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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 Shu (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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ocean Sky Chan Monastery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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