Compass Global

Venerable Hang Truong is one of the influential Vietnamese monks in the Vietnamese communities all over the world. Born in Vietnam, grown up during the war, educated in United States, ordained under the Chinese tradition and educated in the Dharma under the direct tutelage of Master Hsuan Hua, the world’s enlightened Master of the Chinese Zen lineage, Master Hang Truong has worked and served multi-ethnic communities across Asia, America and Europe. The Master embodies, teaches, and lives by multicultural, multi-disciplined, global centric values. He is very well known for his holistic, integral approach to modernize and integrate Buddhism into the fast changing world.

In 2002, he created Compassionate Service Society, a non profit organization that helps heal the body, mind and spirit. In 2003 he co-founded Hana Spiritual Retreat in Maui, Hawaii, aspires to be a spiritual center to bring key leaders of the world religions for dialogues and cross-cultural understanding.

This year 2005, the Master launched community wide effort to help the victims and survivors of the Asian tsunami in Sri Lanka. In a world that is in dire need for love and caring, Venerable Hang Truong’s innovative spiritual work and teaching bring invigorating spiritual uplift and healing, which transcend ethnocentrism and cultural divides, peace and harmony for self and community, are indeed the new hallmarks of Buddhism in the 21st century.