Part One — Official Compilation
More than thirty years ago, in 1991, at the age of 23, young, inquisitive, and filled with a passion for life, Master Yang Ning embarked on her path to Buddhahood.
She would later share this experience in her written account, Water Flows, Flowers Bloom, and her novel, The Mind of the Dharma Realm. Written in part to introduce young minds to the Buddha’s teachings, The Mind of the Dharma Realm also preserves, in its second half, authentic diary entries from her spiritual journey and solitary retreats, including a forty-nine-day retreat at Da Lingyan Temple, her journey and spiritual practice in Tibet, and a hundred-day solitary retreat in the Zhongnan Mountains.
Her path unfolded in ways that seemed nothing short of miraculous.
Over the decades, she immersed herself in deep meditation and made pilgrimages to the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains. Along the way, she encountered countless blessings, received unexpected guidance, and witnessed events that seemed almost impossible. Yet her journey was not without its valleys. She endured profound hardships and trials, and once even found herself on the brink of death.
Today, those memories have all melted into laughter. Looking back at her younger self, she smiles at all the things she once put herself through.
Someone once asked her, “Of all the insights you have gained, which is the most valuable to share?”
She replied:
“On the path of practice, the most powerful weapon is compassion. Whenever I was driven to the brink of despair, it was the spontaneous arising of compassion that saved me. Throughout the entire Dharma realm, nothing surpasses compassion.”
For ten years, from 2012 to 2022, Master Yang Ning devoted herself to sharing the timeless wisdom of Shakyamuni Buddha. Through a direct, contemporary approach, she sought to bridge the ancient wisdom with the realities of modern life.
Although she is currently in retreat, her practical path to realization remains accessible through an archive of ten thousand recorded Dharma teachings on http://www.ziguijia.com.
In her view, among all the wisdom preserved throughout human civilization, the wisdom of Shakyamuni Buddha stands supreme, and the Buddhadharma offers the most complete explanation of the truth. Embodying what she sees as the sole purpose of a Buddha’s appearance in this world, her mission is to open the door to the Buddha’s wisdom, to reveal it, to awaken all living beings to it, and to enable them to enter into it.
To discover more of her wisdom and teachings, please visit the Ziguijia official website. http://www.ziguijia.com
Part Two — Supplementary Compilation
While Master Yang Ning has not written a formal autobiography, Water Flows, Flowers Bloom offers a partial account of her personal journey, covering a major turning point on her spiritual path.
Born in 1968, Master Yang Ning began her spiritual practice in 1991, at the age of 23. During a deep state of meditation, she met her master and received a profound inner transmission: “Observe that the mind itself is Buddha.” She experienced an immediate awakening.
Following this, she spent years in practical realization, undergoing multiple solitary retreats. At the height of her fifteen-year practice, she contracted pneumonia in Tibet, which led to severe bronchial adhesions (#22695). She was hospitalized for seven to eight months, underwent several surgeries, and received five critical condition notices. Subsequently, she spent many months in recovery and treatment.
In truth, this major illness became the very catalyst for her Buddhahood (#51328). In her videos, she explained that a single ‘discriminatory thought’ caused ‘toxic energy to invade her lungs (#21782).’
Editor's rendering: This relates to the section in The Star Road where Dabei casted her body selflessly into a toxic abyss in another dimension. This profound act caused the Water of Merit to overflow.
She shared that she focused solely on the year 2012, performing specific spiritual tasks to avert a global catastrophe tied to the Mayan prophecies. At the age of 44, in 2012, she began spreading the Dharma in Zhuhai, Guangdong. For the next decade, until 2022, thousands of her teachings were made available on the Zi Gui Jia website. During this time, she interacted with people in chat rooms to offer Dharma guidance as well as comfort and healing. In her spontaneous Dharma teachings, she focused primarily on pointing the direct path. She also shared her own realizations, alongside stories of saving countless beings and averting calamities across all dimensions. Currently, she is in retreat at the age of 58 in 2026.
Many disciples with a karmic affinity feel a deep bond with her as an embodiment of Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin Bodhisattva). They experience her presence and support whenever and wherever needed—whether in dreams, deep meditation, or any life circumstance.
- Compiled from videos and books by Chong Peng, a disciple with Bodhi resolve (October 2026)
Presented here are Master Yang Ning’s compassionate blessings and exhortations: to leave no being behind on the path to liberation.
I dedicate all the merit of my practice, my teachings, and my acts of compassion to you. May you live in peace, health, happiness, and joy—and may you be liberated from the cycle of rebirth.
