Our Founder Master Sheng Yen
“The Dharma is so good, yet so few people know about it and so many people misunderstand it.” It was based on this simple belief that Venerable Master Sheng Yen founded Dharma Drum Mountain. Named as one of the fifty most influential people in Taiwan during the past four hundred years, Venerable Master Sheng Yen called himself “an itinerant monk pressing ahead through the wind and snow,” and has had a life full of miseries, deprivations, tests, and turning points.
What's New
- May 16 – 19, 2013
- Location: Dharma Drum Retreat Center
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2013 Family Chan Camp
- Date: 7/31 ~ 8/4
- Location: Dharma Drum Retreat Center (184 Quannacut Road, Pine Bush, New York , 12566)
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- Apply: Please download the application form and submit it to Chan Meditation Center, along with a check payable to “DDMBA”. Applications are due July 10th.

Sunday Dharma Talk Live Broadcast
Live Broadcast temporarily cancelled!
Upcoming Events
Sunday Open House at CMC
- Every Sunday, Free, Bilingual
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Upcoming Sunday Dharma Talk Schedule
- Every Sunday 11:00am to 12:30pm
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Upcoming Dharma Classes
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Upcoming Meditation and Retreats
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"If you neither attach to nor fear birth and death, but boldly accept their reality, you will become a liberated person in the midst of an ocean of suffering."
Master Sheng Yen