As a child witnessing the contradictions and miseries of life, Heng Han Shi often fantasized about secluding herself in a place like the Himalayas. In college, she studied the most fashionable major, English, but joined the Buddhist Society. Realizing that suffering is a fact of life transcended through cultivation alone, she decided to devote her life to cultivation.

Graduating from National Taiwan Teachers College, she chose to teach at a rural school. Outside of school hours, she meditated, recited the Buddha's name, bowed to the Buddhas, and memorized the Dharma Flower Sutra. During long vacations, she attended retreats at Buddhist temples. After a year, she underwent an ordeal, caused possibly by the contrast between her life and the external world. Living in seclusion, she found the gossip and contention of the outside world hard to accept.

Gradually she realized that avoiding others and seeking self-liberation was not the Buddha's intent. She moved into a temple, hoping to learn how to teach others with kindness as well as cultivate herself. Haplessly, she chose a commercial temple and created many offenses there.

One day in college, she recalled joyfully reading Vajra Bodhi Sea journal. The words "City of Ten Thousand Buddhas" on the cover brought to her mind's eye a Way-place of Proper Dharma. When the Master went to Taiwan in 1988, she took refuge with him. Feeling that the Master alone could guide her, in 1990 she moved into the Master's Proper Dharma Buddhist Academy as a student. In 1993 she joined the monastic order under the Master and emulated the Master's strict moral discipline and vast vows to liberate living beings. Currently at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, she is editing the Venerable Master's lectures on Reflections in Water and Mirrors for publication in the near future.