Consider how the founder of Taipei's Fa-kuang Institute of Buddhist Studies, Master Ju-hsueh, began her study of Zen. As a youth she traveled alone to Japan as an exchange student. At first she thought she would follow in her father's footsteps and study medicine.
想起台北法光佛教文化研究所的創辦人如學禪師，年輕時隻身到日本留學，原本她想要繼承父志學醫，結果，指導教授告訴她：「學醫只能救人肉身，學佛可以救人靈命。」