It is because of my continuous intention that you sit beside me today. Every intention was born of love, and it is through that love that you have found me in this lifetime.
You are me, and I am you—at our core, we are one. I have watched you journey through life after life, through hardship after hardship. In the places you cannot see, I have quietly watched over you. I understand every one of your silent struggles. Night after night, I have guided and accompanied you in dreams, witnessing your growth, step by step. Though you cannot see me, I know everything about you. May you awaken soon—and when you do, I will return.
If I attain enlightenment, I will certainly be by your side to protect you—regardless of whether you are near me, and regardless of whether we can talk to each other. If you believe this, I am already there.
Vows of Master Yang Ning
- May I attain unsurpassed, perfect enlightenment at an early date. If I become a Buddha, may every sentient being bound by pain, affliction, and difficult circumstances, upon thinking of my name, immediately feel inexhaustible warmth and strength, overcome every affliction, hardship, and demonic force, and emerge from desperate situations.
- If I become a Buddha, may every sentient being who wishes to attain ultimate liberation through the Buddhadharma, upon hearing my name, immediately give rise to right faith and right thought, and at once experience a sudden radiance of mind, and seeing one’s true nature.
- If I become a Buddha, may every woman suffering from love or emotional entanglements, upon seeing any book, image, object, belonging, spiritual family, or anything else in the Saha world connected with me, instantly receive within her heart boundless peace and forbearance.
- If I become a Buddha, may every person in the Saha world who sincerely does good deeds and gives rise to wholesome intentions, regardless of the depth of his or her foundations, encounter me in samadhi, in dreams, or in moments of unexpected stillness, and may I personally teach and guide that person toward the path to Buddhahood through all kinds of skillful means.
- If I become a Buddha, may every sentient being who cultivates the true Dharma, by reciting and upholding my name, be able to transform adverse conditions around them into favorable ones, become filled with Dharma joy, and receive unceasing supportive conditions on the path toward spiritual accomplishment.
Text of Gratitude
Throughout the cycle of rebirth over lifetime after lifetime, every thought I have had was for my own sake and for the sake of my loved ones. I have given very little to sentient beings and to this world, yet I have received much from this world. I was never satisfied, nor did I ever understand how to repay what I received. Now I give thanks, and I give thanks for every blessing I have received. From this day forward, I vow to stay far from evil dharmas and unwholesome thoughts, to diligently cultivate the noble path, to widely practice good deeds, to form many wholesome affinities, and to dedicate the merit of my cultivation to my loved ones throughout lifetime after lifetime, and to all sentient beings. May sentient beings soon be freed from the many sufferings and tribulations, and from the cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death.
Text of Repentance
Throughout the cycle of rebirth over lifetime after lifetime, whether intentionally or unintentionally, I have harmed very many sentient beings.
Because of my own greed, anger, and ignorance, I have created all kinds of evil causes that lead to downfall. Now, before the Buddha, with utmost sincerity and single-pointed heart, I repent and confess. May sentient beings forgive me and transform the adverse karmic ties between us into wholesome ties. I will repay you through the merit I continuously establish.
May all Dharma protectors not abandon me because my karmic obstacles are heavy, but instead help me in this very life to cultivate the true Dharma smoothly, attain Buddhahood soon, and benefit sentient beings throughout the three realms.
Text of Dedication of Merit
With utmost sincerity, I bow in homage to our Fundamental Teacher, Buddha Shakyamuni!
With utmost sincerity, I bow in homage to Amitabha Buddha!
May all the merits from our sharing the Dharma, listening to the Dharma, and benefiting ourselves and others,
be dedicated to sentient beings across the three realms and six paths,
be dedicated to all human beings who have experienced harm by epidemics,
be dedicated to all sentient beings harmed by human habits, desires, and ignorance.
May sentient beings be universally illuminated by the light of merit of all Buddhas;
May all sentient beings receive the deliverance of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas;
May all beings who have been harmed be joyfully liberated from fear, hatred, and the wish for revenge;
May all humanity believe in cause and effect, cease evil, cultivate goodness, and become complete in merit and virtue;
May all humanity break free from bad habits, purify body, speech, and mind, and bring forth wholesome karmic results;
May there be no epidemics, wars, earthquakes, floods, fires, or disasters in the human world;
May all sentient beings live in peace, health, happiness, and joy;
May all sentient beings in the Saha world believe what the Buddha taught and soon attain the great freedom of life;
May all sentient beings who vow to be reborn in the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss have their wishes smoothly fulfilled.
Namo Fundamental Teacher Buddha Shakyamuni!
Namo Amitabha Buddha!