Documentary | Tzu Chi

Love Beyond Boundaries

Love Beyond Boundaries tells the stories of Tzu Chi's aid recipients in China and how their lives have been transformed after they crossed paths with Tzu Chi volunteers. The program also features in-depth reports on the aid projects that Tzu Chi carried out in China, such as building houses or schools in impoverished areas or places hit by disasters.

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Care in Action

Tzu Chi is one of the largest charity organizations in Taiwan with volunteers all across the island helping people in need. By sharing these beautiful stories with the audience, Care in Action hopes to inspire more charity groups and kindhearted people to join Tzu Chi's effort in caring for more disadvantaged members of society who may not qualify for social benefits and resources.

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Tzu Chi in Retrospect

Tzu Chi in Retrospect takes the audience to journey back in time along the path that Tzu Chi has taken for more than 50 years since its establishment in 1966. By inviting senior Tzu Chi members to recount heartwarming stories of people and events in Tzu Chi's history, the program allows the audience to not only relive those precious memories, but also gain a better understanding of Tzu Chi's work and the meaning behind it.

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Da Ai Journal

Documenting inspiring stories of people and events around the world, Da Ai Journal brings home the innate beauty and goodness of human nature that many people have lost sight of for the wealth, fame and social status they are busy pursuing in life. Through these stories, the program hopes to remind the audience of the true value and meaning of life and what they can do to benefit others and the world.

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Love Beyond Boundaries

Dreams That Fly High

After coming across Tzu Chi, many children from needy families in Guizhou, China are not only able to receive an education, but also learn to help others.
Stand Up Again

Since a car accident left him paralyzed from the waist down, Yang Jin-lin in Hebei, China had lost hope for life. It was not until he knew about Tzu Chi that he started to have hope for the future.
Against All Odds

With Tzu Chi's tuition aid and the volunteers' continued love, Tang Fuwu, who suffered from severe burns at the age of 12, has gradually opened his heart and is now a promising young man specializing in artificial intelligence.
The Gift of Life

Thanks to the collaboration between hospitals, the China Marrow Donor Program and Tzu Chi's bone marrow registry, patients requiring bone marrow transplants in China are given the hope to survive.
Tzu Chi in China

Ever since Tzu Chi set foot in China in 1991, it has improved the lives of numerous people through its missions of charity, education, medicine and culture.
A Brighter Future Ahead

With the support of Tzu Chi's tuition aid, two girls from Jiangsu Province could continue to pursue their studies and have a brighter future ahead.
A Decade of Selfless Dedication

Since crossing paths with Tzu Chi ten years ago, these grannies from Dazhou, Sichuan Province have fully devoted to volunteer services to help people in need.
Here for You

Thanks to Tzu Chi's tuition aid, Wan Lianghong from a poor family in Jiangxi Province, China has graduated from college and is now an engineer.
I Want to Fly

Diagnosed with ALS before the age of 20, Lin Zongxiong has been working to help others like him by translating medical articles from English to Chinese.
A Man of Great Wealth

To Grandpa Ma, no matter how much money one has, if one is spiritually poor, then one cannot be said to be wealthy.
Tuanzhi's Beautiful Life

Born with her lower legs bent forwards, Chen Tuanzhi has never thought that one day she'd stand up tall and even get married.
Paying Love Forward

Supported by Tzu Chi volunteers since five, Chunzhi from a remote village in Guizhou Province has grown up and is now a college student.
Awaiting Your Return

Having lost their two daughters to an air crash, an elderly couple eventually found a way to recover from their grief.

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Care in Action

An Entrepreneur's Effort to Promote Vegetarianism

To encourage his factory workers to go vegetarian, Lin Kun-wang provides them with free vegetarian meals every day. What obstacles has he encountered? How has he tackled them and persisted in his effort to promote vegetarianism?

A Foreign Bride's Wish

Zheng Yanhui from China has been supporting her family all by herself since her husband fell ill. She hopes to get a motorcycle license so it's easier to find a job and take her husband to hospital. However, being illiterate, how is she going to take the test and get a license?

A Bone Marrow Donor's Love

Miss Lin, a matched bone marrow donor, is going to get her fourth human growth hormone injection today, and then she is ready to have her bone marrow harvested tomorrow. Why is she willing to go through so much trouble to help others?

Guardians of the Needy

Sixty-five-year-old Ye Mei-yu suffers from cervical cancer and lung cancer. Due to diabetics, her husband is undergoing dialysis treatment. Tzu Chi volunteers visit them once a month, and today the volunteers have one more task to do — repair the front door of their house.

Dedicated to Recycling

Lai Xiu-e lives alone all by herself in Tanzi, central Taiwan. Despite having a stroke before, she now serves as a Tzu Chi recycling volunteer and collects recyclables along the streets from dawn to dusk every day. She even provides her home for other volunteers to come and sort recyclables together.

