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目前駐錫法界佛教總會馬來西亞分支道場紫雲洞的恆泰師，是在讀過〈修行者的消息〉後，嚮往於宣公上人的德行與教化眾生的苦心，放下環遊世界的計劃，並與朋友一同放下事業，在一九八九年到了萬佛聖城。稍後蒙上人慈悲於其座下出家，並於九一年受具足戒。
隨後因緣成熟返回馬來西亞，在此南傳國家介紹北傳佛法，接引眾生。有感於現代人們精神多苦悶，佛法的開示更形重要，可以啟發本有的智慧，過一個健康無煩無惱的人生，所以她在安排道場活動時，特別注重講經說法，介紹大乘佛法和做人的道理。人要有福報才能聞正法，遇到正法還要珍惜，最低限度先要建立一個正確的人生觀，進而回光返照，斷欲去愛，了生脫死。為了穩固大眾學佛的順緣，紫雲洞每月藥師懺、水懺各舉辦一次，廿四小時念誦大悲咒或楞嚴咒各一次，還有週日佛學班和繪畫班等，成人學佛，小孩則參加托兒。
負責寺廟裡的行政、香積和有關信眾之事，恆泰師稟持著萬佛聖城六大宗旨的家風盡力為教為眾生，勤力認真，仰靠師父上人的教誨，並融合師兄弟的智慧，以無比的毅力，眾志成城克服困難。使信眾一致盡心盡力，愛護道場，堅固道業。恆泰師說紫雲洞在艱難中時時有不可說的感應，使她信心增上。學佛的路是長遠不斷的，她願意本著戒律的精神，和善知識的教導，克盡所能成就眾生。
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Bhikshuni Heng Tai currently lives at Ziyun Dong (Purple Cloud Cave), a branch temple of Dharma Realm Buddhist Association in Malaysia. After reading the book News of True Cultivators, her admiration for the Ven. Master's virtue and his painstaking efforts to teach living beings made her renounce her career and plan to travel around the world, and come with a friend to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in 1989. Before long, with the Ven. Master's compassion, she left the home-life and was fully ordained in 1991.
Later, ripening conditions led her to return to Malaysia to introduce people in this Theravadan country to the Mahayana Buddhadharma. She feels that people nowadays suffer great psychological stress, so it becomes even more important to hear the Dharma, which can bring forth our inherent wisdom and help us lead healthy lives free of afflictions. In scheduling the temple's activities, she emphasizes the Dharma lectures, which introduce people to the Mahayana Dharma and the principles of being human. People can get to hear the proper Dharma only if they have blessings. When we encounter the proper Dharma, we should cherish it, and then we should at least adopt a proper philosophy of life. Next, we should reflect within ourselves, free ourselves from love and desire, and end birth and death. In order to sustain everyone's good conditions for learning Buddhism, the temple conducts the Medicine Master Repentance, the Water Repentance and twenty-four hour recitations of the Great Compassion Mantra and the Shurangama Mantra every month. There are also classes for Buddhist study and painting every Sunday. While adults are studying the Buddhadharma, children attend the daycare program.
In managing the administration, kitchen, and matters related to the temple's devotees, Bhikshuni Heng Tai bases herself on the Six Guidelines of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas and tries her best to serve Buddhism and living beings. Working diligently and relying on the Ven. Master's instructions and the wisdom of her Dharma brothers, she has an indomitable strength which overcomes all difficulties. She inspires laypeople to give their utmost support to the temple and strengthen their cultivation. She relates that her own faith has grown due to the inconceivable responses which occur whenever the temple is in difficulty. The road of cultivation is long and continuous; she hopes to base herself on the spirit of precepts and the instructions of a Good and Wise Advisor and do her best to help living beings succeed.
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