TAIWAN — Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the founding patriarch of the Fo Guang Shan (Buddha’s Light Mountain) Buddhist Order, passed away on Sunday (5 February) 5 pm at the age of 97. Fo Guang Shan ...

Taiwan has remembered one of its most influential and revered Buddhist monks as a man who promoted international harmony and backed peaceful reunification across the Taiwan Strait. Master Hsing Yun ...

Buddhist Master Hsing Yun (星雲法師), founder of the Buddhist organization Fo Guang Shan, passed away on Sunday last week. In his 95 years, Hsing Yun built an extraordinary legacy of charity, education ...

Hsing Yun, founder of Fo Guang Shan Monastery in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and an influential monk who died at the age of 95 on Sunday, had played an irreplaceable role in promoting peace and reunification ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Hsing Yun, a Buddhist abbot who established a thriving religious community in southern Taiwan and built universities overseas, has died. He was 95. He established Fo Guang Shan ...

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