This Dharma Master was born to the Tsung family and given the personal name Kwok-yuen, in Kwangchow, China, on May 18, 1952. Because of his good roots and keen intelligence, he was able to meet a good teacher and leave the home life at the young age of fourteen. This is especially rare considering the fact that very few men leave the home life in China, and the Buddhadharma is in serious decline in Asia. On the anniversary of the birth of Sakyamuni in 1966 he left the home life under the Elder Master Mao Feng at Tung Po Temple in Kowloon, Hong Kong. He then continued his studies at the Buddhist Tai Kwong Middle School (equivalent of High School in the United States') from which he graduated in 1972. At the present time he holds a unique position in the cross cultural exchange that is carrying Buddhism to Western nations as the first Chinese monk to pursue a course of study in an American College. In the fall of 1974 he will enter his second year of study at Vincennes University in Indiana.