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MahayanaE — Chinese & Taiwan1990s-present· Daily, ~30 min each

Life Wisdom

Daily Morning Dharma Talks

Master Cheng Yen

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The talk

Master Cheng Yen — the Taiwanese Dharma Master who founded Tzu Chi, the largest humanitarian Buddhist organization on the planet — gives a short dharma talk each morning at the foundation's headquarters in Hualien. Translated and broadcast worldwide via Da Ai Television, these talks form the daily devotional spine for Tzu Chi's roughly ten million volunteers. Cheng Yen's voice — soft, exact, relentlessly oriented toward concrete compassion — is one of the most-listened-to dharma voices on earth.

Why this is foundational

The flagship daily teaching from the most operationally consequential Buddhist humanitarian movement of our era.

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