PREAMBLE

I have been working on Part 2 of “Municipal Majesty” regarding the recent decision by Three Rivers Council to approve additional “Student Residences” for the Great Wisdom Buddhist Institute (GWBI).

There’s more to do on that article. It’s a substantive piece of work. So I decided to publish this as something as a “prelude” to that Part 2 rather than try to incorporate the material.

Both deal with the great chasm that lies between (1) almost everything Buddhist nuns say to Islanders about who they are, why they are here, where their seemingly bottomless pot of money comes from, and most important of all. “WHAT ARE THE LONG-TERM PLANS FOR GWBI?”; and, (2) the truth.

I was working on a section to show how that seemingly-unbridgeable gap between what the nuns have said publicly about their long-term “master” plans, and what their actual plans are, (which I’ll deal with extensively in Part 2) and I wanted to use an example other than “building construction” as well to show how, there is that attempt to mislead and deceive with misinformation, or outright, bold-faced lies with all of the “key” issues that could challenge what they have done, what they are doing, and what they plan to do.

That example I chose was what the Buddhist nuns, GWBI, say about “Bliss and Wisdom” .

It used to be they would claim complete separation and independence from “Bliss and Wisdom”, but that changed.

It used to be that they acknowledged B & W was an international corporate entity based in Taiwan overseeing the affairs of the many subordinate groups and/or incorporated bodies which are associated with that particular stream of Buddhism in Taiwan begun by a monk back in the 1990s referred to as Fu-Chih/Bliss & Wisdom.

Regarding the matter of GWBI’s alleged “master plan” for their location and building in PEI, that no one, not even the Councillors approving their permits, have apparently seen.

Well, I’ve seen them! 

Scary.

And I also know for a fact that both the former Liberal Premier Wade MacLauchlan and the Senior staff of IRAC have seen them as well. Or at least those parts of their Master Plan that they presented in a slide show to both EC and IRAC (when that IRAC Investigation that yielded NO FRUIT was underway) that I was able to get my hands on. 

I’ll share the relevant slides from that presentation regarding construction in my Part 2, which is still a good a few days away from being completed.

I’m making the targeted “audience” for Part 2those Three River residents who are appealing this decision by Three Rivers at IRAC.

[If I was with CBC, the Guardian, or Graphic I’ll be screaming “BREAKING NEWS!!” at this juncture….let’s move on].

It occurred to me that Part 2 is going to be huge already, and because this defining feature” of virtually all important information coming from the nuns, i.e., “THAT IT IS MISLEADING OR FALSE,” is so key to unravelling the enigmas surrounding the Buddhists in PEI that I decided to make that “example”, i.e., GWBI’s false presentation of their relationship with Bliss and Wisdom, an entirely separate episode….this one.

The issue of the nature of that relationship will ultimately determine whether we get a white-washed IRAC investigation or a revelation of the truth.

Although Minister Myers who called for the investigation apparently instructed IRAC to pay special attention to the “direct and indirect” connections – specifically, applying the new provision in the Lands Protection Act dealing with that – but that won’t reveal everything, the “full truth”, without a proper understanding of the origin, nature and purpose of  “Bliss and Wisdom”.

Most important to see is how Bliss & Wisdom Inc. is organized globally, governing a myriad of “children” social groups (organized and often incorporated as NGOs/non-profits), as well as corporate entities involved with economic activity having shareholders.

That’s why it’s critical that those conducting the investigation at IRAC – and all of us Islanders. actually – understand the historical origins and laid-out purpose for Bliss and Wisdom.

As the incorporation document for the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society (GEBIS) – monks in PEI – in B.C. says about GEBIS (from way back when, before they got smart about not being so honest about such things, it seems), Bliss and Wisdom is openly acknowledged as the “parent” organization with that registration in British Columbia.

The relationship between GWBI and Bliss and Wisdom is one of “child to parent,” where the economic means of survival is generated from the social engagement and economic activity of the members of Bliss and Wisdom is extensively to monks and nuns.

