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 Chan Master
Sheng Yen
Our primary teacher is Venerable
Sheng-yen, who has taught Buddhism in the West since 1976.
He is widely recognized as one of the foremost contemporary
Buddhist teachers. He spends half of his time in the USA and
the other half in Taiwan. To date (2001 A.D.), he has
led more than 80 intensive meditation retreats in the USA.
Most of these were seven-day retreats, with a forty-nine-day
Millennium Retreat in the year 2000. his footprints have
spread all across the United States, in various provinces in
China, as well as Hong Kong, Singapore, the Phillippines,
Japan, Malaysia, Russia, The United Kingdom, Poland,
Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic, Croatia,
Argentina, Costa Rica, Brazil, etc. In 2000 he was one of
the keynote speakers in the Millennium Religious Summit held
in the United Nation.
He has written more than seventy
books in Chinese and more than a dozen books in English.
Many of his books have been translated into Italian,
Japanese, Portugese, Finnish, German,
French, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Russian, Vietnamese, and
Indonesian, among other languages. in spite of his
accomplishments, Ven. Sheng-yen retains a humble manner,
insisting that he is just an ordinary person living a
monastic life.
To learn more about him and his
books in English, please visit the following pages:
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