Now the Director of the Dharma Drum Retreat Center, Chang Yuan Fashi manages the DDRC center and is a meditation teacher with over ten years of experience. He first entered the Dharma Drum Sangha University in 2002, where he studied a formal Buddhist education. In 2006, he received full ordination. After graduating from DDSU, for the next four years he devoted himself to the education and administration of a youth group. From 2010-2014, while at the Dharma Drum Mountain organization meditation center, Chang Yuan Fashi managed an administration unit to promote meditation, including training courses, meditation classes, and short-term retreats. During that time, he ran two large and remarkable meditation events for 10,000 people. From 2010-2017, at DDMO, he completed his meditation training in a meditation hall and became a meditation teacher. He then spent several years teaching and spreading meditation in Taiwan, holding many retreats. In 2019, he became a resident monastic in the United States. He continues to teach meditation.