Pure Lands Omniverse

The Great Game of shared practice and creation

The Pure Lands Omniverse is a Great Game in which digital Worlds, real projects, practice, education, research, art, communities and physical Nodes are connected into one evolving environment. Its purpose is not to replace real life with a virtual one. On the contrary, a digital Quest should lead into real action: practice, helping living beings, learning, research, creating a useful object, a garden, a workshop, a program, a work of art or another tangible result.

The Omniverse is rooted in the Buddha’s Teaching and uses the principle of skillful means: forms may change when they help a person reduce suffering, develop wisdom and compassion, and bring benefit to others.

Where the project stands today

The First Development Node is operating. It stores and verifies the architecture, keeps the task registry and development history, runs the AI Factory, and is used to assemble and test new elements of the infrastructure.

The Great Game Client is now in internal alpha testing. Its main functions and player journey are already defined; the team is checking build integrity, safety, communication and consistency with the overall Game architecture.

Working Client development plan

The Great Game Client is now in internal alpha testing.

• 26 September 2026 — planned start of the closed pilot;
• 25 October 2026 — target start of open beta testing;
• from 24 November 2026 — target for the official global launch.

This is a working production plan, not a promise that the dates cannot change. Each next stage begins only when the corresponding Client version is ready, its safety has been checked, and the required decision has been made by the Council of Dharmic Wisdom and the Council of Harmony and Protection.

21+ Worlds are documented and are developing at different stages. This is an open family, not a claim that twenty-one finished 3D worlds already exist. Some Worlds exist as detailed concepts and registries; others are receiving their first Quests, Practices and technical prototypes.

The first season, “Beauty of Awakening”, is in production. Creating it is one of the first major shared Quests. The first season itself is a modern commentary on the Lotus Sutra; later seasons become the Living Chronicle.

Collective governance, Karma, distributed digital technologies, virtual and augmented reality, and physical Nodes are developing as separate directions. Their presence in the architecture does not mean that every function is already available to every user.

The Great Game Client

The Great Game Client is intended to become the main way a person enters the Omniverse through their own Path. It is not merely a messenger and not a catalogue of websites.

The main line is:

Buddava → my Path → World → Quest or Practice → real action → reflection → verified trace → next step.

On a phone or computer, a person should be able to see what is available today, continue an existing Path, enter Worlds, practice, learn, communicate, join events and take part in creative Quests.

Large sections may be visible before they are fully ready, but each one must honestly show its real status: available, introductory mode, in development, under research, awaiting a decision, or not yet available.

Closed testing of the first pilot version

The Great Game Client is being prepared for closed testing. The application cannot be downloaded yet: the test build and download page are still being prepared, and the planned start date of the closed pilot is 26 September 2026.

Visitors may already register and leave a convenient contact channel if they would like to receive an invitation when testing opens.

Participant feedback is especially valuable to us. We want not only to find defects and improve functions that already exist, but also to receive new ideas from the community: what should be simplified, added, rethought or made more useful. A strong participant proposal may become a development task and influence the future architecture of the Client.

Buddava and the personal Path

Each being has one Buddava in the Game — a persistent game representation of their Path across the whole Omniverse.

Buddava may connect a chosen name and image, Worlds, completed Quests and Practices, verified knowledge and qualifications, voluntarily disclosed results of service, and privacy settings.

A personal journal, intentions, sensitive practice notes and health information are not public by default. A person decides what to share and who may access it.

21+ Worlds

Lotus Crossroads is conceived as a common entrance to the open family of Worlds. Today 21+ interconnected Worlds are documented, dedicated to different spiritual, cultural, educational, ecological, scientific, technological and creative directions.

The “+” matters: the list is open and evolving. A new World does not become part of the Game simply because it has an attractive name — its sources, meaning, safety and real gameplay experience must be checked.

Quests, Practices and learning

A Quest in the Great Game is a path to action, not merely a “read this text” button. It may lead to meditation, qigong, preparing healthy food, helping a person, translation, research, creating software, a garden, a workshop or another real result.

The Practices and Learning section brings together meditation and Dharma, qigong, health and healing, tea practice, nutrition, martial arts, yoga and mudras, service and Dana, sciences and crafts, creativity, mentoring and a harmonious way of life.

For every practice, its origin, mode of learning, need for a teacher, safety limitations and the status of its claims should be clear. Traditional explanation, research hypothesis and medical claim are not mixed together.

The first Quest, “Architect of Life”, follows a daily path: movement → whole-food plant-based nutrition → tea → sleep and a harmonious daily rhythm → meditation → self-observation → next step. Its subtitle is “Biological rhythms and the architecture of human life.”

Eight ways to participate

The Great Game keeps eight complementary ways of participation.

