2012年7月31日 星期二

Flying Dragon

Flying Dragon on the sky!! (photo at Yuan Dao Guan Yin Temple)

2010年10月1日 星期五

DAO Cafe! A Wonderful Place!


There is a wonderful place in the valley. You can have a cup of coffee - to relax yourself! ....... You can chat with your friends - to sweep daily garbage from your mind..........to make a beautiful dream in your mind!......

** Dao Cafe at Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple in Danshui
http://www.yuandao.org.tw/map.html













2009年7月18日 星期六

Summer Cicada


“Sia! Sia! Sia! Sia...” The cicadas are singing in the summer. There are a lot of big trees around the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple in Tamsui. It’s a good place for summer cicadas to live there. “Sia! Sia! Sia! Sia! ...” The cicadas are reminding you: “It’s summer time!”

When we heard the cicada’s singing, actually he could be only alive no more than 2 weeks. A cicada deposits eggs on a tree and eggs fall down on the ground. Then the cicada egg becomes to the cicada worm living in the earth for a long time. Then he becomes to a chrysalis and finally gets out of the earth to be a cicada in the 6th summer after he was born in the world. But he could only have 2 weeks of life after he comes out to see the blue sky. In 5 or 6 days, the male cicada starts to make a shrill sound by peculiar organs in the underside of the abdomen, acted upon by powerful muscles to vibrate his stretched membranes to attract the female cicada for generating their next generation.

It takes 6 years, or even some kinds of cicadas need more then 10 years of time to live in the earth. It’s a long time of dark life in the earth, but maybe it’s a happy time for him – with peace, harmony, no challenge in the earth but just waiting for an appropriate summer time to come out for watching the wonderful world. In the ancient time, some people like to bury a jade cicada with their dead relative. Suppose they were expecting that one day their relative could be reborn like the cicada.

Although it’s hot in the summer, but it’s really great to have a cup of ice Latte coffee under the canopy at the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple. I like it. You could enjoy having a chat with your friends and hearing the Cicada Symphony around of you.

Dear Cicada, Do not care of how long your living time is, but do care of what good time you’ve ever had. To cherish the moment you’ve ever owned. It’s not only your destiny, but it must be also your living philosophy…. Go! Go! Go! Try all of your best to sing the song as what you want till the end of your life.
(Forwarded from Blogger/The Wonderful World)

2009年5月18日 星期一

Yuan Dao Guan Yin Temple (part 1)

Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple
Website: http://www.yuandao.org.tw/
Address: No. 3, Antznei, Dan-Shuei Jen, Taipei, Taiwan 251, ROC
Map: http://www.yuandao.org.tw/map.html
Phone: +886 2 2626-9242 Fax: +886 2 2626-9233
Visiting hours: Monday ~ Friday 9:30~19:00
Saturday & Sunday 9:30~21:30

【Bodhi Zeal Station(Shuttle)】
The Bodhi Zeal Station is right across the street from the Hung-Shu-Lin MRT Station.
Phone: +886 2 8809 6600


【A Brief History of Construction】
In marking Taiwan into a Buddha’s holy land, Forshang Buddhism World Center and Forshang World Foundation began and completed the construction of Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple in Dan-Shuei between 1997 to 2000. Numerous beings with causation have ever since been delivered and great admiration has been sent by monks and nuns, devotees, coming to visit from countries all over the world, including Japan, Korea, China, Tibet, Nepal, USA, Europe, etc.
Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple is a Tang style building of four-story height with a one-story basement. Designed mainly in wood, the temple displays the natural taste of ancient simplicity in the valley. The main building of the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple is built with SRC structure (the reinforced concrete). In addition to a 178 meter Cantilever retaining wall, a solid foundation for a building of 20 stories or higher is applied to assure the temple’s resistance to big quakes and natural catastrophes.
The space around the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple is set away as an outdoor relaxation area designed with the sleeping Buddha statue, the 33 Guan-Yin stone statues, the monastery, the forest air sidewalk, the Japanese garden, etc. – the landscapes that bring comfort and harmony to people’s body and mind.


