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The Life Portrait of Venerable Master Hsing Yun
Sat, 27 July
|Tathagatha Hall
Ven. Dr Yung Dong has served as the director in Buddhist temples throughout Australia, Thailand, and the United States, and has lectured in Auckland University, Melbourne University, and MIT.
Time & Location
27 July 2024, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Tathagatha Hall, 1034 Underwood Rd, Priestdale QLD 4127, Australia
About the event
Ven. Dr Yung Dong has served as the director in Buddhist temples throughout Australia, Thailand, and the United States, and has lectured in Auckland University, Melbourne University, and MIT.
Who is Venerable Master Hsing Yun ?
Venerable Master Hsing Yun was born in Jiangsu, China in 1927 and entered a monastery near Nanjing at age twelve. He was fully ordained in 1941, and is the 48th patriarch of the Linji school of Chan Buddhism.
He was a Chinese Buddhist monk, author, philanthropist, and the founder of the Fo Guang Shan International Buddhist Order, which is headquartered in Taiwan and has branches throughout Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Ordained at the age of twelve in Jiangsu Province, China, Hsing Yun has spent over eighty years as a Buddhist monk promoting what he calls “Humanistic Buddhism”—Buddhism that meets the needs of people and is integrated into all aspects of daily…