Play for joy, exploration and meeting. The Game remains a game: it includes wonder, beauty, humor, competition with oneself, discovery of Worlds and communication.

Play by creating real value. Useful work, knowledge, code, design, art, teaching, helping people, production, ecological work and other real contributions may leave a verifiable trace, strengthen reputation and open new roles, access, responsibility and opportunities for shared creation. Payment for invited engineers and other specialists, the purchase of materials, machines and land, rent, servers, AI subscriptions and other necessary expenses belong to the Buddhist economy of the project. The fund of voluntary donations may pay for work actually performed, services received and property acquired under an approved budget, contract or order and after the required decisions by those responsible for the treasury and by the Guardian. A donor does not receive a share, yield, governing power or fixed Karma in return. The procedures for spending, procurement and reporting are developed separately.

Play for learning. Languages, Dharma, philosophy, sciences, art, technologies and crafts become part of Quests and real projects.

Play for holistic health and healing. The Great Game connects long-standing practices of Buddhist and related Asian medical traditions with modern evidence. Players receive paths involving movement, breathing, meditation, sleep and daily rhythm, whole-food plant-based nutrition, tea practice and other methods for supporting and restoring health.

Create. Worlds, scripts, code, devices, architecture, music, gardens, workshops and real projects become part of shared creation.

Rescue and help. Quests lead to assistance for people, animals, communities and ecosystems.

Unite. Different cultures and spiritual traditions receive their own Worlds and can meet through shared beneficial action.

Practice the Path. Attention, ethical discipline, wisdom, compassion and Dharma practice are not decoration; they are one of the central paths of the Game.

Dana, Karma and Buddhist economics

Dana is a voluntary gift: money, work, knowledge, time, art, equipment, computing resources, space, energy or another form of help.

Karma in the Game is non-financial accounting of the karmic trace of intentional actions. Karma tokens are not sold, transferred between players, redeemed for money or assigned a monetary exchange rate.

A donation may become a verified event of support, but the amount donated is not automatically converted into a fixed amount of Karma. Participation in the Great Game does not require a donation.

The architectural sequence is:

Dana → Karma → Reputation → Access → Responsibility → Shared Creation.

Access and responsibility should grow together. Karma does not buy land, a share in the project, the series, the treasury, intellectual property or other real-world assets.

Collective governance and the three Councils

Decentralized collective governance, including DAO-style mechanisms (decentralized autonomous organizations) where appropriate, allows the community to put forward proposals, discuss them, participate in decisions and, where the rules allow it, delegate a vote to a trusted participant.

The precise mechanisms of identity, voting weight, reputation and protection against manipulation are still being developed. A donation does not buy governing power.

Three Councils protect different dimensions of the Omniverse: - Council of Dharmic Wisdom — meaning, consistency with Dharma and architectural foundations; - Council of Harmony and Protection — safety, Ahimsa, sustainability and prevention of harm; - Council of Chronicle Keepers — origin of decisions, the Living Canon, documentary integrity and project memory.

The Councils do not replace collective governance: they protect defined boundaries and memory while collective governance develops separately.

Artificial intelligence, distributed digital technologies and virtual worlds

AI helps reduce the obstacles between a beneficial intention and its realization: searching, translating, learning, designing, checking and creating. It is not a spiritual judge, a source of Karma or the final governing authority.

Distributed ledgers (blockchain), decentralized networks and other Web3 approaches remain real directions of development and research for particular functions. No specific network or technology is an irreplaceable foundation of the whole Omniverse.

Digital attestations may use globally recognized technical formats, including NFT/SBT formats where appropriate. They may confirm origin, certificates, specific game entities or a verified trace. Such an attestation does not by itself create property rights and does not imply mandatory trading.

Virtual, augmented and mixed reality (VR/AR/XR), as well as 3D spaces, are developed after the main Client functions are verified. Participation in the Great Game should remain possible from an ordinary phone or computer.

Physical Nodes, Places of the Path and life-support systems

The Omniverse connects the digital and physical worlds. Real Nodes are not merely servers, buildings or farms considered separately; they are life-support systems for the game community, needed for living, practice, work, learning and creation.

Such a system includes energy without fuel combustion where verified solutions are applicable; drinking water and clean air; organic plant-based food; environmentally responsible and verified modern materials, including nanomaterials where safety has been demonstrated; clothing and housing; game and household devices; workshops and production; a physical distribution network; and a resilient digital network for access to Dharma, knowledge and the Great Game. An experimental technology does not become part of the system merely because it looks promising: it must pass engineering, environmental and safety checks appropriate to its risks.

The first Place of the Path is planned in Pai, Mae Hong Son Province, Northern Thailand, in regional connection with Chiang Mai. This is the priority first site, not an already built city and not the project’s only site.

