Architecture Īccording to its owners Dragon Springs is centered on a 75-foot (23 m) tall Buddhist temple built in the style of the Tang dynasty. This led the Deerpark Planning Board to unanimously deny a six-month extension for a special-use permit for Dragon Springs. In 2012, the school became a point of contention with Deerpark officials after discovering its operations because "they were never told of a performing arts college and high school being run there". As of 2012, it operated with 200 students. The high school was first approved by the New York State Education Department for operation in 2007. Academic Yutian Wong referred to the college as "'s own degree-granting institution". Fei Tian College holds institutional accreditation from the New York State Board of Regents. Īccording to the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, the college offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts in "classical Chinese dance and Bachelor's in Music Performance", student facilities include an on-site basketball court and a gym, and 2015 enrollment consisted of 127 students. According to the Times Herald-Record, "the two schools are independent entities but maintain a close relationship".
Both the college and high school initially operated out of Dragon Springs before expanding into Middletown in 2017. Fei Tian College "acts as a feeder for Shen Yun". Two schools operate in or around Falun Gong's Dragon Springs compound: Fei Tian College ( traditional Chinese: 飛天大學 simplified Chinese: 飞天大学 pinyin: Fēitiān Dàxué), a private arts college and a middle-high school, the Fei Tian Academy of Arts ( traditional Chinese: 飛天藝術學校 simplified Chinese: 飛天艺术学校 pinyin: Fēitiān Yìshù Xuéxiào). Fei Tian College and Fei Tian Academy of the Arts The compound has been a point of controversy among former residents, who have stated Li Hongzhi maintains tight control over daily life. Sociologist and author Andrew Junker noted that in 2019, near Dragon Springs, in Middletown, was an office for the Falun Gong media extension The Epoch Times, which published a special local edition.
The surrounding communities have many Falun Gong followers. It sits below the Shawangunk Mountains approximately two hours north of Manhattan. The compound is registered as a church, Dragon Springs Buddhist.ĭragon Springs is primarily in Deerpark, New York, near the hamlet of Cuddebackville, north of Port Jervis, in Orange County. Members of Shen Yun live and rehearse in the compound, which also has an orphanage, schools and temples. Falun Gong founder and leader Li Hongzhi lives near the compound, as do hundreds of Falun Gong adherents. You could easily order and finish your meal in 15 minutes if you are rushing to get somewhere else after.Dragon Springs Temple (龍泉寺), also known as The Mountain, is a 427-acre (1.73 km 2) compound in Deerpark, New York, US that serves as the headquarters of the global Falun Gong religious movement and the Shen Yun performance arts troupe. All in all, a reasonable meal for a slightly higher than usual price and served really fast. Price was $58, which was about $10 more expensive than other nearby places but they did have the much larger piece of pork chop and the location cannot be beat for convenience to catch a minibus afterwards to return home. Taste was quite good but I found it very salty.
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The pork chop was a thin piece but much larger in size than at other cha chaan tengs, not tough and full of inedible fatty parts like some lower end places. The pork chop and sausage was covered in a tomato soup type sauce which went well with the spaghetti. I ordered, within a minute my server returned with the included coffee and probably only a minute or two later the hot dish was brought to my table. I tried one of the all special quick meal dishes - pan fried pork chop and sausage on rice or spaghetti and true to its name, it was incredibly quick. I was there for the afternoon tea specials that many cha chaan tengs have for the relatively quiet period between about 2-6 pm. The menu is extensive and included breakfast, afternoon tea specials, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, baked rice and noodle dishes, fried rice and noodle dishes. This one has a really good location right next to the terminus stop for many minibus routes so it gets a lot of foot traffic and therefore has perhaps higher prices than other nearby cha chaan tengs. I have been trying a number of cha chaan tengs (Hong Kong style cafe serving quick inexpensive Chinese, Asian and Western food) in the Causeway Bay area recently.
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