Wow! That’s more like a “Preramble” than a preamble, but like Pilate snapped back at the Jewish leaders upset with the wording on the sign that the Roman guards had pinned to the top of the cross above the head of Jesus was they nailed to it, demanding changes: “What I have written, I have written!”

But we’re just getting started, and there’s a lot to cover, so let’s begin in earnest on this episode.

1. GWBI’S FALSE CLAIM ABOUT BLISS AND WISDOM

I will never forget watching a VHS video clip about 25 years ago of my brother interviewing his toddler daughter, who had gotten into the rec room, found a cube of pool-cue caulk – blue – and then proceeded to cover her face with it, inspired to do so by that exploratory imagination found in all toddlers.

The video was akin to a police interrogation. “Do you find my pool-cue chalk?”  NO. “You’re sure?”  YES. “Did you put it on your face?”  NO., etc., with words coming out of a little mouth smeared with…yep…looked like a baby Smurf (with some vitiligo).

Buddhist nuns in PEI never grow out of that developmental stage evidenced by their habitual “telling falsehoods” in the face of overwhelming evidence that they  are doing exactly that: they are attempting to deny, mislead, deceive, and ultimately, present as “truth” what they clearly know is not true at all.

And they are brazen about it, publicizing the lies online as “responses to the community,” obviously trusting that:

(1) the really important people they need to support them in the provincial and municipal governments will do so;

(2) the media will present the lies as “truth” and further confuse people, and; 

(3) the vast majority of Islanders will look no further and believe only what they hear, which will be lies.

I could present damning proof how most of the answers you can find in that special, dedicated section of the GWBI website titled, “Some QA with Buddhist Nuns,” are false and completely misleading.

I’ll limit myself to just one, an example that also shows nicely the “lie-transfer” from the NUNS – MEDIA – PUBLIC regarding the relationship GWBI claims to have with the international corporation Bliss and Wisdom Inc., and what they understand that term to mean.

On that dedicated page on GWBI’s website, in a question under the “Construction Questions” tab, in response to a question about “rumours” that GWBI is controlled by a corporation called, Bliss and Wisdom, we read:

“Bliss and Wisdom is a religious community, not unlike a community of Christians, Jews, or Muslims. It is not a large corporation. Bliss and Wisdom references the Buddhist community founded by the late Venerable Master Jih-Chang. Anyone who acknowledges the late Venerable Master Jih-Chang and Teacher Zhen-Ru as their spiritual teachers is part of the Bliss and Wisdom Buddhist community.”

Kerry Campbell wrote the following in an extensive article he put together on GWBI following the decision by Three Rivers Council meeting on March 10, 2025:

“Both groups also say their land holdings should be counted separately, and not combined as part of the larger Taiwan-based Tibetan Buddhist movement called Bliss and Wisdom, with which both are associated.”

It’s amazing to me how easily the media gobble up as “fact” what the Buddhists in PEI tell them is the truth. 

2. BLISS AND WISDOM  – THE ORIGINS

The claim that Bliss and Wisdom is a “movement” or “category” or “type of religion or spirituality,” is complete nonsense!

Bliss & Wisdom is an identifiable, historical organization, with a beginning that explains it’s purpose, and that purpose remains completely intact and operational to this day.

To claim that this global corporate entity, the very “life-blood” of both the Buddhist monks, nuns and lay followers of the Buddhist teachings of  under Master Zhen Ru (Mary Jin) is “not a legal entity” is truly one of those “pool-cue-chalk-in-the-face” calibre lies I intend to completely unmask!

How easy is it to prove that claim is false?

Ask the Globe and Mail writer who published a “reminder” of an earlier feature investigative article which the Globe had published in 2023 on Bliss and Wisdom in an article published just a few weeks ago about the new IRAC investigation, saying:

This is what that 2023 article looked like:

It caused a lot of consternation and concern with the GWBI nuns – so much so that they challenged the Globe’s published claims about “Bliss and Wisdom’s” connection to GWBI, which they have on their website to this day.

