sentences:  After half a year of preaching, the number of lay followers increased, and the space was no longer sufficient to accommodate all of them.Having realized the great potential in the capital of the Philippines, Venerable Yung Guang invited Venerable Tzu Chuang, director of the Overseas Supervisory Council and senior bhikkuni of the Fo Guang Shan order, to come to Manila to inspect a historical building, which was the former USSR Embassy, and renamed it the "Manila Lecture Hall".This constituted a new page in the history of Buddhist preaching in the Philippines.