We have the following five principles in planning the Bodhi Center

1.      Promote Buddhism: Promote Buddhism based on the ideas of education, culture, and philanthropy.

2.      Develop an environment for learning Buddhism: Develop an environment where the clergy and the layman can live, learn, and develop together.

3.      Develop an environment that can hold different kinds of activities without interference: The buildings (e.g. administration building, audio/video lab) that hold more active activities and the ones (e.g. forest of Zen, hall of Zen) that hold quieter activities are separate from each other. These two different kinds of activities can be held simultaneously without interference.

4.      Protect natural landscape: Allow visitors to return to Mother Nature and develop and balance body and mind accordingly.

5.      Develop as needed: Bodhi Center’s long term development will be done step by step according appropriate needs and available resources.

The Bodhi Center - Master Plan