About Us
D. M. Heng Sure
MDR Co-President
Rev. Heng Sure is the Vice-President for Religious Affairs and Dean of Translation and Language Studies at Dharma Realm Buddhist University. He was ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1976. Rev. Heng Sure received his Master's degree in Oriental languages from the University of California at Berkeley and his doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union. He serves as the Managing Director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery.
He lectures on the Avatamsaka Sutra at the Berkeley Buddhist Monasstery every Saturday evening. He is actively involved in interfaith dialogue and in the ongoing conversation between spirituality and technology.
For the sake of world peace, he undertook an over six hundred mile pilgrimage from South Pasadena to Ukiah, repeatedly taking three steps and one bow to cover the entire journey. In the entire two years taken to make the pilgrimage, he observed a practical of total silence.
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Email: hengsure@mac.com
D.M. Heng Chih
MDR Co-President
Abbot of Gold Coast Dharma Realm. Professor, Buddhist Study and Practice; Translation and Language Studies, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Translation of Buddhist Tests, Dharma Realm Buddhist University
Rev. Heng Chih has been an ordained Buddhist nun in the Mahayana tradition for 44 years, and is one of the first five American disciples of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua. She is an experienced practitioner and teacher of Buddhism, including Sutras (Buddhist Texts), meditation and monastic precepts. Rev. Heng Chih is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese, and has been credited in many Buddhist Text Translation Society (BTTS) publications of translated canonical Buddhist texts and their modern-language commentaries.
Melbourne Dharma Realm Management Committee
Co-Presidents Rev. D.M. Heng Sure and D.M. Heng Chih
Vice-President Mr. Victor K.C. Kon
Secretary Dr Say Yen Teoh
Assistant Secretary Mr. Joseph Lim
Treasurer D. M. Jin Fu
Assistant Treasurer Ms. HuiQi Wong
MDR is affiliated with:
Gold Coast Dharma Realm
An established Gold Coast, Australia branch monastery of Dharma Realm Buddhist Association
Tel: +61 (07) 5522-8788
Email: gcdr.australia@gmail.com
Dharma Realm Buddhist Association
Founded by Venerable Master Hsuan Hua in 1959 for the purpose of bringing the orthodox teachings of the Buddha to the entire world
Tel: +1 (707) 462-0939
Email: cttb@drba.org
Buddhist Text Translation Society
A treasure trove of Buddhist publications, free downloads of ebooks, audio, broadcast, ongoing translation projects and more
Email: info@buddhisttexts.org
Dharma Realm Live on YouTube
Live and recorded Dharma talks from DRBA