In that “rebuttal” letter they sent to the Globe and Mail they make the claim that Bliss and Wisdom isn’t even a “legal entity”:

“There is no legal entity called “Bliss and Wisdom.” This name references the Buddhist community founded by the late Venerable Master Jih-Chang, including various NPOs and monasteries that follow his teachings.” [Letter to Globe and Mail from GWBI, September 13, 2023].

Back in the early days of monks in PEI, the magazine Maisonneuve put out an in-depth-piece:

“Bliss and Wisdom has never been publicly linked to GEBIS, but it is likely that the large Taiwanese group plays some role in what is happening on PEI. In early interviews, Yang spoke more openly about organizational and financial connections between Bliss and Wisdom and GEBIS, but later backtracked, insisting that the two entities were only linked through the teachings of Chang and Jin. The details of how Bliss and Wisdom interacts with smaller organizations like GEBIS—how donations are doled out, who orders a follower to move to PEI and buy a bunch of land—are unclear. But an organization with GEBIS’ financial clout does not materialize out of thin air.”[See: “When monks come to town,”Mark Mann , June 18, 2013].

The “backtracking” didn’t go so far as the GWBI nuns are going now it seems, with the spokesperson  for the monks who spoke to Mark Mann, Geoffrey Yang, simply saying that Bliss and Wisdom was a different corporate, and therefore “legal entity”.

Mann understood that though, and went on to explore and report on the intrinsic connections and  economic relationship and activity between Bliss & Wisdom and the various Buddhist groups and entities to a limited extent, giving the reader at least some sense of both the scope/size, and “purpose” behind Bliss and Wisdom Inc., although his interest and focus in the article was clearly on the local PEI aspects of this relationship:

“Li Ren Organic Food Company is the eighty-eight-store grocery chain operated by Bliss and Wisdom in Taiwan. To put this into perspective, there are seventy-six Loblaws in Canada, or fifty Atlantic Superstores in the Maritimes—an Taiwan’s population is about two-thirds that of Canada’s. As Yang explained it to me, Bliss and Wisdom beat the drawbacks of organic farming by asking Chang’s followers to shop at its stores.”

3. BLISS AND WISDOM – THE PURPOSE

To really understand the purpose for Bliss and Wisdom, it’s necessary to go back to the beginning of this group of monk, nuns, and laity when the plans and vision and organizational strategies of its founder were put forth, i.e., the  teachings these monks, nuns and laity follow to see why it came into being in the first place.

I published information on this history over 4 years ago, which is still entirely relevant, so I’ll simply reproduce what I called “Chapter 5” in that huge article in my original Monkileaks series, Episode #4

Bliss and Wisdom was founded in 1992 by a Taiwanese Buddhist monk, Master Jih-Chang.  Jih-Chang was a devoted disciple of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and established a community for monks at Fuzhi Meditation Center in Nantou, Taiwan.

Master Jih-Chang’s Fuzhi Center was part of a quite distinct and new expression of Buddhism in Taiwan that saw monks and nuns becoming a lot more socially-engaged.

According to the authors of  “Taiwan’s Socially Engaged Buddhist Groups,” Taiwan’s democratisation brought a revival of interest in Buddhism, as monks and nuns left their cloistered lives and became socially-engaged in various ministries within society:

“A new religious phenomenon in Taiwan is the advent of socially engaged Buddhism, Buddhist groups committed to working for the betterment of society and the welfare of the poor and the ill. The growth of these groups has been concomitant with democratisation, membership increasing very rapidly in the 1990s so that self-identification with Buddhism has now reached 13% of the adult population.”

There were six distinct Buddhist groups leading the growth of this movement in Taiwan, each taking on a distinct combination of social charisms, Fu-chih (later becoming Bliss and Wisdom Corporation Inc.) being one of them:

“Fu-chih was founded in 1987 by Venerable Jih Chang. While having a strong base in Han Buddhism and Confucianism, Jih Chang regarded Tibetan Buddhism to be the most advanced and refined form. He teaches from the Putidao dici guanglun (The Extensive and Orderly Treatise on Perfect Wisdom), a text by the Tibetan reformer Tsong-kha-pa, making Fu-chih the Taiwan group with the strongest emphasis on Tibetan Buddhism.” 

