Born into a poor village in Lashio in a war-torn Myanmar in 1948, Dharma Master Hsin Tao became a war orphan at four and was taken in by guerrilla forces at nine as their youngest child-soldier. Fierce combat and the cruelty of war thus marred his early life and the matter of life and death, weighed upon him, a great mystery. This feeling remained with him until the day he witnessed a miracle: an Arhat flew across a vast body of water. The seed of determination was thus planted in him to follow his calling and walk the path of the Buddha.
