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Tzu Chi Foundation Singapore 2014 New Year distribution “Celebrating the Horse Year with a heart full of blessings”
On the first day of 2014, Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) held a New Year Distribution event, inviting 244 beneficiaries and their family members to gather at Jing Si Hall and together, look forward to a peaceful and beautiful year. Having...
Tzu Chi Teenagers Develop Teamwork Over Nature Hike
On December 28 and 29, 2013, Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) held a two-day camp for participants of the Tzu Chi teenagers’ class at the conclusion of the year-long course. On the first day of the camp, the teenagers went on...
Singapore Kicks Off Street Fundraiser for Typhoon Haiyan
At the conclusion of the “Dharma as Water” stage adaptation on 15 December 2013, Singapore volunteers tirelessly embarked on yet another undertaking and kicked off the “Typhoon Haiyan Street Fundraiser”as they fanned out across the island to solicit donations from...
Cultivation in the Face of Impermanence and Illness
Husband and wife, Zhu Ming Ren and Lu Chuan Qing, have been involved in Tzu Chi activities for nearly twenty years. Having participated in the “Dharma as Water” stage adaptation, they had the opportunity to learn the teachings and deeply...
Good Deeds are no Insurance Against Misfortune
Long-time Tzu Chi volunteer Khoo Khean Yee has been a distributer of herbs for 28 years. In 2013, he faced one of the biggest challenges in his life. Overnight, he learnt that he had suffered a bad debt of more...
A Teenager Enters the Dharma
After having presented a segment from the "Dharma as Water" stage adaptation entitled“The Four Evil Karmas of Speech” together with his class mates in August 2013, Cai Shun Yu, a student of the Tzu Chi Teenagers Class, realized that the...
Dharma as Water – in the Lion City
This year is the 20th anniversary of the Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) and with the blessings of Master Cheng Yen, volunteers in the Lion City piously observed vegetarian fasts and attended Dharma sharing sessions with great diligence, their efforts culminating...
Reviving a Thousand Year Old Teaching
“Buddhism must be relevant to the times we are living in. While prayer and repentance may be made in a certain manner, the main thing is that our hearts are purified in the process and we correct our past transgressions.”...
Readying the Dharma Ship
The Singapore Indoor Stadium can seat 8,000 people and is Singapore’s largest performance venue. Over the last two years, as the Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) embarked on public presentations of segments of the “Dharma as Water” stage adaptation (a.k.a. sutra...
A Mother and Daughter’s Spiritual Path
Living an ordinary life studded with challenges, Tay Lee Khim may have undergone much trials and tribulations, yet armed with a firm belief in the karmic law of cause and effect, she joyfully accepts what comes her way as she...
A Child’s Strength Moves an Entire Family
Wei Ci Xian may be just a little girl of ten, but she is very passionate about the “Dharma as Water”stage adaptation. Not only did she undertake the role of a sign language facilitator, helping to perfect the movement and...
Actualizing Dharma With Vegetarianism and Compassion
Chen Xing Rong, is a typical 44 year old Singaporean. He not only studies the Buddhist Dharma but also assumes the responsibility to support and spread the Dharma. In 2010, he got in touch with Tzu Chi and took part...