[3] Hsin Tao was born as Yang Hsiao-sheng (楊小生) in 1948 in Laikan Village, Laidaoshan Region, Lashio, Myanmar, to ethnic Chinese parents from the Yunnan province in China.

Yang began to chant the Great Compassion Mantra, reciting the Universal Gate Chapter of the Lotus Sutra and reading Buddha's life stories.

In 1968 he received a formal order of discharge from the army and a long period of short-lived, temp jobs followed when he earned his living as a handyman, a delivery boy, a tea-factory worker, even a grocery clerk selling rice.

[4]: 68–71 On September 19 of the lunar calendar in 1973 which coincided with the Renunciation Day of Bodhisattva Guanyin, Yang was shaved to become a monk with the blessing of Master Hsing Yun of the Fo Guang Shan Monastery .

[4]: 76–82 Under an arrangement facilitated by Hsing Yun, Hsin Tao went to the Lei Yin Temple in Yi-Lan for practice in retreat in late February 1975.

[4]: 83–88 In 1979, Hsin Tao relocated his place of stay for the practice of solitary meditation to the mountain slope next to the Long Tan Lake (Chinese:龍潭湖 ) in Yi-Lan.

On September 21 that coincided with the lunar Moon Festival that year, a final relocation saw the site change to the Fa-Hwa Cave (Chinese: 法華洞) on the premises where the LJM is now located.

The name of the temple is "Wu Sheng Monastery" (Chinese: 無生道場), to promote Buddha's teachings and social and cultural activities for educational purposes.

After more than a decade of dedicated work, the MWR was inaugurated on November 9, 2001, with its Opening Date officially marked as the LJM World Religions’ Day of Harmony.

[4]: 238–242 In 1996, Hsin Tao visited Turkey and Israel to meet with religious representatives of Islam, Judaism, and the Bahá'í Faith and delivered speeches.

[4]: 225–226 In 1999, Hsin Tao was invited to attend the third Parliament of the World's Religions (PoWR) in Capetown, South Africa, for the first time and delivered two speeches, "Spiritual Challenges Facing the New Millennium" and "Buddhism in the 21st Century".

From there onwards and over the span of two decades, the interfaith dialogue has been going on in European, Asian, and African metropolises including Jakarta, Paris, Teheran, Barcelona, Morocco, Beijing and Taipei.

Hsin Tao instructed the LJM to co-work and curate the sixth International Symposium on Buddhist-Christian Dialogue with the theme of "Buddhists and Christians Walk Together Side-by-Side to Stop Violence" the same year.

For followers in the general public in 2014, the LJM launched the four-phase Buddhist education based on interpreting Buddha’s teachings with Hsin Tao's Dharma realization.