# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lu-sheng-yen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:33:15.429Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lu-sheng-yen"
name: "Lu Sheng-yen"
slug: "lu-sheng-yen"
description: "Lu Sheng-Yen, commonly referred to by followers as Grand Master Lu (師尊), is a Taiwanese-born American Buddhist teacher who is the founder and spiritual leader of the True Buddha School, a new religious movement with teachings from Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. Lu is known by the sect as Living Buddha Lian Sheng and is revered by his disciples as a Living Buddha."
tagline: "American Buddhist writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Figure_of_Grandmaster_Sheng-yen_Lu.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1945-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.2
  momentum:             0.04374772147283996
  historical:           6.432513333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tbsn.org"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%A7%E5%8B%9D%E5%BD%A5"
    title: "盧勝彥"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Sheng-yen"
    title: "Lu Sheng-yen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF_%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "لو شینگ ین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Sheng-yen"
    title: "Lu Sheng-yen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu_Sheng-yen"
    title: "Lu Sheng-yen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C6%B0_Th%E1%BA%AFng_Ng%E1%BA%A1n"
    title: "Lư Thắng Ngạn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%B4%CD%98_S%C3%A8ng-g%C4%81n"
    title: "Lô͘ Sèng-gān"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2155041"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump