A Brief Introduction to Hoang Phap Monastery

Our respected Master named Nguyen Sy Cuong before being a monk was born in 1958 in Daklak province, Vietnam, but his town of origin was Bac Ninh. His father Nguyen Sy Hieu, and mother Nguyen Thi Dang. He is the second send among their seven children.

On December 8th , 1973, he met Ven. Ngo Chan Tu and decided to train the monkhood. Three years later he became a novice monk (1976) and started to learn Dharma in other temples as Giac Ngo, Gia Lam, An Quang in Ho Chi Minh.

In 1981, he took the full ordination and became a Bhikkhu. Then he spent five years (1985-1990) to do the BA Buddhist study. In 1988, Master passed away and entrusted the Hoang Phap Monastery to him. He officially became the abbot until now.

Being Abbot, he advanced and developed many practice programs fitting to various ages from the old-age, the young, and the kid also. In the recent years, he found two funds, one for the poor students support and another for the monk education. Vietnam has many temples from the north to the south, but not many of them holding organizing practice courses or forming practice centers for the lay people. He was the pioneer for these Buddhist activities and was praised by many the most high ranking monks in Vietnam.

In the Abbot's role, he had done many works for the Buddhist spreading including books, verses, prose and some translating and compilating works. Among them, the two were published with multilanguage: The Mud Poems and The Nice Word Poems. The other twenty books still in Vietnamese.

Besides the Monastery's activities, he also visited and preached Dharma for the Vietnamese Buddhist groups overseas as Korea, Japan, Cambodia, America, England, Australia,...