Master cheng yen biography of michael jackson

Taiwanese Buddhist nun (born 1937)

Cheng Yen or Shih Cheng Yen (Chinese: 證嚴法師, 釋證嚴; pinyin: Zhèngyán Fǎshī; Wade–Giles: Chêng⁴ Yen² Fa³-shih¹; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chèng-giâm Hoat-su;^[a] born Chin-Yun Wong; the 24th of the third Lunar month, 4 May 1937)^[1][2] is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun (bhikkhuni), teacher, and philanthropist. She is the founder of the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation,^[3] ordinarily referred to as Tzu Chi, a Buddhist humanitarian organization based in Taiwan. In the West, she is sometimes referred to as the "Mother Teresa of Asia".^{[4][3][5][6][7][8][9]}

Cheng Yen was born in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation. She developed an interest in Buddhism as a young adult, ordaining as a Buddhist nun in 1963 under the well known proponent of humanistic Buddhism, master Yin Shun. After an encounter with a poor