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Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM; Chinese: 法鼓山; pinyin: Fǎgǔ Shān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hoat-kó͘-soaⁿ) is an international Buddhist spiritual, cultural, and educational foundation founded by late Chan master Sheng-yen (1931–2009). [1]
Sheng Yen was the founder of the Dharma Drum Mountain, a Buddhist organization based in Taiwan. During his time in Taiwan, Sheng Yen was well known as a progressive Buddhist teacher who sought to teach Buddhism in a modern and Western-influenced world.
Beitou, Taipei, Taiwan The Nung Chan Monastery ( Chinese : 農禪寺 ; pinyin : Nóngchánsì meaning 'Farming Ch'an ') is a monastery at Beitou District , Taipei , Taiwan . It was formally founded in 1975 by Dongchu , a scholar monk and disciple of renowned Chinese Buddhist master Taixu . [ 1 ]
Cheng Yen was born "Chin-Yun Wong" [24] in 1937 in Kiyomizu Town, Taikō District, Taichū Prefecture, Japanese Taiwan (modern-day Qingshui, Taichung City, Taiwan). [17] Unlike the other Four Heavenly Kings, Cheng Yen was born in Taiwan rather than mainland China. [25] Cheng-Yen grew up under the Japanese occupation of Taiwan during World War II.
Starting in 1966, Master Chan Yun founded the “Fast and Precept Association” (Chinese: 齋戒協會; pinyin: zhai jie xie hui); its motto is “the vinaya is our guide” (Chinese: 以戒為師; pinyin: yi jie wei shi).
Taiwan, [II] [i] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [I] is a country [27] in East Asia. [l] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
The current official position of the party is that Taiwan is an independent and sovereign country whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens living in Taiwan (similar philosophy of self-determination), based on the 1999 "Resolution on Taiwan's Future".
ROCS Tso Ying (DDG-1803; Chinese: 左營號; Wade–Giles: Tso 3 Ying 2 Hao 2) is a Kee Lung-class guided-missile destroyer currently in active service of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN; Taiwan). It was formally commissioned at Suao Naval Base in northeastern Taiwan on 3 November 2006 along with sister ship ROCS Ma Kong (DDG-1805).