Elder Master Wuming
Venerable Elder Monk Wuming is a spiritual leader of the exoteric Buddhism, and a formal honorary chairman of the China Buddhist Sangha Council in Taiwan. He personally experienced and witnessed H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III inviting Buddhas to bestow from the space true amrit. He passed away at Haiming Temple on July 19, 2011, at the worldly age of 102. Haiming Temple was undergoing a celebratory Dharma assembly in the morning on the anniversary of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva attaining accomplishment on that day. Then after the Buddhist disciples received the news of the Elder Monk Wuming’s passing in the afternoon, they gathered to chant Buddha’s name and return the merit, to pray for the Elder Monk’s return to save living beings.
Throughout his entire life, Venerable Dharma Master Wuming strictly observed the precepts and cultivated himself in a practical and thorough manner. His fundamental practice was the Avalokiteshvara Dharma gate, which he has penetrated deeply. He had edified countless people and was praised as “the incarnation of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva in Taiwan.” He was acclaimed as the “World King of Monks” in the exoteric Buddhist circles. Venerable Elder Monk Wuming manifested his two-face and two-arm nirmanakaya form when H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III invited the Buddhas to bestow amrit and gave him the empowerment initiation. That revealed that he is a holy monk and the incarnation of a Bodhisattva.
Elder Monk Wuming manifested himself in double faces and two arms
Below is a photograph of Venerable Elder Monk Wuming prostrating to H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III, His Holiness the Buddha performed an amrit empowerment Dharma for him.
The Elder Monk Wuming prostrated himself to Namo Dorje Chang Buddha III
In 1960, Elder Wuming founded Haiming Monastery on Qianxia Mountain, and in 1962, he established Kuan Yin Zen Monastery. After moving from mainland China to Taiwan, he actively engaged in propagating the Dharma, giving Dharma talks in various places, leading Buddha Recitation retreats, and hosting Great Compassion Repentance Dharma Assemblies, among other activities.
In 1963, at the invitation of the Eastern United States Buddhist Association, Elder Wuming traveled to New York to spread the Dharma, becoming the first Chinese monk to visit the U.S. for Dharma propagation. He delivered more than thirty Dharma talks at Harvard University, New York Christian Churches, St. Mary’s Catholic Churches, as well as at various universities and public and private institutions, benefiting over three hundred people. He also established the Sino-American Buddhist Association and Hu Guo Buddhist Temple in Los Angeles. In 1965, he founded Haiming Buddhist Institute* to train young monastics, making significant contributions to the Buddhist community.
Moreover, inspired by the compassionate example of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, Elder Wuming devoted himself to public welfare and charitable causes in an era when social welfare systems were inadequate. In 1972, he founded Xuanzang Compassionate Orphanage, providing shelter for dozens of orphans. In mainland China, he also established the Shanghai Ren’en Clinic, Shanghai Ren’en Congee Distribution Center, and Wuming Loving-kindness Primary School, further strengthening Buddhist exchanges between Taiwan and mainland China.
Elder Wuming lived to the age of 102, having been a monk for 88 years and upholding the full monastic precepts for 82 years. He vowed to let his body be enshrined in a jar so as to leave a complete-body relic for the world to venerate.
Elder Wuming Entered Nirvana
Elder Wuming’s body, in a sitting posture, is enshrined in a jar
