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Welcome to Global Family for Love and Peace
Global Family for Love and Peace was founded in 2002 by Dharma Master Hsin Tao as an organization dedicated to cultivating a world of mutual understanding, compassion, and nonviolence. Dharma Master Hsin Tao believes that by embracing our shared humanity and working together, we can overcome division and conflict to build a future of lasting peace and harmony.
Over the past two decades, Global Family for Love and Peace has formed close ties within the NGO network at the United Nations, launched projects to uphold Dharma Master Hsin Tao’s vision, and engages in diverse global activities including interfaith dialogue, arts, peace building, education, environmental conservation, and spiritual ecology.
Global Family for Love and Peace hosts a variety of innovative projects both locally and globally. Here On Earth is an educational endeavor for aspiring young filmmakers and climate advocates, while Poetry Slam for Peace uses performance art to convey messages of peace and empower individuals through language mastery. Additionally, Chan Space New York provides a sanctuary for relaxation and learning, offering engaging programs for personal growth and development.
Global Family for Love and Peace Events
Did You Know?
Here On Earth started during the dark days of lockdown in the fall of 2020. Longing to feel more hopeful and make connections with friends far away, a group of filmmakers and educators from three different countries organized an online international film class providing media skills with a focus on water and cross-cultural collaboration to teenagers in Taiwan, London and New York City.
Did you know that the first Budist-Muslim dialogue happened March 7 2002.
People from different religions start to have a dialogue about issues such as women in Islam, the concept of "God," and "unlimited authority" in Islam and Buddhism.
Did you know that the Museum of World Religions was founded by Master Hsin Tao, he was left orphaned and impoverished at an early age. Having been taken in by the remnants of ROC military units operating along the border of Yunnan, China, he was brought to Taiwan in 1961. At the age of 15, he was deeply moved by the compassion of Guanyin Bodhisattva (Avalokiteśvara) and resolved to seek the supreme truth and to bring relief to all who suffer.
Did you know that there is A university just for planet Earth The University for Life and Peace is a higher learning institute designated for the wellbeing of Earth and its inhabitants. This institute endeavors to bring awareness to the entity of interdependence - interdependent diversity. To take that belief into practicality, academic programs will aim at sustainability and the restoration of a healthy planet.
Action, Education, & Collaborations
Here on Earth
Based in New York, collaborating with students, educators and artists all over the world, Here On Earth is a creative educational project for young filmmakers and climate leaders.
This is a place to learn, to grow, and to share your voice. We nurture a positive relationship with the environment by focusing on collaboration, connection and creativity.
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Poetry Slam for Peace
We understand the crucial role creative communities play in this expanding reality to which we’ve been introduced. Slam Poets communicate through performance art expressing time and place in unique and powerful ways.
Poetry Slams empower through the mastery of literacy and language – “If you don’t learn to write your own life story, someone else will write it for you”.
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Chan Space New York
Chan Space New York sits in contrast to a fast-paced city life, offering respite and teachings through dynamic and contemporary programs to encourage curiosity, conversation, reflection and enjoyment.
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United Nations Climate Change Conference
The Global Religious Leaders Summit concluded in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi in Dec. 2023. 28 religious leaders from around the world convened to discuss how to leverage the influence of religious communities to address the climate crisis.“
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Museum of World Religions
The Museum of World Religions was founded by Master Hsin Tao. Utilizing the principles of nature to inspire love and peace through teachings of the world’s religious and spiritual traditions.
The Museum’s interactive exhibits and the recreation of real-life experiences allows the visitor to better understand the bewilderment about life and enables them to reaffirm life’s worth. Read more…
University for Life and Peace
This institute endeavors to bring awareness to the entity of interdependence – interdependent diversity. To take that belief into practicality, academic programs will aim at sustainability and the restoration of a healthy planet.
The University for Life and Peace is a higher learning institute designated for the wellbeing of Earth and its inhabitants. Planet Earth is an entity of interconnectedness.
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