2014 YSF Summer Dharma Retreat Lecturers' Bio-note (English Group)
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi, originally from New York City, has been a Buddhist monk since 1972 and is highly regarded as a scholar and teacher. He lived in Asia for 24 years, where he was president and editor of the Buddhist Publication Society. Resident at Chuang Yen Monastery since 2007, he was recently elected president of BAUS, the Buddhist Association of the United States.
菩提法師是來自紐約市的一位美籍佛教僧人。
西元 1944 年出生於紐約市的布魯克林區。
1966 年，取得布魯克林大學哲學學士之學位。
1972 年，於克萊爾蒙特研究所完成哲學博士學位。
當他廿多歲時，就對佛法產生了濃厚的興趣，在完成博士學位後即赴斯里蘭卡，追隨當代僧人學者先驅 --- 已故的阿蘭達麥崔 彥長老 ( Ven . Balangoda Ananda Maitreya ) ，在其座下於 1972 年受沙彌戒，並於 1973 年受比丘具足戒 。
1984 年，他奉任斯里蘭卡佛教出版社（ Buddhist Publication Society ）總編輯，並於 1988 年出任該社社長。法師在著作、翻譯、編輯上聲譽卓著，並出版過多部重要作品，包括『 The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha -- A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya 」（中部尼柯耶英譯，與 Ven.Bhikkhu Nanamoli 合譯之， 1995 出版），『 The Connected Discourses of the Buddha -- A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya 』（相應部尼柯耶英譯， 2000 出版）等。
2000 年五月，法師受邀在聯合國首次衛塞節（釋迦佛誕辰、成佛、涅槃日）慶典中演講，闡述衛塞節的意義。 2002 年他回到美國。同年七月常住於同淨蘭若並在此傳授佛法。
A Mahāyāna Buddhist monk from Penang , Malaysia .
1997, graduated from Institute for Medical Research, Malaysia.
1997, received novice ordination.
1998, received full ordination in Taiwan.
2002, graduated in Diploma of the Primary Buddhist Study from Fu Yan Buddhist Institute, Taiwan.
2003-2009, taught in Malaysian Buddhist Institute.
2012, obtained Graduate Diploma of Arts (Buddhist Studies) from Fu Yan Buddhist Institute, Taiwan.
Currently, appointed as advisor and lecturer for certain Buddhist Association and Temple in Malaysia .
Bhikṣu Chang Tzu Fashi with Master YinShun
A Taiwanese monk born in Taipei , Taiwan . He graduated in 1995 from the Department of Atmospheric Science at the National Central University in Taiwan with a major in meteorology and went on to receive his Masters degree in 1997 from the Institute of Space Science. Bhikṣu Chang Tzu was ordained by Venerable Hou-Guan in 2000. He then studied advanced Buddhism at the Fuyan Institute until 2002 and studied specialized Buddhist programs at the graduate school until 2005. He has conducted dharma lessons at the Bodhi Monastery in New Jersey, USA, during their winter and summer courses in 2006–2010. He did his PhD research at the University of Sydney in 2007–2012, where he was researching Buddhism relevant to early Mahayana doctrine. His research in particular focused on the formation, transmission and use of texts, involving the comparative study of Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Pali sources. In 2013, Bhikṣu Changtzu obtained a PhD in Buddhist studies from the University of Sydney. He is currently a lecturer at the Fuyan Buddhist Institute.
A native New Yorker and current Director of the Dharma Drum Retreat Center, Chang Wen Fashi is a western monastic disciple of Chan Master Sheng Yen. After his ordination as a novice in 2004, he lived at the Dharma Drum Mountain World Center for Buddhist Education, Taiwan, and received a monastic education at the Dharma Drum Sangha University. After graduating from the University, he received full ordination in 2006, and then continued to serve as the counselor for the male students of the Chan Meditation Studies Department. Over this period of training, he attended and assisted with numerous intensive meditation retreats in the Chan Hall and abroad, as well as served as the leader for DDM's International Meditation Group in Taipei. Chang Wen Fashi holds a Bachelor's Degree of Science from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He is fluent in both English and Mandarin.
She is an ordained Buddhist nun of the Mahayana tradition and a Ph.D. student at the University of Florida. She had been trained in Yuan-Kuang Institute of Buddhist Studies for three years and received her M.A. in the Religion Department of the National Cheng-Chi University in Taiwan. Her research spans the medieval and contemporary periods of Buddhism. Currently she is investigating the development of Chinese Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist art history, and the mutual interactions between Buddhism and other religions. Her dissertation is the study of the medieval Chinese beliefs and practices centered on Medicine Master Buddha (Bhaisajyaguru Buddha).
He 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.