Venerable Thich Tri Sieu was born in 1962 in Saigon, Viet Nam. He became buddhist monk in 1985 and received the complete ordination (bhikshu) in the Mahayana tradition in 1987 from the Most Ven. Thich Huyen-Vi, the Abbot of Linh Son Monastery in Joinville-le-Pont, Paris.