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His Holiness Living Buddha Lian Sheng, who is affectionately called Grandmaster Sheng Yen Lu or simply Shizun by his students, is the root lineage master of Rising Dragon Feng Shui. All our many other teachers are branch teachers, and even placing the most famous of them alongside him is like comparing the brilliance of a candle to the sun. As His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa said of him, “Grandmaster Lu has the highest attainment and meditation of all this lifetime”. That this world-renowned spiritual superhero would say such lofty words of another gives some indication of the great respect he is held in by those knowledgeable on such matters.
The fountain of the highest knowledge he has, encompasses not only all the lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, but also Japanese and Chinese Tantra, all the schools of Mahayana, Zen and Taoism. Feng Shui and BaZi are Taoist arts, and not only has he the highest mastery of these, he has layers and layers beyond, enabling us to attain lasting freedom from life’s sufferings.
The founder of the Zhen Fo Zhong (or True Buddha School) lineage of Buddhism, His Holiness Living Buddha Lian Sheng, or Grandmaster Lu (Shizun in Chinese) as we affectionately call him, was born on the eighteenth day of the fifth Lunar month, 1945, in the county of Chiayi in Taiwan. His religious background includes Christianity, Taoism, Sutrayana and Tantric Buddhism.
His Taoist and Nyingmapa Buddhist lineage came via the venerable monk, Liao Ming, who was also known as Taoist Master Qingzhen.
His Sakya Buddhist lineage comes via His Eminence Master Sakya Zhengkong (3rd Deshung Rinpoche in Tibetan).
His Kagyu lineage comes directly from His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje
His Gelug lineage was via Guru Thubten Daergye, who was also guru to Grandmaster Yap Cheng Hai.
In addition to this phenomenal list of human gurus, His Holiness states that Guru Padmasambhava is his greatest teacher, and Grandmaster has revealed numerous terma treasure this lifetime, leading many famous tertons, such as His Holiness Orgyen Kusum Lingpa, His Holiness Chokling Jigme Palden Rinpoche and Lama Tharchin Rinpoche to visit him as the greatest of the great treasure revealers.
His Holiness demonstrates the ability to summon thunder and lightning to remove evil forces using the Taoist lingpai method, California, 2018:
Grandmaster Lu has stated that worldly fame isn’t his concern, nor is he interested in having the most students. He keeps a low profile and leads a simple life, so he can concentrate on transmitting the teachings. To date, he has written an astonishing 310 books, made innumerable paintings, discoursed the highest teachings of each Buddhist sect, toured the world giving teachings and empowerments and over 300 temples have been established to accommodate over five million students. All this from nothing in just four decades, a feat impossible for someone without genuine enlightenment.
Grand Master Lu keeps a disciplined schedule throughout the day and has been practising yoga and meditation everyday for over fifty years. He has already reached the stage in which any yoga He engages in manifests a response. His inner world encompasses the Buddhist Tripitaka as well as the knowledge of the Supreme Consciousness of the Universe. Having achieved true and correct enlightenment, Grand Master Lu is revered by his students as a Living Buddha. In full in English, we refer to His Holiness as the Lotus Light Buddha of Freedom and Self Mastery or more simply, the White Lotus Buddha, because Grandmaster’s teachings enable us to overcome and transcend the problems that love, wealth, career, health and family may pose. His teaching is a most complete Dharma encompassing Feng Shui, Meditation, Qi Gong, Healing and Inner Realisation – in short, all that one needs to lead a successful, happy and fulfilled life.
More specifically, the type of Feng Shui used in True Buddha School is quite different from that most commonly found in the West, even amongst those who know advanced systems like San He and San Yuan. The True Buddha School Feng Shui system acknowledges the presence of spiritual forces in the place we live such as spirits of the land, of trees, of rivers and many others. In addition, the yin house practices are in a different league to those who only have a compass. There are techniques for making skylights or other openings as if they didn’t exist without structural modifications being made, for changing the entire energy field of a house and for completely mitigating even severe sources of sha qi.
A clip from Grandmaster Lu’s December 2017 ceremony in Indonesia gives an idea of the scale of respect he has achieved with students travelling from around the world to attend:
During his visit to India, His Holiness Living Buddha Lian Sheng taught high Tibetan masters methods to pacify the negative Feng Shui energies near His Holiness The Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamasala. Since being forced to move there, His Holiness The Dalai Lama had had great success in showing the world that there are more intelligent options available than simply trying to meet force with force. However he had been subject to petty attacks and His Holiness Living Buddha Lian Sheng pointed out the sources of the negative energies stimulating these obstacles to appear in the mountain ranges around the residence, together with methods of pacifying them.
There are many stories of His Holiness Living Buddha Lian Sheng’s own Feng Shui skills. It’s worth noting that he bought an area of land in Seattle, USA to found the HQ of True Buddha School in the 1980s. He did so because this spot occupies the “head of the dragon” position, at the end of a huge dragon’s vein. As he bought that spot, a young bespectacled man bought the adjacent plot to place the HQ of his growing business. That man was the young Bill Gates and Microsoft HQ occupy the “body of the dragon” position next door to this day.
Since then, the number of students all over the world who have taken refuge in Grand Master Lu has reached over five million at the last count in 2013, making the True Buddha School a major component of modern Buddhism – there are more disciples than the entire population of Tibet. There are also more than three hundred local chapters of the True Buddha School, including 30 major temples. Grand Master Sheng-yen Lu is also a prolific writer with over 310 Chinese books already in print. Some are translated into English, Vietnamese, Indonesian, French, Spanish and other languages.
Master Angela Ang was an early disciple of His Holiness Living Buddha Lian Sheng, taking refuge whilst still a child in the 80s. As such, she received numerous empowerments and blessings directly from him and continues to enact his teachings daily. Below you can see her and other disciples offering a dance to His Holiness at Seattle Lei Tsang Temple in 2021 when she went there for a five week retreat.
Master Charlotte Frejya-Richwoods took her refuge initiation aged 20 in the mid 90s having been introduced by Master Ang. She plays a significant role in the dissemination of his teachings amongst English speaking students, having created several of the websites that support English students such as The Amitabha Sutra Exposition and the Facebook group.
Both have received many empowerments from him, attended many of his teachings online and in person and had many personal responses from him both in person, in writing and through spiritual practice.
Both of us bow down in great homage to our illustrious guru who teaches the true path out of suffering. In gratitude to his kindness towards us, we willingly help others who have the affinity to follow this path. By showing that Feng Shui and Bazi astrology are really ways of measuring our karma, it helps our clients see that the most important re-arrangement they may need to have is in their heart. We need to commit to being good human beings, practising kindness towards others. This is the key to our obtaining good Feng Shui.
There’s more about His Holiness Living Buddha Lian Sheng and True Buddha School as well as join their online community if you want to learn more. Alternatively, if you’re unsure how to get started and want to make fast track progress, you can arrange a quick-start spiritual coaching session with Charlotte. She answer questions on any areas you’re unsure about, get you started on practices appropriate for your level and help you gain clarity on what you need to do to get results.
