Doctor Dinh Hy Trinh

A member of the Board of Directors of the Truc Lâm pagoda in Villebon-sur-Yvette, this retired doctor specializing in gastroenterology has long been interested in Buddhist philosophy. Born in Hanoi in 1946 and arrived in France in 1962, he was a disciple of the Venerable Minh Châu, Rector of the Van Hanh Buddhist University in Saigon, and of the Venerable Thiên Châu, founder of the Truc Lâm Buddhist Institute (Bamboo Forest ) in Villebon-sur-Yvette, which he was close to for more than thirty years.