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	Hsing Yun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hsing Yun is a successor to Linji (?-866).
		Master Hsing Yun was born on July 22nd, 1927 in Jiangsu province in China in a family under the surname of Li.
		In 1997, Hsing Yun was invited to a Cross-century Religious Dialogue with the late Pope John Paul II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hsing_Yun (2106 words)

	Buddhist View International - 04/13/04 Dalai Lama to tour 3-nation...Master of his faith...; Buddhist View is an ...
		Hsing Yun lives in quarters at the foot of the temple.
		At 78, Hsing Yun is looking to retire from a monastic career that has seen him found 200 Buddhist schools and temples around the world, including Hsi Lai University in Rosemead, recently renamed University of the West.
		Hsing Yun stirred up political controversy in April 1996, when Vice President Al Gore visited the temple during a campaign year and was given a $5,000 gift.
	www.buddhistview.com /site/epage/15620_225.htm (1358 words)

	Title
		Master Hsing Yun, head of Fokuangshan, said the tooth would go on display for a month in Taipei, then be taken to the group's Kaohsiung headquarters for safekeeping before its new home was built.
		Master Hsing Yun, the abbot of Fokuangshan Monastery in the southern county of Kaohsiung, read a short prayer calling on people "to love each other and for society to be ever more harmonious." Also on hand to welcome the supposed relic were parliamentary speaker Liu Sung-pan and other senior government and parliament officials.
		Master Hsing Yun invoked the holy tooth to pray for the souls of 202 people who died on February 16 in Taiwan's worst aviation disaster, when a China Airlines plane crashed into a row of houses next to the airport.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/7288/toothart.htm (3892 words)

	Hsi Fang Temple Online
		Master Hsing Yun uses a popular Chinese Buddhist text, The Sutra of the Eight Realizations of Great Beings, as a framework to present the basic truths of Buddhism in plain and simple language.
		In Lotus in a Stream, Chinese Buddhist Master Hsing Yun offers a Buddhist primer that organizes the major ideas and practices of Buddhism, from the most basic to the most complex, and presents them in concise, accessible, yet highly insightful mini-essays.
		In each of more than thirty brief essays, Master Hsing Yun treats a specific moral or ethical issue, using quotations from the rich treasury of the Buddhist scriptures as a point of departure for his discussion.
	www.hsifang.org /english/books.jsp (619 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| Personality \| Planting lotuses
		Hsing knew resources were extremely short, but he also realised that they could not stand idle.
		In 1995, Hsing was included in the "Who's Who of the Year" list compiled by the American Biographical Institute for outstanding accomplishments in the 20th century.
		This was followed by the Chinese Government authorising Hsing in 2002 to escort a finger of the Buddha from Famen Temple in Xi'an to Taiwan.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=9,1087,0,0,1,0 (1677 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Site of Tranquillity In Cash Controversy
		She said that the grand master and founder of the temple, Hsing Yun, who was listed as a contributor, had met Gore at least once before in Taiwan.
		Critics contend that Hsing Yun is a practiced fund-raiser who has amassed a fortune from wealthy secular Chinese to establish his far-reaching International Buddhist Progress Society, which includes a temple in Las Vegas and a theological university here.
		The critics also acknowledge that Hsing Yun is a politically astute religious leader who has succeeded in convincing his wealthy disciples to give up their worldly accumulations and achieve inner peace and a better afterlife in the Buddhist priesthood.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf101896.htm (800 words)

	About Ven. Master Hsing Yun
		Venerable Master Hsing Yun was born in Chiangxu province, China in 1927.
		Years of dedicated endeavors gave Master Hsing Yun his sense of mission to the revitalization of Buddhism in Taiwan.
		Master Hsing Yun's vow to spread the Dharma as his mission and to benefit all sentient beings took him to North Carolina, U.S.A. Established in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1997, IBPS NC chapter is one of hundreds of Fo Guang Shan branch temples around the world.
	www.blianc.org /English/about_master_E.htm (320 words)

	Buddhist Channel \| News - Asia \| Taiwanese Buddhist Master Hsing Yun meets with pope
		Hsing Yun founded the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Monastery in 1967 in southern Taiwan, which has since then evolved to become the largest Buddhist monastery in Taiwan.
		After his meeting with Benedict XVI, Hsing Yun called on Paul Cardinal Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture of the Holy See, for talks on issues of mutual concern.
		Hsing Yun, heading a group of his followers, is currently on a tour of Fo Guang Shan branches in Europe.
	www.buddhistchannel.tv /index.php?id=1,2864,0,0,1,0 (281 words)

	FGS He hua Amsterdam Zeedijk Tempel
		Venerable Master Hsing Yun, in turn, recounts how the inherited acumen - and much, much more - helped position himself in the eye of calm amidst a cyclonic half-century of winds, frosts, rains and snow that were causes and conditions of one of the most illustrious Buddhist monastics of out time.
		As the young Venerable Master Hsing Yun continued to bask in the wisdom of the Dharma, he gradually awakened to the fact that compassion and generosity, kindly words and supportive actions in the Buddhist doctrine are indeed meant to ensure all shall fare happily ever after.
		Hsing Yun's Hundred Sayings Series, originally published in Chinese, comprises snippets of first person narratives from a legendary past, encounters during perpetual odyssey, and thoughts and sentiments remembered.
	www.ibps.nl /en/hehuaboeken.htm (2066 words)

