The year 2019 marks the 10th anniversary for Master Sheng Yen’s passing, the 30th anniversary for Dharma Drum Mountain, the 40th anniversary for Chan Meditation Center, and the 70th anniversary for Humanity Magazine. To remember Master Sheng Yen, DDM organized a series of events surrounding the theme of “Thus I Do.”
From DDM’s Family Day for Protecting the Spiritual Environment, designed to engage and inspire the public to practice Chan in daily life, to the International Conference on Buddhism and Social Science, as well as the Conference of Spiritual Environmentalism on the Regeneration of Agriculture in the Era of Climate Change, which aimed to combine Buddhist teachings and other specialized studies, Dharma Drum Mountain has shown its effort in promoting diversity and infusing new energy in Buddhist practice. The newly opened Yunlai Monastery Branch Center, the new venue of DDM Buddhist Centre Malaysia, and the inauguration of Chan Retreat Center in Croatia, established by Žarko Andričević, one of Master Sheng Yen’s Dharma heirs, also testified the devotion of the Master’s monastic and lay disciples in continuing his vows to advocate DDM’s Threefold Education and Protection of Spiritual Environment endeavors universally throughout the world.
Master Sheng Yen had completed his task of establishing Dharma Drum Mountain, while we are still striving to further its development. For 2020, let us all aspire to contribute to DDM's annual theme of the year—Nurture blessings, and you will be blessed—as an effort to realize a pure land on earth.
2019法鼓山大事記「好願在人間」英文字幕
