Legacy & Foundation

Alongside his art, Hsu Poyih has devoted decades to humanitarian service. His works are intended to found a charitable foundation that carries this commitment forward through social education.

Mission

“These designs will be used to set up a charity foundation that helps develop social education — maintaining the spirit of Po-Yih Country House: to make good friends all around and to carry on helping society and the world.”

Medicine and relief

In Sri Lanka he lived as a monk, begging for alms and practicing medicine to look after the poor and the sick. On his travels through Africa, Asia and the Americas he treated countless destitute patients without asking anything in return.

He took part in disaster relief during the major floods in Anhui and Jiangsu, the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake in Taiwan, the earthquake in Turkey and the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan — a lifelong commitment to humanitarian service.

1999 — Assisting after the earthquake in Turkey; he received a memorial flag from the local police bureau for his contribution

Areas of commitment

Social education

The foundation is intended to advance social education for the public good, carrying the spirit of Po-Yih Country House into the community.

Knowledge and teaching

Hundreds of lectures and keynote presentations on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and professorships at universities in Beijing, Qingdao and Fuzhou. In 2026 he became an advisor to the AI research team at the CIBCI Research Lab, University of Technology Sydney.

Museum collections

In 2025 his oil painting One Hundred Sons and a Thousand Grandsons entered the collection of the National Art Museum of China.

Exhibition loans

The collection has toured museums and festivals in Asia and Europe, from the Kaohsiung City Museum of History to the Florence Biennale. Institutions wishing to borrow works may submit a loan request.

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Po-Yih Country House

For some 20 to 30 years Master Hsu has engaged in self-cultivation and meditation at Chinghuan College — his country house in a green mountainous forest — cultivating humanity-orientated thinking. Its enduring spirit is to make good friends all around and to carry on helping society and the world.

The vivid butterflies of his “Great Love (Wuji)” jewelry set sail from Poyih Countryhouse, carrying auspicious charm and spreading pure and beautiful blessings to all corners of the world.