, and all lights were on at the Taoyuan Arena, as the 2018 Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) Water, Land and Air Dharma Ritual commenced to construct the Enchantment as a very special Dharma feast at its inner shrine. Strong percussion music...