When Tzu Chi publicizes its ambition, it is generally based on Master Yan Zheng's principle that there is nothing in the world, that is, "there is no one in the world I don't love; There is no one in the world I don't trust; There is no one in the world I don't forgive. " I hope this idea can promote the ideal of "humanization of Buddhism". Under this concept, the charitable operation of the foundation does not distinguish between race, religion and country. There are also many volunteers from other religions and races in the group. After years of social relief, Master Yan Zheng discovered the phenomena of "poverty caused by illness" and "poverty and illness depend on each other". 1972 Tzu Chi Clinic for the Poor opens in Hualien. It has opened up the nursing mode of "medical station" and "free clinic" in medical career.
1979 In May, the master put forward the idea of building a Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital at the monthly meeting of Tzu Chi members in Jingsi Jingshe. In order to build the hospital, he applied to the social affairs department of the Taiwanese provincial government for the establishment of the "Taiwan Province Folk Buddhism Tzu Chi Charity Foundation", which was put on file and passed, before he began to raise money for Tzu Chi Hospital.
On the one hand, Master and Tzu Chi members launched a fund-raising campaign in Taiwan Province Province, "Futian invites good people in the world to make Lotus Heart the Tzu Chi world", on the other hand, they also sought land from the government to build hospitals. 198010 June19 Mr. Lin, then Chairman of Taiwan Province Province, visited the Jingshe and asked the master if he had given up the idea of building a hospital. The master took out the account book and told the chairman that if the hospital closed down, the money raised would be refunded. The chairman said: No temple has ever returned donations. He reported it to President Jiang Jingguo, and three days later, in 654381October 22nd, the President visited the Jing She. The mage once again put forward the idea of seeking land for hospital construction to the president, who promised to instruct the Hualien county government to try to help the hospital construction. After three times of land exchange and two times of ground breaking, it was finally officially completed in April 1984. 1986 August 17 officially opened for business.
Tzu Chi Hospital adheres to the concept of "saving people first" and has become a precedent for all hospitals in Taiwan Province Province to avoid paying hospitalization deposit. Later, the Department of Health asked all hospitals in Taiwan Province Province to do the same. In Taiwan Province Province, Tzu Chi Hospital has six branches and a clinic. Malaysia also has dialysis centers and free clinics.
In 2004, Suzhou Tzu Chi Charity Center was established, mainly engaged in a number of social charity undertakings such as assistance for the disabled and low-income households, training for caring volunteers, and hematopoietic cell replacement for patients with blood diseases. Suzhou Tzu Chi Volunteer Park: Suzhou Tzu Chi Volunteer Center Co., Ltd. is located in and near the former No.21 Middle School in Pingjiang District, with a planned area of 37,000 square meters. Now it is planned to build a Tzu Chi humanistic medical service center in the former Suzhou No.21 Middle School. It mainly includes: high-tech health management center, Tzu Chi volunteer center, international conference center, Jingsi Hall, training and education center, medical consultation center and Tzu Chi World Museum. 1In August, 1993, Dr. Li Zhengdao from the Antigen Office of the American Red Cross visited Master Yan Zheng to explain the membership of the International Bone Marrow Database. In June of the same year, the Tzu Chi Foundation Bone Marrow Donation Information Center was established in Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital.
Umbilical cord blood bank was established in 1998. Due to capacity limitation, the collection of +0 1 was stopped in June 2008. In 2002, it was renamed "Tzu Chi Bone Marrow Stem Cell Center". Hometown of Taiwan Province Province
After the opening of Tzu Chi Hospital 1986, due to the lack of resources in the east of Taiwan Province Province and the difficulty in transportation, it was inconvenient for doctors to come to the west, which led to the shortage of medical staff in the early Tzu Chi Hospital. Feeling the shortage of professional medical talents in the east, and improving the enrollment rate of universities in the east, Master Yan Zheng opened Tzu Chi Nursing College on 1989 to train eastern nursing talents, and transformed it into Tzu Chi Technical College on 1999.
1992 On May 3 1 day, Tzu Chi Junior College YMCA was established in Taipei, and Master Yan Zheng declared "kindness, sorrow, wisdom, friendship and enlightenment". Tzu Ching returned to school and established "Tzu Ching Society" in various schools. The mage hopes to become a clean campus and plant good seeds in it.
Tzu Chi Medical College was established in 1993, and was approved to be upgraded to Tzu Chi University in 2000. In 2000, thinking that education should take root at an early age, Tzu Chi established Tzu Chi University and the secondary school attached to Tzu Chi University, and completed a complete education from kindergarten to doctoral class.