	Founder: Venerable Master Hsing Yun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Venerable Master Hsing Yun was born in Chiangsu Province, China in 1927 and entered a monastery near Nanjing at age twelve.
		Master Hsing Yun is a prolific writer and has authored over one hundred books in Chinese.
		His biography Handing Down the Light, Hsing Yun's Ch'an Talks, The Lion's Roar, The Hundred Sayings Series, and The Humanistic Buddhism Series are published in Taiwan and are in English.
	www.blia.org /st-louis/master.html (376 words)

	I Slept With 200 Monks in Taiwan
		Venerable Master Hsing Yun left Mainland China for Taiwan in 1949 in order to pursue his goal of developing a humanistic Buddhism that combines all of the eight Mahayana schools.
		Master Hsing Yun has inspired the selfless devotion of over 1,000 ordained disciples as well as the ardent support of many lay devotees to assist him in bringing faith, happiness, hope and convenience to countless others.
		Master Hsing Yun also started the "Buddha's Light International Association" (with 100 chapters around the world and a present membership in excess of one million) in order to contribute to the unification of Buddhists worldwide and promote world peace.
	www.travellady.com /Issues/November03/200Monks.htm (945 words)

	founder
		Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the 48th Patriarch of the Lin-chi (Japanese Rinzai) line of Ch'an, is the founder of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order and its international headquarters in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
		In 1949, as Mainland China was enmeshed in civil war, Venerable Master Hsing Yun left his homeland for Taiwan.
		Hsing Yun Ch'an Talk has been translated into English, Venerable Master Hsing Yun's Lecture Series Korean, Russian, Spanish, and English, Hsing Yun Dharma Words Portuguese and Japanese, Hsing Yun's Hundred Sayings English, German, and Spanish.
	www.hsilai.org /english/e_hsilai/temple_history/history_founder.htm (971 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hsing Yun remitted 10,000 US dollars to provide relief to the flood stricken people.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was informed of the donation and on her request, I undertook to distribute the donation among the most deserved families.
		Hsing Yun Nayake Thera donated 12,000 US dollars to provide relief to the drought affected people of Moneragala.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/07/03/new33.html (279 words)

	The Hsi Lai Temple Fundraiser and Maria Hsia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Master Hsing Yun saw himself as destined to play an important role on the world stage as an unofficial advisor to political leaders both in Taiwan and elsewhere.
		Hsing Yun apparently hoped to continue ``spreading the Dharma,'' i.e., increasing popular receptivity to Buddhist ideas and culture, through political fundraising in U.S. politics.
		As Hsing Yun put it to Committee staff who met with him at his temple in Kiaoshung in June 1997, In [the] Hsi Lai Temple there were some monastic and lay disciples who, influenced by my own conduct, also wanted to help Mr.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/2-17.htm (16619 words)

	Keown, Damien Review of Being Good: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life. By Master Hsing Yun; translated by Tom Graham. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		By Master Hsing Yun; translated by Tom Graham.
		Earlier generations of writers in the Zen tradition have given the impression that moral values are provisional and that there are no secure foundations for ethics in the Buddhist world-view.
		Master Hsing Yu, on the contrary, does not seem to feel that ethics is ultimately undermined by metaphysical doctrines such as emptiness.
	jbe.gold.ac.uk /6/keown992.htm (421 words)

	News 8 Austin \| 24 Hour Local News \| HEADLINES
		The grand master came all the way from China to speak at the Hsiang Yun Temple in West Austin.
		Grand Master Hsing Yun has been a monk for more than 50 years and he's now the spiritual leader to millions of Buddhists throughout the world.
		Hsing Yun is also visiting temples in Dallas and Houston.
	www.news8austin.com /content/headlines?ArID=106857&SecID=2 (189 words)

	Center Profile: Xiang Yun Temple, International Buddhist Progress Society at Austin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The fog and the cedar trees are what inspired Master Hsing Yun to name the temple “Xiang Yun” which means “fragrant clouds.” This term also alludes to clouds that surround the Buddhas and Boddhisattvas when their presences are honored.
		Xiang Yun was built on an 11 acre lot and has about 20,000 square feet of indoor space.
		Fo Guang Shan was founded in 1967 by Venerable Master Hsing Yun and is headquartered in Kaoshiung, Taiwan.
	www.pluralism.org /research/profiles/display.php?profile=72435 (1004 words)