The final section of this overview article compares the different areas of social engagement for each group, such as poverty relief, environmental and cultural work, education, etc.

Four of the six groups were engaged in education; however, it was only the Fu-chih group (Bliss and Wisdom Corporation Inc.) and Chung Tai Chan Szu with an explicitly religious focus and formative approach to education. As the article explains:

The social engagement of the six socially engaged Buddhist groups involves four areas of activity: culture, education, environment and social services. All six groups claim to be socially engaged, but they differ in both the breadth of their activities and the extent to which these activities are confined to a religious as opposed to a general purpose, or tend to serve an in-group as opposed to society in general. The easiest comparison is between education and cultural activities, in which all groups engage, though the boundaries they draw between culture and education are often ambiguous and porous. Both Tzu Chi and Fo Guang Shan offer full-blown secular education in which religion plays a very minor role….In the pre-tertiary education provided by Chung Tai Chan Szu and Fu-chih, the curriculum and the atmosphere of the schools, while conforming to national regulations, is more avowedly religious.

This is significant.

It explains, at least in part, the rapid expansion in numbers with Bliss and Wisdom monks and nuns. This focus on formative education created an incubation process fuelling the objective Master Jih Chang had set with Bliss and Wisdom from the outset to expand and spread throughout the world.

Master Jih Chang’s vision maintained a strong Tibetan association tied to the Dalai Lama. Bliss and Wisdom under Master Zhenru appears to going in a different direction, one much more in lockstep with the Chinese Buddhist tradition and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

You get a good idea of the long-range vision with the initial Bliss and Wisdom model and projects of the founder in the following biography of Jih Chang found on GEBIS-Toronto’s website (separate incorporation, but also connected to GEBIS in PEI):

“Late Venerable Master founded the Bliss and Wisdom Organization (Taiwan) in 1992, and also started a community of Sangha and lay followers who have worked together diligently in spreading the Dharma by using Lamrim as the core teaching, with moral education, health and environmental awareness as additional avenues to help put these teachings into practice. 

Late Master observed that the corrupt world has impacted society badly; the only way to turn it over is to cultivate a kind-hearted community as foundation. Therefore, he founded Bliss and Wisdom Education in 1997 to promote moral education, and implement various cultural and educational activities.”

From the time Jih Chang launched Bliss and Wisdom Education in 1997, nearly 800,000 students at all levels, from elementary and secondary to college, have participated in Bliss and Wisdom’s life education program.

With a curricula fully in sync with the philosophy of Bliss and Wisdom Buddhism, Fu-chich’s focus on educating and forming Taiwanese children, using a Buddhist-based religious curricula they developed, has created an amazingly successful incubation process for their organization. 

It has (according to a monk in Taiwan I’m in communication with) created a situation where there are so many youth wanting to carry on with Bliss and Wisdom as monks and nuns after finishing their school years with them, that Bliss and Wisdom is apparently not able to accept all those wanting to join, due to growth and expansion limitations. This organizational framework and growth model for Bliss and Wisdom in Taiwan is being exactly replicated in PEI.

Moonlight International Academy in PEI is the global extension of Bliss and Wisdom Education Park in Taiwan. I will have more to say about those connections in a subsequent article, as well as the dubious status of Bliss and Wisdom as a Canadian school, on account of the manner in which the Canadian immigration system and Provincial Nomination Programs(PNP) were abused to facilitate the aims and objectives of the Buddhists and the project that was underway to relocate their headquarters to PEI.

Both systems were exploited for purposes other than those for which they were intended, and none of us were aware, or for anyone who was, probably didn’t understand the purpose and significance. But that’s for another article.

Also, and not to get too sidetracked, the Canadian for-profit corporation owned by Buddhists and also registered in PEI (but not incorporated) called Leezen foods is also just a global extension of the parent corporation in Taiwan.

