360 Peace and Harmony Exhibition
28.9.2015 to 3.10.2015 – Chinese Culture Promotion | Buddhist Education | Buddhist Art | Ancient Thangkas

Venue: Mall Galleries
The Mall, St. James, London, SW1Y 5BD
Opening Times: Daily from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm (including bank holidays)
Entrance Fee: Free for the Exhibition

“Learn to teach and live to be exemplary”

360 Peace and Harmony Exhibition will give you an amazing show about religious work of art, Thangkas and also a new experience about Educational Foundations. It includes 26 high valued Thangkas, precious paintings and scriptures and also representatives’ on-site teaching during 28/09/2015 to 03/10/2015. 26 high valued Thangkas which belongs to Tang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty will be shown. They were exhibited once in Little Potala Palace which is located north of The Mountain Resort (Royal Palace) and had an unprecedented effect. This is the first time that these high valued Thangkas are taken out of China to be exhibited in the UK. In addition, some precious religious paintings and scriptures will also be shown during this exhibition.

Venerable Master Jing Kong (pronounced & written in the Cantonese dialect as Chin Kung) also known as Hsu Yae Hong prior to his ordination, was born in Jinniu Town, Lujiang County, Anhui Province China, in 1927. He and his father moved to Jianou, Fujian Province where he attended primary school when he was nine

In 1949, Master Jing Kong moved alone to Taiwan and from 1952, he spent thirteen years studying the classics, philosophy, and Buddhism under the guidance of Professor Thome H. Fang, a great philosopher of his time; Zhang Khutukhtu, a Mongolian spiritual leader and an eminent monk of the Tibetian Buddhist tradition; and Mr Li Bingnan, a professor and master of both Buddhism and Confucianism. In 1959, he became a monk at Linji Temple of Yuanshan, Taipei, and was given the Dharma name Jue Chin and an alternative name Jing Kong. Venerable Master has also read extensively the teachings of Confucianism, Taoism, Islam and other religions.

Venerable Master pioneered the advocacy that
• Buddhism should be an education, not a religion
• He study & propagate the Infinite Life Sutra of the Pure Land School
• Self-cultivation must begin with the practise of the teachings from the Guidelines for Being a Good Person (Di Zi Gui), an invaluable education of morality, ethics and causality
• The concept of “many faiths, one humanity”
• Religious unity can bring peace and harmony to ethnic groups, political parties and countries.

Venerable Master Jing Kong is a world leader in interfaith harmony across five continents.
• 1998, Singapore’s shared interests, mutual understanding, respect & collaboration with 9 major religions
• 2001, immigrated to Australia, founded Pure Land Learning College Association in Toowoomba, Queensland
• 2012, with the support of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Master Jing Kong’s setup the Malaysian Academy of Han Studies. Construction complete, end of 2015
• 2013, with the support of the President of Sri Lanka, setup the Nagananda International Buddhist University bringing together all the Buddhist traditions – a world first. Construction complete, end of 2015
• 2015, Following the Inter-faith Meeting 1.6.2015 at Kensington Royal Chambers and the 2.6.2015 meeting at the House of Lords, looking to set up an Educational Foundation in the UK

The main aim is to set up Educational Foundations globally to fulfil the following objectives:
• To promote peace and harmony
• To develop and train qualified teachers to teach and promulgate Buddhist teachings of various sects.
• To facilitate interfaith and multicultural harmony.
• To develop qualified teachers of traditional Chinese culture and Classical Chinese to teach throughout the world in the hope of bringing benefits to mankind