The Woodenfish Program is a month long program for college students interested in Buddhism. You will have the opportunity to study Buddhism while living as a monastic at a Temple in Taiwan. Room and board is provided, you can receive college credit, and a grant is offered to compensate for travel expenses. Learn More!

  

The beat of the woodenfish poises the mind and establishes a tempo so that an assembly of people can chant in unison.

Because fish do not have eyelids their eyes always remain open even when they sleep. Therefore, they symbolize to the Buddhist cultivator ever present wakefullness and awareness.