• Holy Master
• Master Sheng Yan, a Buddhist master, educator, Buddhist Dharma Advocate, and a doctor from Japan's Lizheng University, is also the 50th generation successor of the Zen Cao Dong Sect, the 57th generation successor of Linji Sect, and the founder of Taiwan's Fagu Mountain. The idea promoted by the mage is to improve people's quality, build a pure land on earth, complete caring tasks with education, and achieve educational goals with care. He has published nearly 100 works in Asia, the United States and Europe in Chinese, Japanese and English. Among his works, "Faithful Buddhism" has the largest circulation, with more than three million copies. The most translated version is "Faith Legend", with ten kinds. The most serial copies are "Biography of Huanyou" and "Zen Guidance", which are popular with readers.
• He was born in Nantong County (today's Nantong City), Jiangsu Province, China, on December 4 of the lunar calendar in 1930, and later went to Taiwan. He became a monk at the age of 13 and studied in Japan in his youth. In 1975, he received a doctor's degree in literature from Nippon Lizheng University. After returning to Taiwan, the Dharma Master has successively served as a professor of the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, director of the Buddhist Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice president of the American Buddhist Association and president of the Bible Translation Institute, founded the Chinese Buddhist Institute, issued Buddhist journals and Buddhist research yearbooks, and served as thesis guidance for doctoral and graduate students of universities, political universities, cultural universities. He also created a way to practice meditation at home and abroad in Gushan, a humanities and social university, a Sangha University, a Sangha monastery, seven foundations, and four regular publications in Chinese and English in the cultural, educational, and charity systems.
• On the ninth day of the first lunar month in 2009 (February 3), Master Sheng Yan, founder of Fagu Mountain in Taiwan, who had suffered from kidney disease for a long time, passed away at 4 p.m. (Taiwan time), enjoying the life of 80 years old.

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