On the first day of the Dharma Drum Mountain Great Compassion Water and Land Liberation Rite, taking place at the designated site for the University campus, Venerable Guo Dong, Abbot President of Dharma Drum Mountain, led more than a hundred of DDM Sangha monastics, the architecture team members, the faculty and staff, special guests from the Ministry of Education, Taipei County Government, and the Jinshan Township, to perform the sprinkling ritual as the “Dharma Drum Mountain Great Compassion Water and Land Liberation Rite Sprinkling Ceremony and Dharma Drum University Construction Commencement Ceremony” drew to a perfect close. More than 2300 audience from around Taiwan chanted in unison the Great Compassion Mantra, adding to the solemn and magnificent atmosphere of the ceremony, witnessing the historical moment of Dharma Drum Mountain realizing its great aspiration to establish the University promoting holistic education.