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　　Hualien in eastern Taiwan, there is a run-down suburban hills panel houses with poor living inside such a practice everything without the nuns, she was the mountain to see a woman giving birth, because they can not afford to bond out of the door of hospital on the issue of vision, to build a hospital dedicated to the poor people see the doctor when she needed money is 800 million NT dollars, which for her is undoubtedly an astronomical figure, but then she not only completed this wish, and 30 years, she raised a total of billions of NT dollars of donations, almost one-fifth of Taiwan's population has more than 400 million people that is more or less involved in her charity. In her world there are more than 10 million volunteers,
　　He (she )----- is known as the "Oriental Teresa", "human Bodhisattva" and Master Cheng Yen.
　　Speech pro-practice, common love of all living beings ---- in 1937, two months before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, Master Cheng Yen was born, the common name King Wan, was born in Taichung, a wealthy family, childhood is very sensible, filial piety, 10 year-old, the mother needs surgery for gastric perforation in 50, 60 years, surgery is very dangerous. Therefore, to the days of prayer volunteers of the Master "is willing to reduce their own years of life, vegetarian, life for the mother by blessing," filial piety may be moved by day! Mother's illness miraculously without surgery, medication and survived.
　　Five years later his father died suddenly from a stroke, giving him a serious blow to explore his father's place to facilitate contact with Buddhism in the cause. Father died young, and her mother sick, so her young life full of confusion, but also the suffering of the family think of the suffering of sentient beings, not a few degrees of home abandoned customs and, after rove yet to find accommodation retreat, which they sometimes Taipei Taichung, Taitung around everything without the last country in the small temple in Hualien County Hsiulin - Fumyoji safety to stay. 1962 fall, he was twenty years old, no tonsure master their own hair, quietly set foot on the life of the monks practice.
　　Chance encounter mentor, hard practice - - February 1963, he was coming to Taipei to prepare ordained Rinzai temple, but because there is no ordained teacher can not apply. Ring an hour before the close of market entry, due to the Hui-day Forum, please purchase "The Complete Works of the Great Void Master" of the cause, coincidence Master Yin Shun (Master Tai Xu following Buddhism after the claim, the first Taiwanese monk community in order to obtain Japanese paper is Literature Ph.D. University of Monks), to the surprise, and to a humble respectful, give it a try the heart, the old Indian prayer request for the teacher, can not think of teachers actually been promised, Master Cheng Yen overjoyed. Lack of time, Venerable Yin Shun conversion ceremony in a simple check against Yen Discovery said: "You're my sacred cause, I think enough time, but as a monk, you should at all times to Buddhism, for all living beings ah! "and immediately took the formal names for him -" Yen "character" Hui Zhang. " OK a simple conversion ceremony, which went to Rinzai temple entry as soon as possible, smooth the altar by three large ring. 32 days later, Master Cheng Yen to return to Hualien, on Fumyoji rear, by the time the old lay Buddhist monks Xu Congmin the heart and, as he erected a humble, 10-foot 12-foot square wooden hut practice, day and night in the house chanting, copying them by prayer, burning arm worship Buddha, Eat less less sleep, diligent work hard, live Kiyonaga life.
　　Compassion of touch ---- 1966 Master to a surgery clinic to visit his disciples stomach bleeding father, from the ward area to see the ground out of a pool of blood, but the people? People go? Next to it was said: "Take it! Is a mountain woman miscarriage, four young aborigines from Fongbin turns carrying, walking seven or eight hours of the mountain, only to be here, because they can not pay medical expenses and margin, so the lift back. "can not suppress the grief in the hearts of the young mage, an avalanche hit, and he thought: I do not know two people or a life? Is alive or dead? Is this the frustration of life it?
　　Master was originally a monk to avoid fame and fortune, but at the moment, the "money" seems to have a new interpretation --- the money can be used to save.
　　But with money, if not timely, the same can not save people; he suddenly insight into the Buddhist phrase: ", Thousand Guanyin, peril living Buddha" and if everyone has got to do with the heartless, then 500 people spread In every corner, do not have the timely, Thousand peril? Thus, a new, different from the traditional Buddhist practice ideas took root in his heart to organize a 500 person group has become a living, Thousand Bodhisattva, in order to birth the spirit of the mandate for accession to the WTO.
　　In 1966 the prototype of a world relief organization - the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation of overcoming difficulties, a monk in Master and four disciples and 30 disciples organized under a vow. The initial approach by the four disciples, and the two old people, per person per day processing yield a pair of baby shoes, quaternary, increased 24 yuan a day, an average 720 yuan a month; and 30 followers, is without prejudice to the case of life, to save fifty cents a day food money, as emergency relief payments.
　　The five cents, seems meager, but the implication of the knowledge and practical not powerful.
　　Master the use of bamboo behind the house first, sawn 30 piggy banks, issued a faithful one, and insisted that they deposited the five cents a day. Believers wonder: Why not just pay 15 yuan a month then? Master said: "No wonder, I hope you bring every day basket that put the five cents, the Pro will have a save before leaving the heart, to save five cents, that is to cultivate thrift in the heart and love, save the heart The two feel a cylinder, the power is great. "So the 30 individuals, bring basket to the vegetable market every day, everyone they spread joy," we have to save 5 cents a day! we have a Relief, we have to save lives! "" Five cents can save lives? "message does not Jing and go, more and more people involved, the functions of the suffering, Thousand soon found to play a; second months of relief, a continent they come to Taiwan, helpless old lady, someone to deliver meals to her every day, empty the environment for her until she passed away until the burial. A hard, a great world relief projects carried out so quietly, that year the Master 20-year-old, a monk from the formal, but also only four years before the project.
　　International Disaster Relief ---- With the rapid exchange of international information, the international emergency information through the screen comes into view as the world's global village 『a member of the Tzu Chi people, the suffering of the world He has a heart and can not bear responsibility for that. From 1991, the Tzu Chi will be actively participating in international emergency relief services, material and spiritual, to countries affected victims of the most appropriate help and care, they lit the torch of hope, inspired confidence and dauntless courage, pray them out of pain, looking ahead.
　　April 30, 2002, the transformation of the Tzu Chi Tzu Chi Marrow Stem Cells Center, addition to strengthening the bone marrow registry, but also the will develop stem cell research, gene therapy, and the formation of cord blood bank, scheduled raise in three years 10000 document cord blood, bone marrow match as a second line of defense, if not match bone marrow match can also be matched umbilical cord blood stem cells.
　　Master not only calls upon all volunteers training "appreciating what you have" the habit of using solar power in the Jing Si Abode, laying around the chain of brick, set the recycle bin, water and waste water recycling; in Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, rainwater recycling system annual savings of 350 tons of hospital water, 194 kilowatts capacity; chain of brick laying the ground for the earth to breathe; E of electronic documents, saving paper waste; still do not wash X film processing and transmission of medical images system are shown in the Master Treasuring the earth, the implementation of environmental protection commitment.
　　Now his step charities all over the world almost every day, nearly 1 million volunteers around the world to serve the public.
　　Life Life is short, but it is the permanence of time and space; several thousand years, frequent personnel changes, but the world needs and never continued. Tzu Chi Chi is designed to be suffering sentient beings. Master Cheng Yen of a study compassion, kindness and care to the Education and rich to the poor Salvage beings directly, his birth is more than most people joining the WTO was born.