Exploring Dharma Drum Mountain

A Chan Buddhist organisation whose site teaches meditation step by step. This guide is compiled from the place's own published information; we have not visited, and it is not a review.

Columns in Grand Buddha Hall of Dharma Drum Mountain 20110206
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DDM Headquarter (cropped)
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The place

Dharma Drum Mountain's global website offers a Chan Meditation Roadmap and a series of guides, including Fundamentals of Sitting Meditation, What is Chan?, The Attitude Toward Chan Practice and Our Style of Retreats, plus video series on Chan in daily life.

What it offers

Before you go

  1. Read zazen for beginners and what a retreat is like.
  2. See the Taiwan directory.
  3. Read the guides on dharmadrum.org.

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Questions people ask

Which tradition?

Chan (Zen).

Is there online guidance?

Yes, a meditation roadmap and video series.

Where is it?

New Taipei, Taiwan.