The Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) Charity Foundation and the Taoyuan General Hospital (TGH) signed a MOU in Taiwan on October 20 to promote sharing of experience, training and service of medical professionals between Taiwan and Myanmar. The ceremony was held at the LJM Wu Sheng Monastery with the hope to reinforce bilateral medical exchange and cooperation. The MOU specifies plans of training medical personnel, designing proper health education materials and programs for local people, providing inter

The lingering COVID-19 has been tormenting the world and the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM) answers back with multiple relief missions joined by followers from all over to help those in need. Cases in point include the donation of 100 oxygen generators for hospital ventilators in Nepal, the set-up of a pandemic fund for Myanmar’s remote area. When a shortage of daily commodities hit Canada in September 2020, LJM followers reached out to provide warm meals on Fridays to the homeless

Masters of the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM) recently tidied up a quantity of second-hand winter quilts for donations to schools of bhikkhunis in remote areas of Myanmar, prompting the LJM Charity Foundation to launch an expanded drive that collected over a thousand new winter quilts to help refugees in war-torn northern regions of Myanmar. A kind notion of compassion triggered a chain reaction of good to connect the dots between Taiwan and Myanmar to help many people navigate this y

Wedged between political upheavals and pandemic fallouts, Myanmar faces a near-collapse on all fronts in terms of public sanitation, health system and its overall economies. Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) teamed up with the Community Partners Int’l (CPI) and the first donation of US$10K in September was appropriated for the procurement of oxygen cylinders at 40 units each for the 40Ls and 10Ls respectively. Further charity drive will hopefully raise sufficient funds for the construction of oxygen plan

New waves of the outburst of COVID-19 infections have taken Nepal by storm with the daily count of confirmed positive tests at 30 times its average rate before. Among those tested positive are also Mount Everest climbers and Nepal’s medical system is at capacity, with the lockdown to last until the end of May. Dharma Master Hsin Tao, Founding Abbot of Taiwan’s Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM), instructed the LJM charity foundation to dispatch timely assistance for its counterpart - th

The Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM) made a donation of a COVID-19 relief fund at MMK$8.3Mn plus rescue materials like foodstuff in value of MMK$16.7Mn to people of Bago, where the future LJM University for Life & Peace will be situated in Myanmar. The donation ceremony on May 21 proceeded with LJM Patron Representative Tin San Myint and the future University’s Liaison Office Representative Nyi Nyi Zin on behalf of LJM. Bago Region Chief Minister U Win Thein was there to receive the don

The Ling Jiou Mountain (LJM) Meditation Center in Thailand is filled to the brim with relief materials ready to go, and all the bags are full of goodies filled with compassion. The first round of distribution took place on the morning of May 16, with 500 households on the receiving end of livelihood stuff like rice, cooking oil, canned food, mangos, and food made of sticky rice, etc. The second round of distribution has been scheduled for May 30 at the same location.

The Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM) made a donation of US$7.000 to the city government of Sankhu, Nepal, for the procurement of livelihood necessities to help mitigate the impact by COVID-19. On behalf of the 1,200 households that received support, Sankhu mayor Subarna expressed gratitude for the timely relief and formally recognized the spirit of the Buddhist compassion. Master Miao Yueh , an LJM executive in charge of the LJM Milarepa Meditation Center, supports the notion of riding

The Sound of Peace concert to show gratitude to Mother Earth was moved online due to COVID-19. Livestreaming began at 9:30 AM Eastern Time in the US (9:30 PM in Taiwan) and the music served the purpose of soothing restlessness and anxiety triggered by the pandemic. Interfaith blessings were also offered by invited representatives of different religions and communities to pray for the Earth's peace and sustainability. The cloud concert was organized by the LJM Buddhist Society New York and others

COVID-19 spread out has become global and all countries have been severely impacted economically and socially, with lockdowns issued by governments in the USA, Indonesia, Nepal, and Myanmar to name but a few. The Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM) has been supporting a total of 1,170 households (800 in Lashio, 370 in Naung Mon) in Myanmar since April 30 to-date. With 6 monasteries for respectively bhikkhus and bhikkhunis still on the recipient list, the net worth of donation currently rea