Leezen (a trade name actually) is wholly-owned by Grain Essence Garden Inc., which is another extra-provincial corporation registered in PEI that is a global extension of its parent counterpart in Taiwan, which actually owns the trademark “Leezen”. Again, there are no names at all.. no directors, no officers, no shareholders in the PEI corporate registry:

Leezen stems back to another key initiative of Bliss and Wisdom that Master Jih Chang incorporated into his model of Buddhist Sangha and development – a core money-generating, volunteering-opportunity, mechanism built into the Bliss and Wisdom organizational structure and business plan like a machine producing free money:

“In addition, Late Master established the Tse-Xin Organic Agriculture Development Foundation in 1997 to help care for people’s health and protect the ecological environment. Our goal is to reduce the killing of more sentient life and create clean living space, while also leaving a pure land for future generations.

That the Buddhist Bliss and Wisdom Foundation (which is a charitable organization) works in tandem with another for-profit Buddhist company owned by lay members of Bliss and Wisdom is not unusual…it’s how the model works, as explained in an official Bliss and Wisdom Statement:

“In slightly over a decade, the Bliss and Wisdom monastic community has grown to be of scale; Bliss and Wisdom Foundation of Culture and Education, working together with Bliss and Wisdom Educational Park are actively promoting moral education and Confucian ethics; Tse-Xin Organic Agriculture Foundation cooperating with Leezen Company are strongly advocating the development of organic farming and food safety in Taiwan.” [See: “Bliss and Wisdom Official Statement, Pravarana, 2017“].

Leezen in PEI was described in a CBC article as a “franchise” of Leezen Taiwan, but Grain Essence Garden Inc., which runs Leezen in PEI, is simply Bliss and Wisdom’s global extension of Tse-Xin Organic Agriculture Foundation – commonly referred to by its acronym (TOAF). Remember that name – you’ll be hearing more about it in the not-to-distant future since TOAF apparently has some PEI-land and farming related interests we also haven’t heard anything about that should be discussed.  Oh, and the same three people directing the Leezen franchise in PEI are also the directors and managers of PEI Grain Essence Garden Inc.

I found a comment about Leezen on GEBIS-Toronto’s website that rang true with something I’ve been hearing repeatedly about Buddhists working for GEBIS in PEI – those workers (even doing highly skilled work like driving heavy equipment on construction sites) are not trained workers or certified tradespeople getting paid in an employer-employee relationship, they are Taiwanese Bliss and Wisdom lay followers who come to PEI on student visas to then work full-time as volunteers, receiving no remuneration beyond food and shelter and, of course, whatever other benefits might accrue in the cycle of birth and rebirth from their charity, as they traverse the path to Nirvana.

Volunteering with for-profit corporations is a very dubious practice, one often associated with cults, demanding rigorous oversight and built in checks and balances, but that’s a very touchy subject in this instance, as will be discussed in a later section:

“Leezen organic stores, with ‘Mutual trust and co-operation’ are replacing their traditional business competition, who currently operate the largest Direct organic chains in Taiwan, and are introducing volunteers to create a social enterprise model.

A “social enterprise model” indeed! And a darn lucrative one at that.

When people work for nothing for global corporations bringing in tons of money, and they do so for reasons other than having to earn a living wage, it is always prudent to ask who controls the money, how it gets spent, by whom, for whom…those kind of questions.

The problem, however, is that children don’t demand accountability from their parents, nor do monks and nuns demand accountability from their abbots and abbesses, and especially not from Master Zhenru. 

THEY ARE ALL UNDER THE SAME LEADERSHIP!

Let’s see if we can ‘t shoot an arrow through all the fog and smog of GWBI subterfuge and misleading language and hit a target that reveals clearly that any further discussion about the semantic nuances of “key word usage” is a game designed to obscure the truth: They are all under the same leadership.

I not only have in my possession the current list of Directors for the International Corporate entity, Bliss and Wisdom Inc., but the former lists and meeting minutes where those positions were filled at annual meetings.

