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Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM) is an international Buddhist spiritual, cultural, and educational foundation founded by late Chan Master Sheng-yen (1930 – 2009). [1]

39 relations: Architect, Beitou, Bhaisajyaguru, Buddhism, Buddhism in Taiwan, Chan Buddhism, China, Chinese Buddhism, Chung Tai Shan, Construction, Dharma, Discipline (academia), Dongchu, Environmentalism, Fo Guang Shan, Geomorphology, Graduate school, Guanyin, Guo Yuan (Zen monk), Human, Informatics, Jinshan District, Jinshan District, New Taipei, Mahayana, Meditation, Monastery, Nature, New Taipei City, Nung Chan Monastery, Postgraduate education, Recitation, Sheng-yen, Social environment, Spirituality, Taiwan, Taixu, Tzu Chi, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake.

Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.

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Beitou

Beitou District is the northernmost of the twelve districts of Taipei City, Taiwan.

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Bhaisajyaguru

Bhaiṣajyaguru, formally Bhaiṣajya-guru-vaiḍūrya-prabhā-rāja ("King of Medicine Master and Lapis Lazuli Light"), is the Buddha of healing and medicine in Mahāyāna Buddhism.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Buddhism in Taiwan

Buddhism is one of the major religions of Taiwan. Taiwanese people predominantly practice Mahayana Buddhism, Confucian principles, local practices and Taoist tradition.

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Chan Buddhism

Chan (of), from Sanskrit dhyāna (meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese Buddhism

Chinese Buddhism or Han Buddhism has shaped Chinese culture in a wide variety of areas including art, politics, literature, philosophy, medicine, and material culture.

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Chung Tai Shan

Chung Tai Shan is a Taiwan-based Buddhist monastic order founded by the Venerable Master Wei Chueh in 1987.

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Construction

Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure.

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Dharma

Dharma (dharma,; dhamma, translit. dhamma) is a key concept with multiple meanings in the Indian religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism.

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Discipline (academia)

An academic discipline or academic field is a branch of knowledge.

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Dongchu

Dongchu (1907–1977) was a Chinese Ch'an Master in Mainland China and later in Taiwan, and also the teacher of respected modern-day Ch'an Master Sheng-yen.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.

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Fo Guang Shan

Fo Guang Shan is an international Chinese Buddhist monastic order and new religious movement based in Taiwan.

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Geomorphology

Geomorphology (from Ancient Greek: γῆ, gê, "earth"; μορφή, morphḗ, "form"; and λόγος, lógos, "study") is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of topographic and bathymetric features created by physical, chemical or biological processes operating at or near the Earth's surface.

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Graduate school

A graduate school (sometimes shortened as grad school) is a school that awards advanced academic degrees (i.e. master's and doctoral degrees) with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate (bachelor's) degree with a high grade point average.

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Guanyin

Guanyin or Guan Yin is an East Asian bodhisattva associated with compassion and venerated by Mahayana Buddhists and followers of Chinese folk religions, also known as the "Goddess of Mercy" in English.

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Guo Yuan (Zen monk)

Guo Yuan (born 1950) is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk trained in Chan Buddhism.

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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Informatics

Informatics is a branch of information engineering.

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Jinshan District

Jinshan District, is a suburban district of southwestern Shanghai, neighboring Zhejiang province and Hangzhou Bay.

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Jinshan District, New Taipei

Jinshan District is a rural district on the coast in northern New Taipei, Taiwan.

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Mahayana

Mahāyāna (Sanskrit for "Great Vehicle") is one of two (or three, if Vajrayana is counted separately) main existing branches of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophies and practice.

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Meditation

Meditation can be defined as a practice where an individual uses a technique, such as focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity, to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe.

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New Taipei City

New Taipei City is a special municipality and the most populous city in Taiwan.

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Nung Chan Monastery

The Nung Chan Monastery (meaning 'Farming Ch'an') is a monastery at Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education, or graduate education in North America, involves learning and studying for academic or professional degrees, academic or professional certificates, academic or professional diplomas, or other qualifications for which a first or bachelor's degree generally is required, and it is normally considered to be part of higher education.

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Recitation

A recitation in a general sense is the act of reciting from memory, or a formal reading of verse or other writing before an audience.

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Sheng-yen

Sheng Yen (聖嚴; Pinyin: Shèngyán, birth name Zhang Baokang, 張保康) (January 22, 1931 – February 3, 2009) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, a religious scholar, and one of the mainstream teachers of Chan Buddhism.

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Social environment

The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops.

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Spirituality

Traditionally, spirituality refers to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man," oriented at "the image of God" as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Taixu

Taixu, (8 January 1890 – 17 March 1947) was a Buddhist modernist, activist and thinker who advocated the reform and renewal of Chinese Buddhism.

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Tzu Chi

Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, Republic of China, known for short as the Tzu Chi Foundation (t; literally "Compassionate Relief"), is a Taiwanese international humanitarian and non-governmental organization (NGO) with over 10 million members worldwide throughout 47 countries.

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2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake occurred at 00:58:53 UTC on 26 December with the epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.

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2006 Yogyakarta earthquake

The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake (also known as the Bantul earthquake) occurred at with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma_Drum_Mountain

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