The global architecture does not depend on one landowner, one plot of land, one country or one partner.

Restaurants, farms, health centers, ecovillages, workshops and other real places may become Nodes or partner locations in this network after review.

Health, Buddhist medicine and evidence

The Omniverse does not bring a random collection of wellness tips into the Game. Recommended practices should have a clear basis, and for the first stage it has already been assembled in two complementary layers.

The first layer is long-standing traditional verification. Medical knowledge is present in the early Buddhist corpus. For more than two and a half millennia, Buddhist communities have preserved, practiced and transmitted medical knowledge between India, China, Tibet, Central, East and Southeast Asia. In the Indian Buddhist environment, Ayurvedic knowledge was one of the important medical layers; early Pali sources show familiarity with classical Ayurveda, nutrition, medicines, hygiene and treatment. In China, this stream interacted with Chinese medicine and monastic practices of cultivating life.

The second layer is modern measurable research. The project’s evidence base already includes individual studies, randomized studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses. For example: - a 2026 multi-center study of Baduanjin with 216 participants found an additional reduction of about 3 mmHg in 24-hour systolic blood pressure; other reviews report benefits for sleep, balance, physical function, metabolic and other outcomes; - a synthesis of 20 randomized studies involving 1,878 people found improvements in cholesterol, blood sugar and body weight on vegetarian dietary patterns among people with cardiovascular risk; - a synthesis of 38 long-term observational datasets involving nearly 1.96 million people associated moderate tea consumption with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality; - modern chronobiology confirms internal biological clocks regulating sleep, food intake, hormones, blood pressure, temperature and metabolism; systematic reviews link sleep regularity with better health outcomes; - modern literature on meditation and mindfulness includes dozens of randomized studies and reports measurable reductions in anxiety and depressive symptoms in the studied groups.

For this reason, the first Quest, “Architect of Life” — movement → whole-food plant-based nutrition → tea → sleep and daily rhythm → meditation → self-observation — is not decorative game design, but a way to bring verified practices into daily life. A harmonious rhythm is recommended as a general principle for every player, while exact sleep timing, exercise load, diet and practice intensity are adapted to age, condition and circumstances. Rejuvenation, in the nearest practical sense, means preserving and restoring functions: sleep, movement, metabolism, physical capacity, cognitive and emotional well-being. The Omniverse also sets a long-term research objective of radically extending healthy life and, at the far horizon, overcoming biological aging up to the goal of biological immortality. This is a serious research objective, not a claim that a clinically verified technology of human immortality already exists.

Progress toward Enlightenment belongs to the Path of Dharma practice itself: the Game creates conditions for learning, ethical discipline, meditation, service and the development of wisdom; it does not replace spiritual practice with a medical metric.

Evidence base for Dharma Center and Great Game practices

The first season is a major Quest; later seasons become the Living Chronicle

The first season has the working title “Beauty of Awakening” and is already in production. It consists of 12 episodes forming one work and one causal chain; the twelve nidanas provide the hidden causal connection between episodes.

The season is a documentary-artistic modern commentary on the Lotus Sutra through the theme of Upaya — skillful means — and the question of when technology helps liberation and when it becomes a new form of samsara.

Its production is one of the first major shared Quests of the Great Game. At the current stage, two public forms of participation are open: Dana to pay for servers and AI subscriptions needed for production, and technical help on genuinely open production tasks.

The season retains a Chinese edition, an international edition and an independent minimum production path so that the work does not depend on a single studio or partner.

Later seasons become the Living Chronicle of the Game itself. Their material will be real participants, new Worlds, the creation of Places of the Path, scientific and engineering searches, successes and mistakes, community development and events that actually happen in the Omniverse.

How to join

The working community is already developing now.

Matrix is the main open working community for collaborative development. Telegram is used for news and quick public messages. Email is used for personal and official correspondence.

Registration on this site remains an active way to enter the community. It will also allow a participant to indicate interest in the closed testing of the first pilot version of the Client and leave a contact channel for an invitation when testing opens. The Russian form remains the primary editorial source; the English version is synchronized with it.

This site and the official Omniverse site

shaolinway.online remains the independent website of the Sukhavati Dharma Center. It preserves materials on the Teaching, practices, the history of traditions, research and the early development of the Omniverse.

A new official Omniverse site is being created separately. After it launches, current Game rules, project status, the Client, registries of Worlds, Quests and Practices, and the way new participants enter should gradually move to the official site and official Game interfaces, while historical Dharma Center pages retain clear status labels and links to current information.

Until then, this page serves as the full current explanation, while the shorter introduction page serves as a navigation entry and status summary.