Our Founder Master Sheng Yen “The Dharma is so good, yet so few people know about it and so many people misunderstand it.” It was based on this simple belief that Vene...

The Chan Meditation Center, located in Elmhurst (Queens), New York, was founded by Chan Master Sheng Yen in 1977 with the purpose of bringing Chinese Chan [Zen] Buddhism to the Western world. The Chan...