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Singapore Kicks Off Street Fundraiser for Typhoon Haiyan

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...

Charity |

Cultivation in the Face of Impermanence and Illness

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...

People, Miscellaneous |

Good Deeds are no Insurance Against Misfortune

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...

People, Miscellaneous |

A Teenager Enters the Dharma

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...

People, Miscellaneous |

Dharma as Water - in the Lion City

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...

Miscellaneous |

Reviving a Thousand Year Old Teaching

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.”

Miscellaneous |

Readying the Dharma Ship

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 ...

Miscellaneous |

A Mother and Daughter’s Spiritual Path

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 works out her karma.

People, Miscellaneous |

A Child’s Strength Moves an Entire Family

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...

People |

Actualizing Dharma With Vegetarianism and Compassion

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 in the “Water as Dharma” ...

People |

A Chef Forsakes Her Meat Cleavers

A Chef Forsakes Her Meat Cleavers

Wu Hui Li may be a vegetarian herself, but in the past, as a chef, her hands had not only instructed countless numbers of her students, they had also prepared countless varieties of animal flesh and sea creatures for human consumption...

People |

Taiwan Team Cheers On the Singapore “Dharma as Water” Team

Taiwan Team Cheers On the Singapore “Dharma as Water” Team

During the period from 29 November 2013 to 1 December 2013, Chief Director and Choreographer of the “Dharma as Water” stage adaptation, Sister Ci Yue, and her team of eight volunteers made the trip down from Taiwan to Singapore. They helped boost the...

Humanistic Culture |

Tzu Chi Singapore Raises Funds for Philippine Disaster in a Meeting of Hearts

Tzu Chi Singapore Raises Funds for Philippine Disaster in a Meeting of Hearts

When Typhoon Haiyan, a maximum category-five storm, ravaged the Philippines, it left a massive trail of destruction in its wake. The Tzu Chi Foundation (Singapore) started receiving numerous calls from the public, asking if they could make donations to...

Charity |

Dharma With Determination – When Language is No Barrier

Dharma With Determination – When Language is No Barrier

After understanding the law of cause and effect, Lin Hua Zhen decided to face up to her karma with an attitude of calmness and acceptance as challenges unfolded in her life. A language barrier too, was no obstacle in the face of her determination to...

People |

Tzu Chings Promote Vegetarianism

Tzu Chings Promote Vegetarianism

2013 marks the third year of Tzu Ching’s VERO (short for ‘Veggie Hero’) campaign to promote vegetarianism. Following the lead of the “Consume 80% and save the rest” campaign, students donated the remaining 20% into their bamboo coin banks to help...

Education |

Forget Not the Duty of a Son

Forget Not the Duty of a Son

“Is she really my biological mother?” Wang Yong Zheng had asked himself in anguish. As a child, Wang had never been on the receiving end of kind and caring words from his mother; after the passing of his maternal grandmother, mother and son drifted even..

People |

First Collaborative Parent-Child Class Comes to a Happy Conclusion

First Collaborative Parent-Child Class Comes to a Happy Conclusion

Tzu Chi Singapore’s first collaborative effort with the Bukit Batok community, a parent-child educational course, was organized this year. At the conclusion of six months of classes, 64 people from the RC, volunteers, parents and students participated...

Education |

Getting Daddy to be a Good Person – A Daughter’s Loving Reminder

Getting Daddy to be a Good Person – A Daughter’s Loving Reminder

“Yes, daddy is not considered a good man, but he is willing to change,”says Shen You Cheng. His daughter, En Qi, is his“little teacher.” She not only urges him to learn sign language...

People |