Ocean Sky Chan Monastery

Ocean Sky Chan Monastery
Grandmaster Wei Chueh

Ocean Sky Chan Monastery (Chinese: 海天禪寺) is the Manila, Philippine branch of Taiwan's Chung Tai Chan Monastery (中台禪寺). Completed in 2001, this temple offers free Zen meditation classes and other services, under the direction of Chung Tai and Grand Master Wei Chueh.

The temple follows traditional Chinese Ch'an, emphasizing on teachings based on sudden enlightenment and gradual cultivation.

The temple's current Abbess is Ven. Jian Yong (見庸法師).

Location and history

Ocean Sky is located in Little Baguio, Greenhills, in the city of San Juan. The five-story building, built to be spacious, bright and elegant, has a meditation hall and auditorium to accommodate hundreds of people doing Chan meditation, or for listening to Buddhist scripture. Since its inception, it has offered meditation classes in Chinese and English; Buddhist chanting classes, children's summer programs and summer camps, meditation retreats and other activities, hoping to inspire Buddhist virtues in all.

The female monastics all graduated from the Taiwan Institute of Buddhist Studies; their goal is to the spread compassion. The "Four Tenets of Chung Tai" serve as the basis of the temple's teaching method, aiming for purification of the human mind, and the realization of life's true value and meaning.

The Four Tenets of Chung Tai (中台四箴行──敬、慈、和、真):

To Elders be Respectful; To Juniors be Kind; With All Humanity be Harmonious; In all Endeavours be True.

Services

A Buddhist monastery in the Philippines dedicated to the Linji (Rinzai) school of Chan (Zen), it regularly holds classes on Zen and the fundamentals of Buddhism. The temple has regular Dharma services (Sutra recitation, Chan meditation, etc) with English translations. All services and activities conducted in both English and Chinese.

Services include:

  • Medicine Buddha Ceremony
  • Meditation Class, Mandarin Class, Qigong, Buddhist Chanting (Saturdays and Sundays)
  • Grand Offering to the Buddha and Diamond Sutra Recitation, every 1st and 15th of the Lunar month
  • Thousand Buddhas Repentance
  • Various Dharma Ceremonies every month and Buddhist holidays.

All classes and services are free of charge, and vegetarian meals are served.

External links

Tai Chan Monastery official sites] (English) (Chinese)

v · d · eTaiwanese Buddhist Organizations


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