... in international disaster relief have earned the foundation United Nations’ recognition as a nongovernmental organization (NGO) and its leader, the Venerable Cheng Yen (Zhengyan), has earned an array of international awards,1 as well as praise...

...） Xu Wenlong Zhenghun qishi Zheng Jing 鄭經 yamato-gokoro Zheng Wenhui yamato tamashii Zhengyan 證嚴 Yang Renlong Zhenhua 真華...

... and resourceful than the government. But what is Ciji and is it all good? Zhengyan, the elusive political identity at the center of Ciji, began as a nondescript Buddhist nun. She has built Ciji into a philanthropic organization of massive wealth, even...

..., March 4, 1976; Wei Ziyun, “Xirou Zhengyan,” China Times, March 17, 1976. 41. Yang Changnian, et al., eds., Ershi shiji zhongguo xin wenxue shi (A New History of Twentieth- ­Century Chinese Literature) (Banqiao: Luotuo, 1997), 331. 42...