Chung Tai Shan

Chung Tai Shan 中台山 is a Taiwan-based Buddhist monastic order founded by the Venerable Master Wei Chueh in 1987. The headquarters monastery itself, ''Chung Tai Chan Monastery 中台禪寺'', completed on September 2001, is one of the largest Buddhist monasteries in Taiwan. Widely admired as an architectural masterpiece because of the mountain monastery's more modern look, the temple is only second to Fo Guang Shan's monastery in physical size and in the number of ordained disciples. The temple is situated in in Central Taiwan.

The temple follows traditional Chinese Ch'an, emphasizing on teachings based on sudden enlightenment and gradual cultivation. Chung Tai Chan Monastery now has established more than 90 meditation centers and branches in Taiwan and abroad, including six branches in the United States: three in Northern California--Buddha Gate Monastery in Lafayette, Chung Tai Zen Center in Sunnyvale and Pure Mind Zen Center in San Francisco, one in Southern California, one in the state of Texas and one in the state of Oklahoma.