Author｜Ven. Master Hung Chi-Sung (Dakṣiṇa Maṇi)

Ven. Master Hung Chi-Sung (Dakṣiṇa Maṇi) is an internationally acclaimed Zen master, Zen artist, and bestselling author. From the age of ten, he studied a wide range of Zen traditions; at twenty, he began teaching meditation and samādhi. For over fifty years, he has transmitted Zen, lecturing and writing without pause as his footsteps span the world. He has led Earth Great Awakening seven-day Zen retreats in India, the United States, Taiwan, and mainland China, and has been invited to speak at leading universities—including Harvard University, Nalanda University, Peking University, and National Taiwan University—as well as at government agencies and in the business sector, on applying Zen to modern well-being and awakening.

His teaching encompasses Mahayana and Hinayana Zen, Tantra, Consciousness-Only, Pure Land, and more—integrated and transformed into methods that contemporary practitioners can readily apply in practice. With more than 300 published works, he is hailed as the “Contemporary Nagarjuna.” He founded the BuddhAll Trust and BuddhAll School in India, and serves as a guiding teacher of the Enlightening Earth Association Taiwan. He is currently a Distinguished Professor at Chung Hua University.