This is the OFFICIAL website of Bliss and Wisdom, as evident by their logo, which I’ll put a capture off so you’ll see for yourself, because I want to then show you something interesting about how this page on the official Bliss and Wisdom site has a page dedicated to one of the monasteries for nuns:

Bliss and Wisdom has a “donation” page, and on that page is a “drop down” menu with the online form with all the different “arms” of the Bliss & Wisdom global octopus for which donations – ALL TO BLISS AND WISDOM – can be made, including the organic, education, foundation, and monastic organizational elements of Bliss & Wisdom Inc.

Note: There are many more temples and/or organizations on this list, what you see are the top few only, with my selection of that particular Temple, for a good reason.

You’ll notice that there isn’t a “PEI temple” donation on the list, so it must be independent form Bliss and Wisdom Inc., right?

ABBESS YANG RONGYAN

Wrong.

That’s because the HEAD of the actual monastery here in PEI is a Buddhist Nun also the Abbess/head of a major Bliss & Wisdom temple in Taiwan – the one I highlighted in the drop-down menu.

She was also a director on the major Bliss & Wisdom Global Foundation:

When GWBI purchased land to build it had to provide  “list of directors” to IRAC with their application. Abbess Rong was identified on that list as the Head of GWBI.

Oh, and Abbesss Rong is also a founding director of the HUGE global translation service Ar

6. GWBI CONNECTIONS THROUGH A CALIFORNIA LENS

GWBI has always maintained it is completely separate from GEBIS – the monks. When viewed through a certain lens pointed at California, they look like conjoined-twins!

Venerable Yvonne was adamant in her statements to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources that GWBI is an independent corporate entity not connected with other Buddhist organizations or corporations such as GEBIS. That is not accurate.

There is indeed a Board of Directors for GWBI with officers holding official responsibilities, and the names of those individuals are available.

Charitable organizations must file annual returns with the federal government which are public documents. I reviewed those returns for GWBI for each year filed. Although GWBI was incorporated in 2013, the first annual filing was in 2015.

One of the questions in that Charitable filing asks whether there is any affiliation with any other entity or corporation, and another asks about activity outside Canada.

I thought I’d check to see how honest GWBI was in disclosing that it is entirely a global extension of the motherhouse monastery of Bliss and Wisdom nuns in Taiwan (both monasteries have the same Abbess – Venerable Rong).

With respect to the first question, consider the following response with the most recent available return (2018):

Same answer for the initial return in 2015.

It is important to note the VERY broad definition of “linked in a subordinate way” clarified in the guide with instructions on what information is expected and what the terms mean precisely:

You can’t get broader than saying that all that’s required to have to answer “yes” is that there is a relationship with an international organization that (despite having paperwork showing corporate autonomy within Canada) “… is, at least in some respects, in a subordinate position to a head body.”   In at least some respects? More like “ALL respects!” GWBI is Bliss and Wisdom.

The CRA question about activities outside Canada requires completion of a separate schedule. GWBI  – presumably the finance officer on the Board, Venerable Yvonne – indicated that it wasn’t applicable:

GWBI first came into being as a corporation in Canada in 2013. To my knowledge at least, there was no GWBI prior to that incorporation.

I’ll explore connections with board members (they change from year to year) since 2013 for GWBI in a subsequent article, but for now it’s worth noting that despite being a newly formed corporation in Canada with charitable status, no significant activity nor public presence, no apparent source of revenue, other than donations,  GWBI somehow had a significant cushion from the get-go.

GWBI was incorporated federally in Canada in 2013, but didn’t file until 2015. In that filing it said it wasn’t in any respect subordinate to an international organization and had no activity outside Canada:

Of the three GWBI nuns making the presentation to the Legislative Committee, two of them identified as having come to PEI from California. I wondered if GWBI was an organization that first registered in California and then Canada, so I checked the incorporation document database with the State Department. 

Sure enough, GWBI showed up, but surprisingly, it was incorporated in California AFTER it was incorporated in Canada, not before.

