Beginning with Master Sheng Yen giving a speech in the UN Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders in 2000, this film profiles the life of an internationally renowned Chan master, including his becoming a monk at the Wolf Mountain monastery, receiving education at the Buddhist seminary, joining the army, resuming the monastic life, pursuing further study in Japan, spreading the Dharma worldwide, establishing the Dharma Drum Mountain sangha, and promoting the Three-fold Education.
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