Ocean Sky Chan Monastery

Completed in 2001, the monastery offers free Zen meditation classes and other services, under the direction of Chung Tai and Grand Master Wei Chueh.

The monastery follows traditional Chinese Ch'an, emphasizing on teachings based on sudden enlightenment and gradual cultivation.

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 monastery'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.