Dharma Master Hsin Tao, Founding Abbot of the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM), once remarked that ‘the future of the Earth is the future of humankind’. The LJM University for Life & Peace launched in 2020 a media boot camp with hands-on training for media production for environment-conscious youth in Taiwan, New York, and London. The project aims at facilitating the young participants’ video production to lend expression to their oceanic views. An exhibition of their creative video pro

Dharma Master Hsin Tao, Founding Abbot of the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society(LJM), has been promoting the ‘Loving the Earth, Loving Peace’ campaign for decades to advocate Spiritual Ecology by engaging LJM’s affiliated enterprises in environmental initiatives ranging from mass education over go-green campaigns to beach cleaning actions. To play an active part in World Earth Day 2022 on April 22, the LJM released a special film production entitled ‘Mother Earth Calling’ with subtitles in Eng

Dharma Master Hsin Tao, Founding Abbot of the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM) , said that the future of the Earth is the future of mankind. In 2020, the LJM University for Life & Peace rolled out the ‘Here on Earth 2020’ program as a youth media project focusing on environmental protection. Young people of Taiwan, New York, and London joined the hands-on media camp to curate video documentaries and speak out for marine ecology as aspiring environmental activists. The ‘Here on Earth 202

In support of the World Earth Day on April 22, the Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) University for Life & Peace (ULP) co-organized an arts festival entitled Ocean Waters as a part of the Here-on-Earth 2021 initiative of the New York Chan Space Meditation Center. The festival opened with a screening plus a concert in New York on April 23, then celebrated a multi-site happening in New York/London/Taipei on April 24. Live streaming was the format to highlight short films produced by international youth and

Co-hosted by Here on Earth, The Hyde Park Suzuki Institute, and Together in Harmony, we want to dedicate these music and ocean themed films to the frontline workers, elderly at nursing homes, and communities impacted by Covid-19. Through an evening of performance, film screening, and conversation between young artists and their audience, we want to share our collective vision for a better future.

Ling Jiou Mountain's 3rd Winter School, a pilot project of the future University for Life & Peace (ULP) since 2019 and also the first digital version of the program due to COVID-19, took place between 8 - 10 P.M. (GMT Taipei) on January 22, 23, 29, and 30. The student body consisted of more than 100 participants from 16 countries including Germany, UK, France, the USA, Myanmar, etc. The online program also involved the participants with group discussions on topics presented by experts of psychol

The third Winter School of Ling Jiou Mountain's (LJM) future University for Life & Peace (ULP) was officiated on January 22, with more than 60 people for faculty and the student body from Germany, the USA and China participating in the opening of the online program. With ‘Decision-making’ for its theme, Winter School 2021 as a digital offering conducts its lectures, group discussions, and other academic activities online that focus on how to achieve and implement decisions amidst ecological cris

Dharma Master Hsin Tao, Founding Abbot of the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society(LJM), has been consistent in making an all-out effort to promote the ‘Loving the Earth, Loving Peace’ ideal while seeing to it that the long-term environment campaign take a deep rooting among the youth. A case in point is the recent event ‘Here On Earth: Ocean Water’ that attracted 50 young people aged 14-19 from Taipei, London, and New York to participate in an ad hoc project that aims at equipping the young with

Join young people aged 14-19 in London & New York & Taiwan in a free,online media arts program!!