She was inspired by her master and mentor, the late Venerable Master Yin Shun ( 印順導師, Yìn Shùn dǎoshī ), a significant proponent of Humanistic Buddhism, who exhorted her to: " work for Buddhism and for all sentient beings.

In the 20th century, while the great monk scholar Venerable Yin Shun was often associated with this school, he himself did not claim such direct affiliation:

After returning to China, During Hsu Yun's fifty-third year, he joined with other Venerable Masters Pu Zhao, Yue Xia, and Yin Lian ( Lotus Seal ) to cultivate together.

In February 1963, she became the disciple of her mentor, the Venerable Master Yin Shun, who gave her the dharma name of Cheng Yen and the courtesy name of Huìzhāng ( 慧璋 ).

* Venerable Master Yin Shun ( Taiwan )

Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

He or she also upon installation automatically becomes a Knight or Dame of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Clement X also had declared Venerable one of the famous spanish mystics, Sister María de Jesús de Ágreda.

The Venerable Leo Dupont also known as The Holy Man of Tours lived in Tours at about the same time.

He or she also upon installation automatically becomes a Knight or Dame of Justice and the Prior and Chief Officer in Canada of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

* Bouchard I the Venerable ( 1005 ), also count of Vendôme, Corbeil, and Melun

* The remains of the Venerable or the Blessed are sometimes exhumed to ensure their bodies lie in their correctly-marked graves, as their gravesites usually become places for devotees to gather, and also to collect relics.

* Augustus ( also "" or ""), " Majestic " or " Venerable "; an honorific cognomen exclusive to the emperor

During the Middle Ages the name was used first of all to denote Iceland, such as by Dicuil, by the Anglo-Saxon monk Venerable Bede in De ratione temporum, by the Landnámabók, by the anonymous Historia Norwegie and by the German cleric Adam of Bremen in his Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church, where they cite ancient writers ' use of Thule but also new knowledge since the end of antiquity.

The Jain Agamas also contain explicit use of this term aside from referencing Mahavira: The Ten Lectures on the Religious Profession of a Layman describe Ananda, a disciple of Mahavira, stating, " Venerable sir, I believe in the doctrine of the Nigaṇṭhas ; I am convinced of the Nigaṇṭha doctrine.

The special title prōtosebastos (" First Venerable One ") was created for Hadrianos, Alexios ' second brother, and awarded also to the Doge of Venice and the Sultan of Iconium.

In the case of Venerable Hsin Ping ( who was originally Venerable Zhizong ), he was also not officially elected, as he was Hsing Yun's designated heir apparent.

Peter the Venerable, also working in the twelfth century, studied Islam and made possible a Latin translation of the Qur ' an.

He was also a Knight of Grace of the Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem and was responsible for bringing the Military and Hospitaler Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem to Canada.

Toward the end of the 7th century, the Venerable Bede began a translation of scripture into Old English ( also called Anglo-Saxon ).

He was also a Knight of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jesuralem, and became Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific at Suva, which was founded with the support of his government.

Venerable Hsuan Hua, who taught Chán / Zen and Pure Land Buddhism, also taught that the external breathing reaches a state of stillness in correct meditation:

Weider was also a 1984 nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, a member of the Quebec Sports Hall of Fame, and a Commander of the Venerable Order of St. John.

Sing Lung, ( 聖龍, also Sing Luhng, meaning Sage Dragon or Venerable Monk ) was a Chinese martial artist.

The Venerable Sayadaw U Pandita (, ; also ; born 29 July 1921 ) is one of the foremost living masters of Vipassana meditation.

He is also commemorated in common with other saints of the Kiev Caves Laura on September 28 ( Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Kiev Caves ) and on the Second Sunday of Great Lent.

The 7 – 8th-century English monk St. Bede was referred to as being venerable soon after his death and, by tradition, is therefore often referred to as " the Venerable Bede " despite his also having been canonized.

In Buddhism, the Western style of Venerable ( also abbreviated as Ven.

* Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda.

An example is the Rosary of the Holy Wounds first introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by the Venerable Sister Mary Martha Chambon, a Roman Catholic nun of the Monastery of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France.

* c. 220 BCE: Theravada Buddhism is officially introduced to Sri Lanka by the Venerable Mahinda, son of the emperor Ashoka of India during the reign of King Devanampiya Tissa.

According to traditional Sri Lankan chronicles ( such as the Dipavamsa ), Buddhism was introduced into Sri Lanka in the 4th century BCE by Venerable Mahinda, the son of the Emperor Ashoka, during the reign of Sri Lanka's King Devanampiya Tissa.

