The Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society

The Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society was founded by Master Hsin Tao. It encompasses the Wu Sheng Monastery, Sacred Mountain Monastery, and Dharma halls and centers worldwide, as well as affiliated nonprofit organizations, including the Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Foundation, the Ling Jiou Mountain Charity Foundation, the Ling Jiou Mountain Prajna Cultural and Educational Foundation, the Museum of World Religions Development Foundation, the Museum of World Religions, and the Global Family for Love and Peace (GFLP).

Ling Jiou Mountain is regarded as a bodhimanda of Guan Yin. Taking “Compassion & Chan” as its spirit and essence, it aspires to lead sentient beings with karmic affinity through the great compassionate vows of Guan Yin, thereby advancing the bodhisattva path of propagating the Dharma and benefiting beings.

In Chan practice, Ling Jiou Mountain integrates “Guan Yin’s Method of Listening to Sound” as the core contemplative practice of its Peace Meditation. In its Dharma propagation, it upholds Guan Yin’s compassionate and aspirational power through Dharma assemblies, meditation retreats, pilgrimages, and life-care initiatives as skillful means for benefiting beings, thereby fulfilling its mission of benefiting and liberating beings. 

In education, it advocates the unity of the Triyana, affirming that the three vehicles are all teachings of the Buddha, and promotes the Four-stage Training to ensure the preservation and transmission of the Dharma lineage.
In 2001, Ling Jiou Mountain established the Museum of World Religions as a platform for interreligious dialogue and for advancing the ideals of “love Earth, love peace.” Guided by the principles of respect, tolerance, and universal love, it seeks to foster sustainable global peace and the vision of interdependent coexistence among all beings.
Ling Jiou Mountain is currently advancing the “University for Life and Peace” project in Myanmar. This institute will integrate science and technology, the humanities, and a spiritual ecology grounded in interdependent diversity and interconnectedness. Its mission is to address the mounting crises of ecological degradation and resource depletion, and to cultivate in students a spiritual worldview rooted in love and peace—nurturing future generations who will carry forward the mission of “love Earth, love peace” and serve as hope-bearing seeds for the harmony and sustainability of our shared planet.