Master Sheng-Yen Lu, Living Buddha Lian-Sheng, also revered as Grand Master, is the root lineage guru of True Buddha School.
His emanation is from Mahavairocana to Locana to Padmakumara. Grand Master holds lineage from Ningma, Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug schools of Tibetan Buddhism and has attained the highest fruition in all four orders: Dzogchen, Mahamudra and The Six Yogas of Naropa, Great Completion, and Yamantaka.
As of 2006, over 5 million people have taken refuge in the True Buddha School and over 300 chapters world-wide, the True Buddha School is recognized as a major component in Buddhism today. As a true guru with boundless compassion and sublime spiritual attainments, he provides an excellent exemplar for spiritual cultivators in this degenerate age. He leads a disciplined life of spiritual practice, teaching, writing, and painting.