The Rosary of the Holy Wounds was first introduced at the beginning of the 20th century by the Venerable Sister Mary Martha Chambon, a lay Roman Catholic Sister of the Monastery of the Visitation Order in Chambéry, France as a focus on the Holy Wounds of Jesus.

is defined as the union of Kadampa Buddhist Centres, the international association of study and meditation centres that follow the pure tradition of Mahayana Buddhism derived from the Buddhist meditators and scholars Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa, introduced into the West by the Buddhist teacher Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, the Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union ; and that follow the three New Kadampa Tradition Study Programmes ; and that are guided by the code of moral discipline called The Internal Rules of the New Kadampa Tradition – International Kadampa Buddhist Union set out in this document.

A Venerable has as of yet no feast day, no churches may be built in his or her honor, and the church has made no statement on the person's probable or certain presence in heaven, but prayer cards and other materials may be printed to encourage the faithful to pray for a miracle wrought by his or her intercession as a sign of God's will that the person be canonized.

" ( The patient was sick, there was no known cure for the ailment, prayers were directed to the Venerable, the patient was cured, the cure was spontaneous, instantaneous, complete and lasting, and doctors cannot find any natural explanation.

The Venerable Bede writes of the pope's affectionate concern for the English Church.

Upon his accession he wrote to Peter the Venerable and the monks of Cluny, asking them to pray for him, while he was congratulated by Arnulf of Lisieux.

He is known to have studied Euclid and to have translated the work of Al Battani and Avicenna, and it seems that he would not have made the translation for which he is famous, that of the Qur ' an, without the encouragement of the French Abbot Peter the Venerable, who wished to have access to Islamic texts.

The eighth century monk and chronicler the Venerable Bede wrote a history of the English church called Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ; the history only covers events up to 731, but as one of the major sources for Anglo-Saxon history it provides important background information for Offa's reign.

* Eminent and Venerable Council of Sages-The council comprises the first three Fraggles to show up for a hearing.

Samuel Mazzuchelli, a missionary and expert in Indian languages, ministered to whites and Indians in Wisconsin and Iowa for 34 years and, after his death, was declared Venerable by the Catholic Church.

Theobald resisted for 14 months before a compromise was reached through the intercession of Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, allowing Theobald to give a verbal profession to Hugh.

Baronius left a reputation for sanctity which led Pope Benedict XIV to proclaim him " Venerable " ( January 12, 1745 ).

Another help was the cure of the near-dying Venerable Pauline Jaricot, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, at Philomena's shrine on 10 August 1835.

To understand the meaning of this objective sign, Father Hugues Delautre refers to the 12th-century texts ( Suger, Peter the Venerable, Honorius of Autun ) that inhabit the monument with the symbolic mentality of that time, for which sense reveals itself from sensitive signs through the anagogical method ( literally ascent towards the uncreated ), and where one's gaze is invited to go beyond the reality of the sign to reach the invisible, i. e. God and his mystery.

* 1974: Wat Pah Nanachat, the first monastery dedicated to providing training and support for western Buddhist monks, is founded in Thailand by Venerable Ajahn Chah.

Caodaiists often use the term Đức Cao Đài ( Venerable Cao Đài ) as the abbreviated name for God, the creator of the universe, whose full title is Cao Đài Tiên Ông Đại Bồ Tát Ma-ha-tát ( translation: Cao Đài Ancient Sage Great Bodhisattva Mahasattva ).

He was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1993, and the case for his Sainthood is still pending.

Both are operated by the Fo Guang Shan Order, founded in Taiwan, and around 2003 the Grand Master, Venerable Hsing Yun, asked for Nan Tien Temple and Buddhist practice there to be operated by native Australians citizens within about thirty years.

As for the mason-and-mortar Buddha image enshrined in the vihara at the Sri Mongkol Temple, the inhabitants of the realm named it Phra Chao Ong Luang ( พระเจ ้ าองค ์ หลวง ), or Venerable Holy One, and made it the representative image of Wat Sri Mongkol, which itself was later renamed to Wat Sri Mongkol South ; this Buddha image has been associated with the settlement and realm ever since.

At first he was anxious to bring up his fleet in a compact body, for at best his numbers were not more than equal to those of the Dutch ; but seeing the absolute necessity of immediate action, without waiting for the ships astern to come up, without waiting to form line of battle, and with the fleet in very irregular order of sailing, in two groups, led respectively by himself in the Venerable and Vice-admiral Richard Onslow in the Monarch, he made the signal to pass through the enemy's line and engage to leeward.