TEACHERS
Abbot Guo Yuan
Guo Yuan Fashi, one of Chan Master Sheng Yen’s Dharma heirs, is a Buddhist monk trained in Chan Buddhism. In 1985 he first encountered Master Sheng Yen’s teachings while attending…
Chang Ji Fashi
Venerable Chang Ji was ordained as a nun under Dharma Drum Mountain in 2004. In her role as the International Affairs Special Assistant to the late Most Venerable Master Sheng…
Chang Yuan Fashi
Currently serves as the director of the Dharma Drum Retreat Center to manage this center. Served as meditation teacher with over 10 years of experience to share with participants about…
David Listen
David has been sharing Chan/Zen meditation and Buddhist teachings for over 20 years, leading intensive meditation retreats, classes, and activities at various monasteries, college campuses, and private institutions throughout North…
David Slaymaker
David Slaymaker began studying with Master Sheng Yen in 1995. He has given Dharma talks and lead mediation and Dharma classes at CMC, lead meditation classes, 1-day retreats and Beginner’s…
Gilbert Gutierrez
Gilbert Gutierrez has over thirty-nine years of meditation experience, which includes his study of various martial arts as well as Chi Gong. In 2002, he received Dharma Transmission from Chan…
Harry Miller
Harry Miller studied with Chan Master Sheng Yen for over 30 years, and currently leads the Westchester Chan Meditation Group in White Plains, NY. He teaches formal beginners and intermediate…
Nancy Bonardi
Nancy met Chan Master Sheng Yen in 1978, when he was a student in her English class, and she became his meditation student shortly thereafter. She has taught metta contemplation,…
Rebecca Li
Rebecca Li, Ph.D. is a Dharma heir in the lineage of Chan Master Sheng Yen and the founder and guiding teacher of Chan Dharma Community. She attended her first intensive retreat…
Simon Child
Simon Child received Dharma Transmission from Chan Master Sheng Yen in 2000 and is the Guiding Teacher of the Western Chan Fellowship, a Chan organization based in the UK. Resident…
Yan Wu Fashi
Venerable Yan Wu joined Dharma Drum Retreat Center (DDRC) in August 2021 as a Buddhist minister. Prior to DDRC, he was a monastic advisor at Dharma Drum for Young People…
Yan Xi Fashi
Venerable Yan Xi first encountered Chan meditation during his college years, when he began searching for a path to understand and transform human suffering. Through the teachings of Venerable Master…
Zarko Andricevic
Zarko Andricevic, is founder of Dharmaloka Chan Buddhist Community and Chan Retreat Centre in Croatia. Zarko first encountered Buddhism 1975 and has been a martial arts and yoga teacher since the 1970s.…