Rev. Heng Sure

I'm a vegan, an American Buddhist Monk. I live the Bay Area, in Berkeley, California and I teach world-wide.

I ordained in 1976 at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, after receiving my M.A. from UC Berkeley’s Oriental Languages Department at in 1976, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in 2003.

After thirty years in robes I've become the senior monastic disciple of the late Chan Master Hsuan Hua. I use Mandarin Chinese, French and bit of Japanese in making translations of Buddhist texts.

I've been a Trustee of the United Religions Initiative since 1997 and serve as a Board member of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio. I direct the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and have taught at the GTU seminary since 1997.

I grew up in Toledo, Ohio and am involved in translating Buddhist music, both liturgical and popular, into the West.