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|name=Chung Tai Shan
|type=Buddhist Monastic Order
|headquarters=[[Chung Tai Chan Monastery]]
|location=[[Puli, Nantou|Puli]], [[Nantou County]], [[Taiwan]]
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|native_name=中台山
|native_name_lang=zh
|established=1987
|founder=[[Wei Chueh]]
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|website={{url|https://www.ctworld.org.tw/english-96/html/}}
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'''Chung Tai Shan''' ({{zh|t=中台山|poj=Tiong-tai-san|p=Zhōng tái shān}}) is a [[Taiwan]]-based international [[Chan Buddhism|Chan Buddhist]] monastic order founded by [[Wei Chueh]] in 1987. The monastery headquarters, [[Chung Tai Chan Monastery]] (or Chung Tai Chan Buddhist Temple, 中台禪寺), completed in September 2001, is located in [[Puli, Nantou|Puli]], [[Nantou County]], in central Taiwan. It is the tallest and one of the largest [[monastery|monasteries]] in both Taiwan and the world, having a height of {{Convert|136|m|ft|0}}.<ref>{{cite web| title= SkyscraperPage - Chung-Tai Buddhist Temple | url=http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=2945}}</ref> Widely admired as an architectural masterpiece because of the mountain monastery's more modern look, the temple is second only to [[Fo Guang Shan]]'s monastery in physical size and in the number of ordained disciples.
The temple follows traditional Chinese [[Chan Buddhism|Chan]] teaching, emphasizing sudden enlightenment and gradual cultivation.
==Branches==
Chung Tai Chan Monastery has established more than 90 meditation centers and branches in Taiwan and abroad, including branches in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, and Thailand.
===United States===
Nine Branches of Chung Tai Shan are in the [[United States]]
*Chung Tai Zen Center of Sunnyvale, CA [http://www.ctzen.org/sunnyvale/]
*Buddha Gate Monastery in Lafayette in the East Bay, CA [http://www.buddhagate.org/]
*Middle Land Chan Monastery in Pomona, CA [http://www.ctzen.org/middleland/]
*Great Dharma Chan Monastery in Boulder, CO [https://www.greatdharmachanmonastery.org]
*Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston, TX [http://cthouston.org/jen]
*Chung Tai International Retreat Center in Shepherd, TX [http://ctcmusa.org/jen]
*Buddha Mind Monastery in Oklahoma City, OK [http://www.ctbuddhamind.org/]
*Buddha Jewel Monastery in Seattle, WA [https://web.archive.org/web/20100819110435/http://www.ctzen.org/BuddhaJewel/]
*Dharma Jewel Monastery in Atlanta, GA [http://dharmajewel.us/]
===Europe===
*Hua Yi Si (Monastero Hua Yi) in Rome, Italy [http://www.ctworld.org.tw/108/huayisi/index.htm]
===Asia===
*Pudong Chan Monastery in Osaka, Japan [http://www.jpzen.org/pdjp/]
*[[Ocean Sky Chan Monastery]] in the Manila, Philippines [http://www.ctworld.org/108/oceansky/index.htm]
*PuGuang Meditation Center in Hong Kong [http://www.ctworld.org/108/puguang3/index.htm]
*Great Buddha Monastery in Bangkok, Thailand [http://www.ctworld.org/108/GreatBuddha/index.htm]
===Australia===
*Bao Lin Chan Monastery in Melbourne, VIC [https://chungtai.org.au/en/]
==See also==
* [[Buddhism in Taiwan]]
* [[Four Great Mountains (Taiwan)]]
* [[Four Heavenly Kings (Taiwan)]]
* [[Chinese Buddhism]]
* [[Chan Buddhism]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://www.ctworld.org/english-96/html/index.htm Chung Tai Chan Monastery official site]
* [http://ctworld.org.tw/english-96/html/a8branches.htm U.S. & other overseas branches of Chung Tai Chan Monastery official sites]  {{in lang|zh}}
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