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Abbot Shi Yongxin, local name Liu Yingcheng, was born in 1965, his hometown in Yingshang, Anhui province. He got to Shaolin Temple in 1981 and respected Abbot Xingzheng, the twenty-ninth abbot of Shaolin Temple, as his master. Abbot Xingzheng passed away in 1987 and then Shi Yongxin took over the position of director of Shaolin Temple Management Committee, comprehensively presiding over the Shaolin Temple’ s affairs. Shi Yongxin got the honor to become the abbot of Shaolin Temple in 1999. Abbot Shi Yongxin has been selected as president of the Buddhist Association of Henan Province ever since selected in July of 1998. Abbot Shi Yongxin has been selected as the president of the Buddhist Association of China ever since September of 2002. Abbot Shi Yongxin has been respectively selected as the deputy to the ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth National People’s Congress ever since March of 1998.

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Coverage

People' s Daily Online: United World Chinese Association Leadership Conference 2015 held in Kuala Lumpur

Global Times: Shaolin Temple raises China’s national flag

Chan Sayings

Getting to North America for Visit and Exchange

Getting to South America for Visit and Exchange

Temple Is a Part of Society

Not Every Monk Can Enter the Meditation Hall to Participate in Da Chan Qi

The Real Kungfu and Practice in the Shaollin is Chan Meditation

Vigorous Dharma Practice

Shaolin Monks Follow the Rules that were Set by the Founders

Our Lives as Monks Very Much Follow a Daily Routine

Photos

Shaolin Temple Welcomes the New Year

Shaolin Temple rang out the old year and rang the new year. Feb. 11, 2021 was traditional Lunar New Year’ s Eve. Shaolin monks followed Chinese tradition with thousands of years, such as discussing couplets, worshiping ancestors, staying up all night on New Year’ s Eve, and striking the bell and praying, to celebrate the Chinese New Year together with Shaolin monks.

Chan Tea Cultural Communication in Shaolin Temple

Shaolin Temple holds the Chan tea cultural communication at 9: 30 am on September 13, 2020. Mr. Cai Mei, director of the standing committee of the National People’ s Congress in Fuding city and deputy group leader of the leading group of tea industry development, protector Fang Shoulong and his wife from Baicha Mountain and others visited Shaolin Temple, and exchanged Chan tea culture with abbot and monks from Shaolin Temple.

Worship Ancestors During the Qingming Festival

Shaolin monks worshiped ancestors during the year’ s Qingming Festival. Shaolin monks went to the Pagoda Forest to sweep pagodas and worshp ancestors to remember Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the ten directions and founders of generations on Mar. 27, 2021.

Visiting Shuiyu Temple in Dengfeng to Investigate and Guide the Work

A group led by master Shi Yongxin, vice president of the Buddhist Association of China, president of the Buddhist Association of Henan Province and abbot of Shaolin Temple, visited an affiliated temple-- Shuiyu Temple in Dengfeng to investigate and guide the work, receiving a warm welcome from master Yankai, manager of the temple, as well as Buddhists and lay Buddhists.

Visiting Wangu Temple

A group led by master Shi Yongxin visited Wangu Temple to investigate and guide the work, receiving a warm welcome from master Yanzuo and monks from Wangu Temple on the afternoon of Oct. 4, 2020.

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Works

THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE STORY

THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE STORY is the first English book to provide an in-depth look at the temple's history and present culture, from its founding in the 6th century CE to the present day. Abbot Shi Yongxin who has lived and worked there for forty years provides an intimate look at the temple’s unique practices and beliefs, including martial arts, Chán Buddhism, and its traditional health and healing practices. In addition to archival pictures and documents, new photos of the Shaolin Temple were shot exclusively for this book.

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Encyclopedia of Chinese Budd...

The Encyclopedia of Chinese Buddhist Medicine is a multi-volume series of ancient literature edited together by Shi Yongxin, and professor Li Liangsong from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. The book consists of four sections including the medical theory of sutra, medicine in sutra, monks’ medical works and lay Buddhists’ medical works, which is known as “the most comprehensive literature collection of Buddhist medicine and health preservation throughout history”.

