The year of rabbit comes along with happiness and heralds the spring festival. In order to welcome the Spring Festival, Fuguangshan monastery held a peace lantern ceremony from January 22th to February 19th, including a series of magnificent on-site praying activities, such as the giant phoenix main lamp, the double rabbit lamp, and the thousands of lights. Visitors can pray for good luck in the ceremony.

    The Foguangshan Lantern Festival can also be participated through the new version of the online Foguangshan Metaverse (Dharma-Verse) developed by NetDragon Websoft Inc. Users can receive a series of spring festival tasks to light a virtual lamp and worship Buddha, pray for the new year, and explore in metaverse under the guidance of the task system. In this version users’ backpack can be equipped with a lotus lamp, an important offering that symbolizes the wisdom of the Buddha. It can help accumulate merits and virtues, and pray for yourself and your family online.

    For you to experience the metaverse more efficiently, the public can log in through the computer and mobile version anytime and anywhere. At the end of the mission, tourists can receive corresponding rewards and New Year benefits. Users who actively complete the task will have the opportunity to get a solid light or a chance to draw a prize ( iPhone, iPad, airPod) during the Spring Festival.

    In addition, tourists can create their own virtual characters by "pinching their faces and changing their clothes", watch the exhibition of Fuguangshan monastery in real time, and enjoy the wonderful 3D scenery of Fuguangshan monastery at any time. They can not only participate in Buddhist ceremonies such as meditation, praying, and pray to Buddha, but also enter the virtual conference room and chat space to join the communication of the Buddha dharma, talk about the scriptures, and speak freely.

    The realization of the Spring Festival version of Dharma-verse is inseparable from the continuous exploration and practice of NetDragon in the field of Metaverse development. As early as the end of 2017, the company started a scientific and technological exploration journey with Fuguangshan monastery, and jointly developed the Fuguangshan monastery social interaction screen, which creates 3D scenes of the virtual Fuguangshan monastery world on the LCD board. In 2019, Foguang Technology Corridor was set up with the installation of Fuguangshan monastery social interaction board, Foguang 101VR immersive classroom, VR Smart Arrow horse-riding game, VR cat rescue game, Foguang GO and other products.

    The religion department of NetDragon has been developing by applying technologies in the field of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 to Web 3.0. In addition to Buddhism, the cloud temple series platform products developed by the company have been gradually expanded to provide services for Taoist temples, Christian churches, etc. The believers can easily read the information from the religious sites, book activities, conduct online worship and praying, etc. through mobile phone, and keep a deep connection with the religious sites. NetDragon has opened up a new way to inherit and disseminate belief culture, education and art, and is committed to promoting the application of technology in the field.

    In the coming new year, Dharma-verse will continue to improve, offering more innovative and more specific functions such as cloud learning, cloud tourism, personal practice space, and offline immersive AR glasses etc. Everything about the integration of Buddhism and science and technology will be presented one by one in the Dharma-verse. We will wait and see!