DDM Global News

DDM held a 90–day retreat for the first time

Cultivating Talents for Chinese Chan Buddhism: Near one thousand practitioners experienced the methods of Huatou and Silent Illumination in-depth

On International Children’s Book Day: DDM Donated Desks for the Use at Home by the Schoolchildren at Pingxi

“A kind donation of desks from DDM; an enhancement of learning for the students at Pingxi Elementary School in New Taipei City” Designed to be a blessed and happy surprise for the schoolchildr...

Gilbert led the 7-day retreat in Taiwan

120 global practitioners experienced the Chan practices of Master Sheng Yen in the early years At DDM World Center for Buddhist Education, Gilbert Gutierrez, the Dharma Heir of Master Sheng Yen...

Lay Bodhisattva Precepts: 1163 laities receive the precepts at DDM, resolving to learn the bodhisattva’s action

Following days of rehearsals of the ritual, explanation of the precepts, and practices of repentance, at 10:30 am on March 10, 1163 lay Buddhists from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Canada, Japan, Thai...

Nung Chan Monastery will not be open from April 27 to May 4

[Notice] Nung Chan Monastery will not be open from April 27 to May 4 for 7-day Foundation Chan Retreat. For your kind reference, as Nung Chan Monastery is holding the 7-Day Foundation Chan Re...

Awaking Camp: Starting off a journey of “the enlightened.”

On Jan 19 -29, Dharma Drum Sangha University held the 16th Awakening Camp at Chan Hall of DDM World Center for Buddhist Education. More than 130 youth participants from the US, Spain, various cou...