GWBI was incorporated in California on March 12, 2015 with the following address:  3209 PRODUCER WAY POMONA California, which I immediately plugged into Google Maps.

The Google Map picture has a sign out front for GWBI alright; however, the building looked just like the other factories surrounding it in an Industrial Park, huge pharmaceutical manufacturing plants actually, so I wondered whether it was just an “office” or an actual Buddhist establishment.

I thought a close-up of the roof would confirm whether the same factory air conditioners were on that building as the other buildings in the neighbourhood. I jumped from Google Maps to Google Earth to get a clearer “bird’s-eye view” of the neighbourhood and roof on the Buddhist building, and to also see how Google Earth identified the building, which was “Buddhist temple”.

The building at 3209 Producer Way, Pomona, US does indeed appear to have lots of skylight windows on the roof, so it looks like a legitimate Buddhist complex of some kind to me. Was this GWBI’s doing?

I wondered if GWBI had bought and/or renovated that building, so I went hunting in the city archives. Nope, the building is not owned by GWBI, but by another Buddhist organization affiliated with Bliss and Wisdom:

I then checked on the origins of this Buddhist organization and discovered that it was incorporated way back in 1982, long before Bliss and Wisdom Corporation Inc. in Taiwan.

How GWBI – a global extension of Bliss and Wisdom – came to reside in the same building as the Great Enlightenment Lotus Society Inc. (GELS) was my next question, but that was taking me a little further down that particular rabbit hole than I wanted to go, so I dropped that line of inquiry and headed back up to the surface to try another rabbit hole (there’s so many with this Buddhist research).

I checked to see if maybe Bliss and Wisdom was also registered in California.  Lo and behold… they are not only registered, they too are listed as residing at the same address as GELS and GWBI. Bliss and Wisdom was incorporated about two years after GWBI, on March 20, 2017, using the same 3209 Pomona address.

Bliss and Wisdom is still listed as an “Active” charitable organization – registered in California at that same address; however, GWBI’s incorporated status in California has since been dissolved.

Why did GWBI dissolve it’s incorporation in California earlier this year? Why did GWBI register in California in 2015 in the first place – never declaring any activity outside the country in its annual federal returns – then dissolve in 2020?  This situation gives rise to a host of questions, but that’s another rabbit hole I’ll leave for someone else.

But wait! There’s more.

I then wondered: “If GWBI is the global extension of Bliss and Wisdom corporation inc. in PEI, and GEBIS is the global extension of Bliss and Wisdom corporation in PEI, and GWBI are in PEI in 2013 and then for some strange reason register in California in 2015….is there any possibility that GEBIS may also be registered in California? For some strange reason?”  I figured I might as well check.

Go figure! The same address too.

GEBIS registered in California on May 27, 2016, a year after GWBI and almost a year before Bliss and Wisdom. So for at least a year, GWBI, GEBIS and Bliss and Wisdom were all sharing the same building in Pomona, California with the same mailing address.

So let’s recap: 3209 Producer Way, Pomona, California was (1) first the home of GWL up to 2015; then (2) the home of GWL + GWBI as of 2015; then (3) the home of GWL + GWBI + GEBIS as of 2016; then (4) GWL + GWBI + GEBIS + Bliss and Wisdom in 2017; (5) then GWL +  GEBIS + Bliss and Wisdom as of February, 2020.

GEBIS was already incorporated federally in Canada when it registered in California in 2016, and like GWBI, made no mention of its activity in California in subsequent filings with the federal government.

As you can see – GEBIS remains “Active” in California:

With respect to the answer to the question concerning GEBIS not being in a subordinate position to an international organization in the same 2018 GEBIS return, I’m thinking that the wrong key was accidentally hit on the keyboard, and the error wasn’t detected before filing.  Why? Because the minimum amount of due diligence would show that what GEBIS is telling the Canadian government is exactly the opposite of what it told the PEI Government when it registered in 2016:

When GEBIS registered in PEI in 2016, it was explicitly noted on the registration form filed with Government (the last sentence on the above form) that: “It [GEBIS] is an overseas operation of Bliss and Wisdom Monastery Corporation (BWMC) in Taiwan.”

