Every July, on the mountain.
A free summer camp for children and teenagers — a few days away from screens, and closer to nature, to each other, and to a quieter way of being.
Every year through the month of July, Ru-Yi opens its doors to a summer camp for young students. It is completely free, and everyone is welcome. For a handful of days on Fengguidou mountain, children step away from phones and devices and into something slower and more alive.
The days are full. There are classes on the heart and mind — kindness, gratitude, patience, honest character — taught through stories from the Buddhist tradition. There are hands-on workshops: painting and crafts, cooking, music and song, first aid, traditional skills. The children sit in meditation, chant in the mornings, hike the hillsides, and learn to look closely at the natural world around them.
The hope behind it is simple — to give the next generation a taste of another way of living: calmer, kinder, more grounded, and to let them discover, early, that a good life is something you cultivate rather than something you buy or scroll toward.
Below is a year-by-year archive of those summers, from 2018 to today — 234 recordings in all. The classes are taught in Mandarin; we keep them here so friends near and far can see the life of the center. Choose a year to begin.