BLIA is a faith-based organization of monastic and lay Buddhists, and an NGO under the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Work done by BLIA include promoting education and raising gender equality, providing medical services and emergency relief, and supporting environmental sustainability. We emphasis long-term assistance, especially regarding education and basic health services for women and children.
BLIA is headquartered in Hacienda Heights, California, with worldwide branches serving local communities.
Happiness and Peace Venerable Master Hsing Yun Distinguished guests, BLIA members, greetings to you all! It has been twenty years since Buddha’s Light International Association was inaugurated at the Los Angeles Music Center in 1992. As we look back at the past two decades, we see that BLIA members have propagated Humanistic Buddhism across the world, brought light and hope to humanity, served... (more...)
On the morning of December 24, Yung Jing Song, board member of the BLIA Paraguay Chapter whom is also the president of the Chinese Charity Foundation in Paraguay and Venerable Chueh Wen of the Paraguay Temple went to Comedor de la Villa San Francisco de Hernandaria and Capilla the Sagrada Familia de Tres Frontera de Pdte Franco on Christmas eve where two soy milk stations had been set up long before.... (more...)
BLIA Supports Millennium Development Goal 7: Environmental Sustainability Environmental and Spiritual Preservation Buddha’s Light International Association President Master Hsing Yung In a keynote speech given at FoGuangShan Monastery on October 2, 2010 by BLIA President Master Hsing-Yun, he outlines steps taken by the organization in addressing the direct correlation between the organization’s... (more...)
Below is the keynote speech given by Venerable Master Hsing Yun at the 2010 Buddha’s Light International Association General Conference in Taiwan. Venerable Master Hsing Yun gives an impassioned plea for all people to acknowledge the damage humankind has done to Earth, and to start taking steps to heal our planet. He rejects despair and surrender, and conveys a strong message of hope and renewal... (more...)
