Intensive Chinese Language Classes were Being Organised
One of the four major discussions during last year's <<Conference on Dissemination of the Dharma>> (Rgyal Stan dar spell bro gleng) was actually how to provide facilities of language classes for the monastic members. Both based on that forth gone discussions, and also remaining within the framework of the objectives laid down by the Institute, it was decided that three levels of Chinese classes were to be organised for the monastic members living in Taiwan to improve their Chinese language skills.
The main reason for organising such classes was that it was obviously the key prerequisite for whoever living in this country (Taiwan) to know their language (Taiwanese or Chinese) for both the teaching purposes and the convenience of one's daily life. Moreover, it remains the fact that, for our Khenpos, Geshes and Lopons without the necessary knowledge of the language of the hosting country, their profound and vast learning of tenets and philosophy could not benefit the students as they intended to. The language barrier also prevents our learned scholars to showcase their deepest scholastic learning and delivering the insightful teachings of the Buddha to the respective students. Since this has become an obvious problem, we do recognize the importance of putting effort on providing a language learning facility for our monastic members.