The third International Symposium on Guanyin Culture was organized by the Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) Confederation of 108 Lokitesvaras and the Center for Chinese Studies of National Central Library in Taiwan, and the Shyushi Institute in Japan was entrusted with implementation of the virtual event. The forum was once halted due to COVID-19, but finally materialized on December 7, 2021, with livestreaming covering the two conference venues respectively at the National Library in Taipei and the Cres

The idea that across space and time to meet Bodhisattva Guanyin was realized on December 7 by conferees of the third International Symposium on Guanyin Culture held simultaneously at the National Central Library in Taipei, Taiwan, and the Creston Hotel in Nagoya, Japan. Six speakers took turns from their respective locations to address Guanyin teachings and their significance which matured over time. The Symposium thus helps disseminate the spirit of Guanyin’s kindness and compassion across the

Highlight of Day 2 of the Second International Forum on the Guan Yin Culture: Science & Technology Widen the Buddhist Path When Devotion Serves Us a Lamp to Navigate Through the Darkness

Of the greatest Bodhisattvas in Buddhism, it can be said that Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva has become the widest-spread as he embodies the great compassion. Ever since Buddhism began to spread out from India at the top of the Common Era, Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva was venerated and worshiped wherever Buddhism flourished. In Asia in particular, as the phenomenon is billed as ‘the faith followed by half of Asia’.

Dharma Master Hsin Tao was born in 1948 in the Laikaan Village in the Laidao mountains of the Lashio area of Myanmar(Burma). Up in the mountains near the border to China’s Yunnan province, the small village was in the region usually referred to as the Golden Triangle.

Founding Abbot of the Ling Jiou Mountain, Dharma Master Hsin Tao, was an orphan from the war-torn Myanmar where he lost his parents early on. As a child soldier, he repatriated to Taiwan with the Solitary Army, and the army doctor once told him about the proper way to refer to Guan Yin, the sheer name stroke a chord in his heart and drew tears to his eyes. That’s when Master Hsin Tao as a young man began to learn to recite the Mahakaruna Dharani(Great Compassion Mantra) and embarked on the journ