About · Kindfulness Symposium 2026

Wisdom, Humanity,
Technologies

From Ancient to Emerging Times

Integrating technological advancements with humanistic inquiry and seeking to align future innovations toward collective well-being and shared human values.

Tsz Shan Monastery
88 Universal Gate Road, Tai Po
5–6 December 2026

Close view of the Guan Yin statue's raised hand holding a smooth pearl, with carved robe folds and a jewelled pendant behind, against deep blue sky.

About the Kindfulness Symposium

The Kindfulness Symposium is a biennial gathering initiated by Tsz Shan Institute to foster meaningful dialogue across disciplines, cultures, and generations, bringing together scholarship, contemplative insight, and lived experience.

The inaugural symposium, held in 2024 under the theme “Cultivating Happiness, Compassion & Resilience,” brought together scholars and practitioners from psychology, mindfulness, well-being, and related fields to explore how these qualities can be understood, cultivated, and brought into everyday life.

Building on this foundation, the Kindfulness Symposium 2026 broadens the conversation to consider the evolving relationship between wisdom, humanity, and technologies, with an even wider constellation of scholars, scientists, contemplative practitioners, and leaders working at the forefront of emerging technologies and innovation.

The site

The monastery from above

Bathed by rustling trees of the Pat Sin Leng mountains, Tsz Shan Monastery offers a sanctuary of tranquility.

Aerial view of Tsz Shan Monastery on a green headland: the white statue at left, tiled halls and a pale courtyard to its right, a road curving up from the village, and the wide water of Tolo Harbour and Plover Cove beyond.

2015: Officially opened to the public
3,000,000+: Visitors and practitioners welcomed since
2019: Buddhist Art Museum opened
140+: Works of transnational Buddhist art

The Guan Yin statue standing in low cloud, a dark tiled roof in the foreground and a mountain ridge dissolving into mist behind.

Symposium venue

Tsz Shan
Monastery

The Kindfulness Symposium will take place at the scenic and serene Tsz Shan Monastery, a significant project of the Li Ka Shing Foundation, renowned as one of Hong Kong's hidden gems. With the great support of Mr. Li Ka Shing, the Monastery was officially opened to the public in 2015 and has since welcomed over three million visitors and practitioners from around the world.

Low sun over a mangrove shore and still water, with a ridge of hills behind and the white statue just visible on the skyline.

Corner of a timber hall against a cloudless sky: dark bracketed eaves and an upturned ridge ornament above an empty balcony rail, and a pale granite plinth below. — Padauk timber above white-grey granite.

Heart-shaped bodhi leaves in the foreground, a long tiled covered walkway behind, and pale water and hills in the distance.

A curving stone balustrade along a shaded path, seen through the trunks of tall trees with dappled sunlight on the ground.

A long, still reflecting pool mirroring the monastery's tiled halls, a pagoda roof and a broad tree, under a clear morning sky.

A low tiled boundary wall running downhill through dense green planting, with small red and pink flowers along its base.

In addition to regular ritual ceremonies, the Monastery also offers mindfulness experiences to visitors such as water offering, sutra copying and forest therapy, providing ways for the general public to cultivate inner tranquility and equanimity.

Subsequently, Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Art Museum was opened in 2019, where visitors can travel through time and space on a journey with over 140 stunning pieces of transnational Buddhist art.

Mindfulness experiences

Water offering
Sutra copying
Forest therapy

A row of large bronze bells hanging above a still, narrow water channel, with a bank of wildflowers behind and the bells reflected below.

Tsz Shan Institute

Established in 2016

Tsz Shan Institute

The research and educational division of Tsz Shan Monastery.

As the research and educational division of Tsz Shan Monastery, the Tsz Shan Institute brings living wisdom traditions into dialogue with science and contemporary knowledge and practice. Guided by a commitment to care, wisdom, scholarship, and transformation, the Institute serves people from all walks of life and professional backgrounds, inspiring them to cultivate loving-kindness and compassion, deepen self-awareness and insight, nurture curiosity and discernment, and engage meaningfully with Buddhist teachings, culture, and heritage. Through a diverse range of educational, research, and experiential initiatives — including evidence-informed practices and empirical studies — the Institute seeks to foster greater happiness, gratitude, and understanding, while inspiring more satisfying and meaningful ways of living and relating.