Yifa
Yifa | |
|---|---|
依法 | |
 Yifa in 2008 | |
| Title | Venerable |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) Taiwan |
| Education | National Taiwan University (LLB) University of Hawaiʻi (MA) Yale University (PhD) |
| Website | www.woodenfish.org |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Senior posting | |
| Teacher | Hsing Yun |
Yifa (Chinese: 依法; born 1959) is a Taiwanese lawyer, theologian, and writer who is the founder of the Woodenfish Foundation. She is a nun ordained in 1979 by Fo Guang Shan, a Buddhist organization in Taiwan. She served as a department head and dean of University of the West during her tenure at the college.