And GWBI is also the overseas operation of Bliss and Wisdom Monastery Corporation (BWMC) in Taiwan – the Abbess of the Taiwan Bliss and Wisdom monastery of nuns is ALSO the Abbess of GWBI in PEI – Venerable Janet is only the Assistant Abbott standing in for Abbess Rong when she is in Taiwan at the Motherhouse – e.g., she apparently spends approximately 6 months of each year in PEI and 6 months in Taiwan [Master Zhenru spends 6 months in PEI as well, however, the other 6 months of her year is apparently spent in Bermuda].

GWBI and GEBIS each present as completely separate corporate entities, cooperating on some things, but completely unrelated to one another – as Venerable Yvonne emphasized to the Committee on Natural Resources and Sustainability members. That needs correcting.

GWBI and GEBIS not only have the same leader – Master Zhenru – they also shared the very same address as Bliss and Wisdom in California, although GWBI has since dissolved its incorporation in California for some reason, but Bliss and Wisdom and GEBIS are still both active in the US but neither report that activity to the federal government.

But here’s the real kicker: both GWBI and GEBIS were apparently incorporated in California by the same person A FULL YEAR APART from one another. 

How could that possibly happen if these two “overseas extensions” of Bliss and Wisdom Corporation Inc. are unrelated?

The following chart that I put together compares the page information submitted to the State of California as an attachment with the registration form first by:’

(1) GWBI in 2015, and

(2) by GEBIS a year later in 2016. 

See any similarities? They’re exactly the same, word for word:

Even the font and punctuation are identical in both filings.

Whoever filed GWBI’s California incorporation in 2015 apparently also filed for GEBIS a year later, obviously using the same computer and software program, and  the same lined paper.

As it turns out, two of the three “directors” of GWBI in PEI (Sabrina and Joanna) are ALSO directors of GWBI in California!!

This article is already way-too long, but take a quick look at the directors for Bliss & Wisdom Monastery Foundation back in Taiwan to get a sense of how extensive the “overlap” at the top internationally is with Bliss and Wisdom when it comes to directing/controlling the “subsidiaries” – the RED typing shows the “connections” with PEI with these powerful individuals at the most Senior level of Bliss and Wisd0m Inc.:

SUMMARY

In announcing the new investigation, Myers said this: “What it comes down to — and this is the concern that you will hear around the area that we’re standing [in] here now, in Three Rivers — is the link[s], and who is connected to who, and are all the connections together one entity and are they over their land holdings? I think that’s what this investigation is going to find out.”

— HON. STEVEN MYERS

Are all the connections together one entity?

That, indeed, is the question. 

Understanding the truth is to grasp the essential “nature” of this group of nuns, monks and lay Buddhist members following a particular form of Buddhism that focuses on “social engagement”.

That engagement is both (1) through the works and activities of members; (2) through various economic and educational organizations, all of which falls under the SPIRITUAL direction of Master Zhen Ru, and the decision-making of corporate executives, often sitting on multiple corporate entities under the “economic/education” (i.e., non-monastery) auspices of Bliss and Wisdom Inc.

There is a simple “test” as to whether any land acquired by a non-Islander from Southeast Asia or Mainland China should be added to “total” re: land holding, and that is simply whether there is any identifiable connection with either a monk, a nun, or one of the many entities registered here that are owned and controlled by Buddhists: is there any identifiable relationship with any nun, monk, or student?

Because the lay members who are Bliss and Wisdom followers who purchase land here are indeed part of the same entity, it is not surprising that they have already engaged in strategies that circumvent the land law by having lay people purchase land, then at some point when the dust settles, that land is “gifted” to the nuns!

I will be publishing a VERY insightful article on this strategy of “gifting” in the not-too-distant future to show in detail how this “gifting” has been used, and used by the most senior people in Bliss & Wisdom, i.e., senior executives of the various Bliss and Wisdom entities.

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