Chan Master Sheng Yen

Our organization was founded by the late Venerable Sheng-yen, who taught Buddhism in the West for over thirty years. His footprints have spread all across the United States, in various provinces in China, as well as Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Brazil, and other countries. In 2000, he was one of the keynote speakers in the Millennium Religious Summit held in the United Nations.

He wrote more than seventy books in Chinese and more than a dozen books in English. Many of his books have been translated into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Finnish, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Dutch, Russian, Vietnamese, and Indonesian, among other languages.

To learn more about him and his books in English, please visit the following pages:

 

 
 

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