It is a time-honored tradition for Chinese people to go to temples and pay homage to Buddhas for blessings during the Lunar New Year holidays besides performing customary duties like family gatherings and calls on relatives and friends. Mostly, people pray for a good year ahead and troubles mitigated or removed. Modern technologies and global urbanization, however, make it an increasingly rare and cherished experience for families with members living apart and away to reunite for a few days duri

Celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Ling Jiou Mountain Legion of Dharmapala took place at the Heping Sports Arena in Taipei on October 31, 2020. Residential masters of LJM joined the Legion's commissioners in celebrating the life-glorifying event, which was taken online for live streaming to be shared with all LJM followers the world over. The event served to express gratitude to Legion commissioners for their services and dedications that have been and continue to be mission-critical fo

Thank you all for the warm birthday wishes. A birthday marks the beginning of life. What, then, do we do with life? Do good? Do wrong? Pursue Buddhahood? Or aspire to become a god? Options abound, but only a few would know how to blossom. Indeed, how? And how does one make sure that each blossom matures properly? Our life is like a flower that has an innate strength to blossom that can be observed, just like how a photographer captures that strength that renders the blossoming fresh and life bea

The Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society (LJM) held a special Dharma function with sacred rituals to dedicate an accumulated total of 100 millions of chants of the Heart of Shurangama Sutra on April 22 for its participation in the World Earth Day 2020. The dedication was presented as a congregation of positive thoughts and blessings in prayers for world peace and global harmony, with the chants’ garnered virtues ascribed to flattening the curve of infections the soonest and the calamities banishe

In the Buddhist scripture 'The Ullambana Sutra' , Maudgalyayana followed Buddha’s instructions to liberate his deceased Mother, who descended to the Hungry Ghost Destiny for bad karma she had caused while living, by making offerings of Five Fruits of Hundred Flavors and the world’s best delicacies as provisions for sanghas of great virtues from all Ten Directions. Two major Buddhist events are marked and celebrated for the lunar month of July - the Waterland Dharma Assembly for the ancestors and