Venerable Master Cheng-yen is the founder of the Tzu Chi Foundation, one of the largest Buddhist philanthropic organizations in the world. She was born in 1937 into a middle-class family in the central city of Taizhong, Taiwan. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Venerable Master Cheng-Yen (b. 1937)]
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