Dharma Master Heng Chih, Ph.D.
Dharma Master Heng Chih, Monastic Advisor of Gold Coast Dharma Realm (Queensland), has been ordained as a Buddhist nun in the Mahayana tradition for over 40 years, and is one of the first five American disciples of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua.She has profound experience as a meditation practitioner upholding monastic precepts, and is fluent in both Chinese (Mandarin) and English. She has been credited in many Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS) publications of translated canonical Buddhist texts and their modern-language commentaries.
She earned a Masters degree (1980) and a Doctorate degree (1984) in Translation of Buddhist Texts from Dharma Realm Buddhist University (California). She now teaches Buddhist Philosophy at Bond University, Gold Coast since 2008.
Dharma Master Jin Fu
Dharma Master Jin Fu is the Monastic Director of Gold Coast Dharma Realm (Queensland) monastery. In addition to her monastic duties, she currently lectures on the lines and phrases of the Shurangama Mantra and Prologue of Avatamsaka Sutra in GCDR.
She is also an experienced editor, having compiled and edited many publications of the BTTS. Currently, she is working on a chronicle: A year-by-year record of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua’s life and teachings.