Venerable Yung Dong is a Buddhist monastic ordained in the Fo Guang Shan monastic order, and a graduate of Taiwan National Cheng Kung University. Ven. Yung Dong has served as the director in Buddhist temples throughout Australia, Thailand, and the United States, and has lectured in Auckland University, Melbourne University, and MIT. Having arrived in the United States in 1998, she currently teaches Buddhism and meditation throughout North America.