	Fo Guang Shan Temple of Toronto & Buddha's Light International Association of Toronto
		The founder, Venerable Master Hsing Yun, has guided this effort by providing educational opportunities, sponsoring cultural events, engaging in community service, and by extensively writing and teaching about the Buddhist path of wisdom and compassion.
		Venerable Master Hsing Yun emphasizes not needing to "go some place else" to find enlightenment (paradise), for we can realize our true nature in the here and now, within this precious human birth and this world.
		For nearly a half century, Venerable Master Hsing Yun, founder of Fo Guang Shan, has devoted his efforts to transforming this world, through the practice of Humanistic Buddhism.
	www.fgs.ca /english (1216 words)

	Newsletter ...12-24-2002
		Master Hsing Yun endorsed the spirit of "Joy and Harmony" as the theme for the first BLIA General Conference.
		Master Hsing Yun was born in Chiangtu, Chiangsu province, China, in 1927.
		Master Hsing Yun was elected to assume its presidency.
	www.urbandharma.org /udnl/nl122402.html (3794 words)

	Part 2 Investigation of improper activities in 1996 election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This story, which was made into a movie and a television series in Taiwan, outlines Hsing Yun's ''critique and expectations of a religious-leader-turned-Preceptor-of-State'' and suggests that he entertains similar ambitions for himself.
		Hsing Yun, accompanied by three other Temple monastics 153 as well as both Hsia and Huang, met with the Vice President for approximately ten minutes.
		This document was signed by three Temple officials, two of whom were Hsing Yun himself and former Temple Abbess Hsing Kuang Shih, id., p.3--both of whom were subsequently involved in unlawful Temple donation-laundering in support of various political causes.
	www.thelaborers.net /court_cases/part_2_investigation_campaign_activities.htm (18057 words)

	Gore's Scandal (My Title: Gore is Just Another Clinton Mafiosa Who Thinks He's Above the Law) [Free Republic]
		Hsing Yun oversees a nearly half-billion-dollar global Buddhist empire.
		And Hsing Yun, he has elsewhere explained, likes to “spread the dharma” of Buddhist good cheer by giving lots of cash to American politicians.
		Gore was first introduced to Venerable Master Hsing Yun in 1989, during a trip he made to Taiwan in exchange for an explicit promise, from the now-notorious John Huang and Maria Hsia, that they would generate campaign contributions for his 1990 Senate race.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38dbe0cd4693.htm (1840 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Referring to himself as a "pilgrim," Hsing Yun said he hoped the visit would help to boost mutual understanding and cooperation between Buddhists and Catholics.
		Sharing his experience in putting one's mind at ease, Hsing Yun said there were several ways of doing so, but that such fundamental principles as love, tolerance, cherishing what one has and making friends with all would always be important, no matter what approach one took to "finding a home for one's mind."
		Hsing Yun founded the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Monastery in 1967 in southern Taiwan, which has since then evolved to become the largest Buddhist monastery in the country.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/front/archives/2006/06/23/2003315077 (763 words)

	Ken Timmerman for US Senate
		And on January 11, 1989, Gore and the group toured the Kiaoshung Monastery on Taiwan, as the guests of Hsi Lai Temple Venerable Master Hsing Yun.
		According to the Senate investigation of the temple fund-raiser, Hsing Yun helped foot the bill for the Taiwan leg of the trip.
		The event was co-chaired by Eddy Yang, an advisor to Venerable Master Hsing Yun and raised $20,000 for Gore.
	www.kentimmerman.com /news/wtgore063000.htm (825 words)

	FGS He hua Amsterdam Zeedijk Tempel
		Grand Master Hsing Yun has been invited to present the awards for natural energy sources during an official meeting on November 10th 2004, in the Capital of Austria, Vienna.
		During the past 50 years Grand Master Hsing Yun has spread Humanistic Buddhism worldwide and propagated Buddhist culture and education, among other things by writing about them.
		In a spiritual sense this is a great opportunity for anyone to meet Grand Master Hsing Yun.
	www.ibps.nl /en/hehuaarchive.htm (399 words)

	Welcome to the UWest!
		In 1962 Grand Master Hsing Yun established Shou Shan Buddhist College in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and subsequently established 12 other Buddhist colleges for the study of the Buddhist Dharma and the education and formation of Buddhist monks and nuns.
		Through Fo Guang Shan, University of the West is associated with its sister campus (Buddha's Light University) and with an extensive and distinguished network of temple-sponsored research centers where scholars from many countries engage in research projects.
		Grand Master Hsing Yun was the President of University of the Westfrom its inception to the end of 1997.
	www.uwest.edu /bbs/zboard.php?id=about_uwest&no=6 (385 words)

	Buddha Business
		Master Hsing Yun, the society's founder and leader, having propagated Buddhism in Taiwan tirelessly for more than 40 years, was convalescing abroad, and would not be returning to Taiwan in the near future.
		For Taiwan's millions of Buddhists, the article was a stark reminder that a remarkable era in their religion's history is drawing to a close.
		And, most notoriously, in 1996 the Hsi Lai Temple in Los Angeles, founded by Hsing Yun of the Fo Guang Shan, was caught up in a high-profile fund-raising scandal involving then-U.S. Vice-President Al Gore.
	www.urbandharma.org /udharma4/budbusiness.html (1472 words)

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