Aug 8, 2001 | Teachers
Master Yin Shun was the teacher of Master Jen-Chun, the founder of Bodhi Monastery, and thus, though he never held any official position in Bodhi Monastery’s administration, he was in a sense the “spiritual mentor” of the monastery. It is his vision of the integral unity of the Buddha–Dharma and the themes he has highlighted in the unfolding history of Buddhism that grounds our approach to Buddhist theory and practice.
During the course of his long life, which stretched across a full century, Master Yin Shun had come to be recognized as the foremost Chinese scholar–monk of the modern age. The author of close to fifty volumes, he almost single–handedly spearheaded an intellectual Renaissance of Buddhism in Taiwan, enabling Chinese Buddhists in Taiwan to take their place among their scholarly peers from other Buddhist countries. Continue Reading »
Jan 29, 2001 | Lecturers, Teachers
Venerable Bhikkhu Kai Yin, founder and abbot of Santavana Forest Hermitage, Sabah, Malaysia, is a highly recognized master of samatha (tranquility) and vipassana (insight) meditation. With a special interest in the Theravada commentarial literature, the Sutra-Pitaka of Nikāya/Agāma collections, and the Yogacara school of Buddhism, Bhikkhu Kai Yin is well-read and has gained acclaimed expertise in the studies and teaching of Abhidhamma, Visuddhimagga (Path of Purification), Mahaprajnāpāramitā-śāstra, and Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra.
Ordained in 1987 in Ang Hock See Buddhist Temple, Penang, Malaysia, Bhikkhu Kai Yin studied at the Buddhist Institute of Malaysia and then Yuan Kuang Buddhist College in Taiwan. He practiced various meditation methods, extensively and intensively, under the guidance of a number of renowned meditation masters, including Thera Ji Cheng, Thera Xiu Jing, Thera Sheng-yen, Goenka and Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw. He was a lecturer at Yuan Kuang Buddhist College (1995) and…
May 30, 1995 | Lecturers
Ven.DiXuan (諦玄法師)
Venerable Di Hsuan is an ordained Mahayana Buddhist nun who is primarily specialized in Chinese Buddhism, including Buddhist doctrine, scripture, history, and arts. To help people to practice Buddha’s teachings, she is guiding the Bodhi Buddhist Association, a nonprofit organization in the United States dedicated to inspiring people to transform difficulties into the path of awakening. In 1999, she started to participate in the graduate program at the Yuan-Kuang Buddhist Studies Institute, where she learned Sanskrit, Pali, and Tibetan. Additionally, she studied a great diversity of cultures and religions in the Religion Department of National Cheng-Chi University in Taiwan from 2002 to 2006. To continue her study on the mutual interactions between Buddhism and other religions, Venerable Di Hsuan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida now.
May 30, 1995 | Lecturers
Pro. Michael Roehm
Michael Roehm was the facilitator of the Sutta Study Group (now the Washington, DC, Buddhist Studies Group) at the Washington Buddhist Vihara for 17 years. His Buddhist affiliations and activities have focused on both the Theravada and (Korean and Soto/Caodong) Zen traditions. A former monk in Sri Lanka and Korea, where he was a student of Zen Master Kusan Sunim, he was also a founding member of the Washington Buddhist Vihara and Bhavana Society, and a cofounder of the Lotus Lantern International Buddhist Center (Seoul, Korea) and the Buddhist Fellowship of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, VA. He is a lay student in the Mountain and Rivers Order of Zen Mountain Monastery and member of the Board of Directors of Buddhist Global Relief. He is also a facilitator in the Alternatives to Violence Program (AVP) at the Maryland Correctional Institution, Hagerstown. Now retired from American University in Washington, DC, he lives in Williamsport, MD.
