Four Great Mountains (Taiwan)

[7] In 1989, the institutions bought a plot of hilly land in Jinshan, New Taipei City, to build another monastery to expand to, which would become Dharma Drum Mountain.

[13] The organization's main focus is on teaching Buddhism to the public with the goal of improving the world through Buddhist education and scholarship.

[8] Dharma Drum Mountain has affiliated centers and temples in fourteen countries spread across North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania.

[14] Fo Guang Shan monastery was founded in Dashu District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1967 by Buddhist monk Master Hsing Yun.

The organization runs social and medical programs including a free medical clinic with mobile units that serve remote villages, local and international disaster and poverty relief, a children's and seniors' home, wildlife conservation areas, orphanages, and drug rehabilitation programs in prisons.

[21] Fo Guang Shan and Tzu Chi are the only "Four Great Mountains" that offer some form of strictly secular education, as opposed to purely religious.

[20] Fo Guang Shan's approach to Dharma propagation focuses on simplifying Buddhism in order to make it more appealing to the masses.

In mainland China, Fo Guang Shan operates numerous cultural education programs and has built several libraries, publishing several books even through state controlled media.

[24] The Tzu Chi Foundation was founded as a charity organization with Buddhist origins by the Buddhist nun Master Cheng Yen on 14 May 1966 in Hualien, Taiwan, after Cheng Yen saw the humanitarian work of Christian missionaries in Taiwan in the post World War II period.

[28] The publicity from the extensive fundraising to build its first hospital is credited with helping Tzu Chi expand its membership rapidly during this period.

Tzu Chi often builds new homes, schools, hospitals, and places of worship (including churches and mosques for non-Buddhists) for victims following a disaster.

[38] Nuns at Tzu Chi practice spiritual contemplation only in the morning and evening, and spend the rest of the day doing charity or humanitarian work.

Chung Tai Shan emphasizes meditation practice to purify the mind and encourages people to join the monastic life.

[40] Chung Tai Shan started in 1987, after Master Wei Chueh founded the Lin Quan Temple in Taipei County.

[5] Chung Tai Shan is the least socially engaged of the "Four Great Mountains", emphasizing purifying one's own mind and religious study over charity or disaster relief.