In 2006, Tainan Tzu Chi Primary School and Tainan Tzu Chi Middle School were established, becoming the second Tzu Chi primary and secondary schools in Taiwan Province Province. Tzu Chi's last schools in Taiwan Province Province include Tzu Chi University and Tzu Chi Institute of Technology, as well as Tzu Chi secondary and primary schools in Hualien and Tainan. 20 1 1 during the summer vacation, Taiwan's education and sports schools were merged into Tzu Chi University, Tzu Chi Technical College, senior middle schools affiliated to Tzu Chi University (high schools, junior high schools, kindergartens) and Tainan Tzu Chi Senior High School (high schools, junior high schools, primary schools).
Overseas development
There are 19 humanities schools and 5 humanities classes in the United States; Malaysia has a big love children's education center; Chiang Mai Tzu Chi School is located in Thailand. 1990 Wu Zunxian Cultural, Educational and Public Welfare Foundation, a consortium legal person, invited Master Yan Zheng to give a three-day lecture on happy life at Xinmin Commercial Workers in Taichung.
1992 0 1, Tzu Chi volunteers from all over Taiwan Province Province have set up "environmental education stations" in various places. The Tzu Chi Love Station is partly funded by the Tzu Chi Resource Recovery Spillover Fund. Therefore, there is a formula of "garbage turns into gold, gold turns into love, love becomes clean, and cleanliness flows all over the world". Tzu Chi environmental volunteers, regardless of age, class and background, regard the street as a practice Dojo. They are not afraid of dirty and tireless work and bow their heads to make selfless contributions to caring for the global environment. Therefore, Master Yan Zheng honored them as "environmental protection bodhisattvas", "pure bodhisattvas", "bodhisattvas who embrace the earth", "bodhisattvas who care for the earth" or "bodhisattvas who never fade away".
1Thursday, August 23, 992 (the fourth day of the seventh lunar month), the master went out early in the morning and saw a lot of rubbish left in the street after the night market closed. His heart is full of feelings. Originally, the theme was to declare July as "auspicious month and filial month". From time to time, thousands of people applauded warmly from the audience, talking about …, and the congregation who came to listen to the Dharma was silent. Suddenly, the master changed the subject. At this time, sitting in the back row, Miss Yang Shunling, who lives in Fengyuan, felt that she could do it, and immediately began to recycle resources everywhere, promoting "recycling resources and sponsoring Tzu Chi" among her neighbors, and donating the proceeds from recycling resources within one month in the name of "Tzu Chi volunteers". In September of the same year, when Master set foot in the Taichung branch of Tzu Chi again, she publicly praised Miss Yang for implementing environmental protection. Since then, Tzu Chi volunteers have responded to environmental charity. Thus, Tzu Chi's environmental protection began. After 20 years of publicity, it has changed the values of the whole Taiwan Province society, making environmental protection a symbol of elegance and high style, and many people have found new life values in Tzu Chi Environmental Education Station.
In 2008, Ada Thanksgiving Technology was established. Recycling treasure, an environmental volunteer, spun yarn from a special bottle, which can be used to make blankets and clothes for Tzu Chi disaster relief.
In 2009, there were more than 5,000 environmental protection sites in Taiwan Province Province, and more than 69,000 volunteers continued to promote the work of special bottles for recycling treasure. monthly
1 960 65438+1October1New Year's Day Gregorian calendar, the second year after the establishment of the meritorious service society to overcome difficulties, Tzu Chi Radio Monthly was launched. At that time, Tzu Chi Monthly was only a four-page newspaper. With the development of science and technology, Tzu Chi Daolv publishes a classic magazine every two months, and Daolv publishes two issues of Tzu Chi World Wide Web in the form of a series.
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1 980 65438+1October1New Year's Day Gregorian calendar On New Year's Day, Zhongguang Company in Taiwan Province Province, Taiwan Province Province helped to set up Tzu Chi radio programs and broadcast Tzu Chi radio programs.
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1 998 65438+1October1New Year's Day, on the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Tzu Chi radio and television programs were formally established in Zhong Shi, Taiwan Province, and Tzu Chi programs were commissioned by other TV channels to be officially launched, and the headquarters was rented from Zhongshi Building 2. 1999 17 In August, Indonesia's Independence Day was also called Proklamasihari Kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia, and AIDA satellite channel was transformed into AIDA Satellite Broadcasting Agency Co., Ltd., referred to as AIDA Satellite TV for short. On June 5438+ 10/2005, Tzu Chi opened the Tzu Chi Humanities Volunteer Center (located at No.2 Lide Road, Beitou District, Taipei City, Taiwan Province Province), AIDA TV moved into the Tzu Chi Humanities Volunteer Center, and AIDA Satellite Broadcasting Co., Ltd. was transformed into the Tzu Chi Cultural Volunteer Foundation. Later, the Tzu Chi Communication and Cultural Volunteer Foundation was renamed as the Tzu Chi Communication and Volunteer Foundation, with the names Aida No.1 and Aida No.1 respectively.