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The founder<\/h1>\n

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Venerable Master Hsing Yun is a Chinese Buddhist monk, author, philanthropist, and founder of the Fo Guang Shan monastic order, which has branches throughout Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Ordained at the age of twelve in Jiangsu Province, China, Hsing Yun has promoted what he calls \u201cHumanistic Buddhism\u201d for over seventy years \u2014 Buddhism that meets the needs of people and is integrated into all aspects of daily life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Venerable Master Hsing Yun was born in 1927 in Jiangdu, Jiangsu Province, China. Having grown up in a poor household with both parents working, Master Hsing Yun never received formal education and was left in the care of his maternal grandmother who was a devout Buddhist.\u00a0 When the Sino-Japanese War broke out, his father left on a business trip but never returned. Master Hsing Yun accompanied his mother in the search for his missing father and during their travels met a Buddhist monk who invited him to join the Qixia Monastery.\u00a0 After joining the monastery, he became a disciple of the eminent Master Zhi Kai in Qixia Temple, Nanjing, whose ancestral temple was Dajue Temple in Yixing, Jiangsu.\u00a0 In 1947, Master Hsing Yun graduated from Jiaoshan Buddhist College, completing his Buddhist education in the Ch’an and Vinaya, doctrinal, traditions. Later, he became the principal of Baita Elementary School, editor-in-chief of Raging Billows Monthly<\/em>, and abbot of Huazand Temple in Nanjing.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1949, Venerable Master Hsing Yun arrived in Taiwan and began to nurture the burgeoning Buddhist culture on the island. Early in his monastic career; he promoted Buddhism through the written words. He became the dean of the Taiwan Buddhist Seminar as well as the editor-in-chief of Human Life Magazine<\/em>. \u00a0 In 1953, he became the guiding teacher for the Buddhist Chanting Association of Yilan and subsequently established the Buddhist Cultural Service Center in Taipei, in 1957. In 1964, he founded the Shou Shan Temple and Shou Shan Buddhist College in Kaohsiung and in 1967, he founded the Fo Guang Shan (Buddha’s Light Mountain) Buddhist Order.\u00a0 He dedicated his efforts to propagate Humanistic Buddhism, using his four founding principles:<\/span><\/p>\n