2008. . History of the Dharma Drum Lineage: See also Dharma Drum Mountain Nung Chan Monastery Western Chan Fellowship Timeline of Zen Buddhism in the United States References Bibliography External links Biography and Autobiography of Chan Master Sheng Yen at the website of the Chan Meditation Center in New York Dharma Drum Retreat Center in Pinebush, New York The Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies Dharma Drum Mountain in Taiwan The Western Chan Fellowship (UK) Sheng Yen education foundation 1931 births 2009 deaths 20th-century Buddhist monks Chan Buddhist monks Chinese Civil War refugees Deaths from kidney failure Dharma Drum Mountain Military personnel of the Republic of China Republic of China writers Rinzai Buddhists Soto Zen Buddhists Taiwanese Buddhist monks Taiwanese people from Shanghai Taiwanese religious leaders Taiwanese Zen Buddhists Writers from Nantong Zen Buddhist spiritual teachers Zen Buddhism writers