【The 1st Floor Worship Hall】

◎ The Widespread Light of Buddha
In the worship hall of the 1st floor, Da Zi Zai Wan Fo is worshiped, along with the 4 chief Bodhisattvas: Kuan-Yin, Wen-Shu, Dee-Tsang, and Pu-Hsien, as well as the 2 great guardian Bodhisattvas: Wei-To and Chieh-Lan, fully possessing the inconceivable empowerment for assistance in wealth, offspring, good fortune, career, or fame. On the right side of the hall, Yuan-Dao Bodhisattva, the 2nd Patriarch of Forshang Buddhism is worshiped.
All the Buddha’s statues are made of pure copper. Da Zi Wan Fo is 429 centimeters in height and 3600 kilograms in weight. The 4 chief Bodhisattvas, each measures 348 centimeters and weights 1200 kilograms. As for the 2 great guardian Bodhisattvas, each one is 154 centimeters in height and 280 kilograms in weight.

◎ The sublimity of the lot
The lot of Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple is miraculously accurate, for which people from all over Taiwan and world have been attracted. The Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple provides the lot interpretation service to give advice to visitor’s queries. In addition, Master Sun-Don Lee of the Forshang Buddhism has specially conducted a “Da Zi Zai Perfect Attainment of Bochi Doctrine” to promptly clear up karma and to bring blessing to all lot drawers for a smoother development and a perfect and auspicious outcome for things ne wishes for.

◎ All Perfect Incense
The unique “All Perfect Incense” of the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple has the incense for worshiping Buddha, love, health, peace, help, parent, children, honor, wealthy and career. Every bundle is empowered by Master Sun-Don Lee of the Forshang Buddhism, possessing the inconceivable energy and effect. Depending on the type of incense, the visitors may offer the incense to the Dragon-Riding Guan-Yin, The Thousand-Hand Thousand-Eye Guan-Yin Bodhisattva, Wen-Shu Bodhisattva, Dee-Tsang Bodhisattva, or Pu-Hsien Bodhisattva respectively for their wishes to be fulfilled.

◎ “The Nine Palaces Square of the Eight Diagrams in the Book of Changes”
the Karma-dispersing area
Displayed on the left side of the worship hall. It is an amazing area that is created by Master Sun-Don Lee of the Forshang Buddhism based on the universal principles of energy changes applied in the eight diagrams of the Book of Change, allowing an individual to personally experience the energy. It develops various energies appropriate to each individual’s different accordance and causation so that the person practicing this doctrine will obtain the instant purification of body and mind.

◎ “The Potential-inspiring Pyramid” the blessing area
“The Potential-inspiring Pyramid” is made in the perfect ration of a Pyramid. The totems of the universe that Master Sun-Don Lee of the Forshang Buddhism drew in four different colors on the pyramid are able to instantly uplift the four positive energies: Wisdom, Fortune, Health and Love. The inspired inner potentials, when united with one’s own positive energy and good causation, will inconceivably realized the blessings within a month.

【The 2nd Floor – The Awesome Holy Relics】
All beings have the Buddha nature. Be it man or animal, all the cremated beings can remain the holy relics. All the holy relics displayed on the 2nd floor were obtained because the “Forshang Deliverance Rice” was spread before the cremation, indicating that the deceased beings have already been delivered to the Pureland. Therefore, not only does the appearance of the holy relics indicate one’s level of achievement in the cultivation process, in a positive sense, it also tells people alive to cherish the causation of understanding the ultimate truth.

【The 4th Floor – The Da Miao Lecture Hall】

Da Mia Lecture Hall is equipped with the global DSL system and 2 big TV screens mounted on ceiling for the Forshang Buddhism World Center, including the headquarters in Taipei, the central Taiwan preaching center, the Southern Taiwan preaching center, and all the branches overseas to attend the class at the same time. It is presently open to students of the Forshang Buddhism for meditation on weekends and may be used by short-termed secluded meditation groups in the future.

Yuan Dao Guan Yin Temple (part 2)


【The Passage of Art】
◎ The Door to the Great Way
On visiting the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple, what first comes into sight are the grand wall cascade and the broad ancient temple gate. The Originality of the design is unique in the world. The mountain gate, embedded with “the Perfect Harmony of All Doctrines” – the Dharma Mark of Forshang Buddhism, measures 7.5 centimeters and weights 15 hundred kilograms. As heavy as iron, the pillars of the “iron wood” from the Island of Borneo are characterized by one hundred year’s duration, worm and rot-resistance.
The cascade wall has wonderful hidden device. During the day, it is a waterfall, while at night during the after hour, steel fences arise to guard the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple with an extremely study structure.
In addition, every door of Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple is created with its own exquisite unique design. Each is embedded with Xiangqi chessman, etc. This is one of the cultural characteristics of Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple for creating a trip of art for visitors.