The Beauty of a Grateful Heart

In Pingdong, southern Taiwan, a brother and sister are both Tzu Chi's tuition aid recipients. Their father has passed away, and their mother left home and never came back. Grateful for Tzu Chi's help, they go to the local Tzu Chi office to volunteer whenever they have free time.

A New Lease of Life

A single mother of two boys, Lu Si-yuan contacted Tzu Chi for help at the lowest point of her life. Since then, Tzu Chi volunteers have been caring for the family of three and giving Lu whatever support she needs. She works three jobs to support her boys and also helps with Tzu Chi's recycling work whenever she can.

A Woman of Resilience

Forty-eight-year-old Yao Ling-hui is a local of Penghu, an archipelago off the west coast of Taiwan. To her, working in windy winter conditions is a familiar experience. After her husband succumbed to cancer, she has to do odd jobs to support the family and take care of her ailing mother-in-law.

Tzu Chi in Retrospect

E12．The Seeds of Tzu Chi

Being the son of the first Tzu Chi volunteers in Taidong, Wang Shou-rong grew up watching his parents helping others all the time. Years later when he moved to another town, he also started Tzu Chi's work and became the first seed of Tzu Chi there.

E11．Bamboo Coin Banks

In Myanmar, more than 1,500 farming households save up rice from every meal to help people worse off than them. How did this practice of the poor helping the poor get started?

E10．Building Houses for the Needy

In 1967, one year after Tzu Chi was founded, Dharma Master Cheng Yen decided to build a house for a poor elderly man who lived all by himself, making it the first permanent house Tzu Chi built for the less fortunate.

E09．Principles of Relief Work

In 1973, Tzu Chi carried out its first major disaster relief for typhoon survivors in Taiwan. What are the main principles of Tzu Chi's relief work? Why does Tzu Chi always provide support directly to people in need?

E08．Year-end Blessings Ceremony

Every year, Tzu Chi will hold Year-end Blessings Ceremonies and invite everyone to see off the past with gratitude and welcome in the new year with sincere piety. What's the origin of this practice?

E07．The Free Clinic

In 1972, Tzu Chi set up a free clinic to provide medical services to the poor twice a week. The clinic remained in service until Tzu Chi opened its first hospital in 1986.

E06．Revisiting Aid Recipients

Revisiting Tzu Chi's aid recipients are crucial for Tzu Chi volunteers to find out how people's lives have improved and what other help they may need.

E05．Winter Aid Distributions

In 1969, Tzu Chi conducted its first winter aid distribution for the needy in Hualien, Taiwan. Over the years, the event has spread across Taiwan and to other parts of the world.

E05．Winter Aid Distributions

In 1969, Tzu Chi conducted its first winter aid distribution for the needy in Hualien, Taiwan. Over the years, the event has spread across Taiwan and to other parts of the world.

E06．Revisiting Aid Recipients

Revisiting Tzu Chi's aid recipients are crucial for Tzu Chi volunteers to find out how people's lives have improved and what other help they may need.

E07．The Free Clinic

In 1972, Tzu Chi set up a free clinic to provide medical services to the poor twice a week. The clinic remained in service until Tzu Chi opened its first hospital in 1986.

E08．Year-end Blessings Ceremony

Every year, Tzu Chi will hold Year-end Blessings Ceremonies and invite everyone to see off the past with gratitude and welcome in the new year with sincere piety. What's the origin of this practice?

Da Ai Journal

Online Platforms that Pass On Love

Through online platforms, more and more used assistive devices, after being repaired and refurbished, can be put to good use to help those in need.

A Community for Seniors Amid COVID-19

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a district in Taipei, Taiwan continues to offer meals and activities for its senior residents as a way to look after them.

Support for Health Care Workers Amid COVID-19

The top management of a hospital in Taipei, Taiwan offers support and encouragement to its medical staff who are facing additional workload and emotional stress during the pandemic.

Crossing Barriers

In 2015, over a million people fleeing from wars and conflicts arrived in Europe, unfolding a refugee crisis in the continent. On their arduous journey, these refugees struggle to overcome all kinds of barriers in search of a promised land of peace and safety.

The Sky in Aceh, Indonesia

In 2004, a massive earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that claimed about 228,000 lives. Over ten years later, how have people in the affected areas rebuilt their homes and lives?

A Gift from the Heart

Erratic climate conditions have brought about more disasters with ever increasing frequency and intensity. Thanks to modern technology, disaster relief efforts have also diversified to tackle different situations.

Sing Along, Tacloban!

To help the people of Tacloban, Philippines recover from Typhoon Haiyan, Tzu Chi volunteers launched a cash-for-work program to clean up the disaster areas and built houses and schools for those affected.

Hello Again, Myanmar!

After Cyclone Nargis caused severe devastation in Myanmar in 2008, Tzu Chi volunteers went to provide relief and give out rice seeds to affected farmers. Even to this day, Tzu Chi is still there.

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