◎ The Corridor of Art
The Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple specially designs the stairway to be made with red sandal wood and cast iron. It is also arranged into an art gallery. All the paintings displayed in every floor are “totems of the universe” personally drawn by Master Sun-Don Lee.

◎ Totems of The Universe
Totems present the fundamental marks of all phenomena and energies in the universe that Master Sun-Don Lee of the Forshang Buddhism suddenly saw in deep meditation. Simple lines perfectly compose all the energy changes in the universe and the profound interactions of causation. This transformable essence that harmonizes all sounds, lights, and forms, contains the complete energy and effect for all the transformations in all space and time. Ultimately, that is the innate nature.
All the Totems, such as the Potential-Inspiring Pyramid, the piece engraved on Hsiang-Fei wood on the 2nd Floor, paintings in the stairways, the three-dimensional totem of stone mortars on the three virtues square, totems engraved on the stone slates laid on the ground by the Forshang Wonderful Sound Dharma Bell, are the creation of totems of the universe.

【The Landscape】
◎ The Guarding Rock
The Guarding Rock, on which the calligraphy of “the Accordance with Guan-Yin’s Power” by Master Sun-Don Lee of Forshang Buddhism is engraved, is established as a symbol of Forshang doctrine’s greatest pitying vows to protect all beings with causation.

◎ The Thirty Three Guan-Yin Statues and the Four Chief Bodhisattvas The unique thirty three Guan-Yin statues of the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple, along with the four chief Bodhisattvas statues – the Dragon-Riding Guan-Yin, Wen-Shu, Dee-Tsang, and Pu-Hsien, are situated around the temple, under waterfalls, on the slopes, in the Japanese garden, or by the sidewalk, either in standing, sitting, or sleeping positions.
All these statues are sculpted out of Ching-Do Stone(青斗石). Compassionate in Dharma form, delicate in craft, each statue is a piece of art.

◎ Forest Air Sidewalk – The Sleeping Buddha The sidewalk winds through the woods, in which all the trees are preserved for the original atmosphere of a forest. Certain sections of the walk are even made with reinforced glass to add surprising delight to the roam through the forest. At the end of the sidewalk sits a Sleeping Buddha bronze statue, looking stately and cheerful.

【Special Activities
◎ The Blessing Charm – Ping An Fu
Every year staring with Chinese New Year, the blessing Charm of the Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple, empowered by Master Sun-Don Lee of the Forshang Buddhism, will be available on everybody’s request as a way to create a causation. The way to make a request and to be granted one is for anyone to be able to always obtain the “divine sign” in several consecutive castings. Anyone who has the causation to be granted a Blessing Charm will enjoy a favorable and prosperous year in various aspects, such as wealth, career, health and peace, etc. Since the Blessing Charm was presented, people responded with great enthusiasm and hundreds and thousands of people were thus attracted to the temple everyday. As a precious item, only a limited amount will be offered.

◎ The Celebration Party of Year-end
There is a celebration party in every year-end (including Lunar Year). Master Sun-Don Lee of the Forshang Buddhism leads everyone to bless everyone having a happy, healthy, weathy and prosperous upcoming New Year.

2009年5月17日 星期日

Lunar Eve 農曆除夕夜



Blessing for a happy and prosperous new year! May everyone healthy, wealthy and rich rich in the Cow Year of 2009!
Date: Jan. 25, 2009
Place: Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple

Website: http://www.yuandao.org.tw/
Address: No. 3, Antznei, Dan-Shuei Jen, Taipei, Taiwan 251, ROC
Map: http://www.yuandao.org.tw/map.html
Phone: +886 2 2626-9242 Fax: +886 2 2626-9233
Visiting hours: Monday ~ Friday 9:30~19:00
Saturday & Sunday 9:30~21:30















2008 Year-end Celebration(跨年倒數)


The Celebration Party of 2008 Year-end at Yuan Dao Guan Yin Temple
Time/Date: Dec. 31, 2008
Place: Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple

*Good luck!Good luck!Good luck!~ Sucsess! Success! Success!~(Jump!Jump!Jump!~)


*Blessing for a happy, healthy & prosperous upcoming new year of 2009















Place: Yuan-Dao Guan-Yin Temple

Website: http://www.yuandao.org.tw/
Address: No. 3, Antznei, Dan-Shuei Jen, Taipei, Taiwan 251, ROC
Map: http://www.yuandao.org.tw/map.html
Phone: +886 2 2626-9242 Fax: +886 2 2626-9233
Visiting hours: Monday ~ Friday 9:30~19:00
Saturday & Sunday 9:30~21:30