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Encyclopedia of Shaolin Temp...

Encyclopedia of Shaolin Temple follows general rules of compiling an encyclopedia in the modern era, based on the characteristics of Shaolin Temple and Shaolin culture, striving to be comprehensive and scientific in terms of selected and classified entries, knowledge structure system, ways of compilation and others. The book takes Shaolin Temple as the core and knowledge system of Shaolin culture as its basic content, and also contains the basics of Buddhism.

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My Heart My Buddha

The book was edited by master ShiYongxin, abbot of Shaolin Temple and published by Hualing Press in 2008. Master Shi Yongxin tells us in the book truth that Buddha realized and contents that Buddha preached dharma over forty nine years whose core is five words: do not be imaging things (Chinese: 别胡思乱想).

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NPC Proposals

Recommendations concerning making relevant policies and encouraging a pluralistic way of old-age care2021-10-21

The aging population in our country hit 0.25 billion people in 2014. The country makes relevant policies and governments at all levels, communities and social organizations do a lot of work about how the old people spend their later years happily and peaceful.
Some advice to restart the preparations for the “International Shaolin Federation”2021-10-21

Instructed and supported by a number of leaders of the central and provincial committee, the implement of the strategy of Shaolin culture outgoing yields impressive results.
Recommendations concerning revitalizing martial arts and implementing “Three entering” “Six entering” and “Entering the Olympic Games”2021-10-21

General secretary Xi Jinping noted: “Without the prosperity of Chinese culture there is no the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
Recommendations concerning the propagation of traditional sports and improving health2021-10-21

In recent years，all regions and related departments earnestly implement decisions and arrangements of the CPC central committee and the State Council, strengthen health education, focus on promoting environment renovation, take serious measures in hygiene and food safety, launch an extensive exercise campaign for the general public, promote lifestyle modification and other efforts, which plays an active role in improving public health.
Recommendations concerning protecting the material carrier of traditional culture2021-10-20

Tradition is the foundation and culture the vein of the nation. General secretary Xi Jinping noted in the book of the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation Should Carry Forward Excellent Traditional Culture: “The strength of a country and a nation is always propped by the prosperity of culture.”
Some advice to boost cultural confidence and non-governmental organizations playing an active role in the strategy of Chinese culture outgoing2021-10-20

President Xi noted: “ The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is subject to the prosperity of Chinese culture.” Culture as soft power gradually becomes an improtant aspect of the core competence of all countries and a symbol of comprehensive national strength.
Some suggestions on the strategy of rural revitalization2021-10-20

Rural revitalization benefits the people, future generations and the nation. The current discussion on rural revitalization is particularly significant, giving people an opportunity to reconsider the present mainstream lifestyle and return to our traditional Chinese cultural.

Dharma Talks

Right Effort and Right Mindfulness2024-01-17

Right effort is closely associated with right mindfulness. The practice of mindfulness is important in Buddhism. The Buddha said that mindfulness is the one way to achieve the end of suffering. Mindfulness can be developed by being constantly aware of four particular aspects. There are the application of mindfulness with regard to the body (body postures, breathing and so forth), feelings (whether pleasant, unpleasant or neutral); mind (whether the mind is greedy or not, angry, dispersed or deluded or not); and mind objects (whether there are mental hindrances to concentration, the Four Noble Truths, and so on). Mindfulness is essential even in our daily life in which we act in full awareness of our actions, feelings and thoughts as well as that of our environment. The mind should always be clear and attentive rather than distracted and clouded.
The Noble Eightfold Path--The Middle Way2024-01-17

This is the path for leading a religious life without going to extremes. An outstanding aspect of the Buddha’s Teaching is the adoption of the Eightfold Path as a noble way of life. Another name for the Eightfold Path is the Middle Path. The Buddha advised His followers to follow this Path so as to avoid the extremes of sensual pleasures and self-mortification. The Middle Path is a righteous way of life which does not advocate the acceptance of decrees given by someone outside oneself. A person practices the Middle Path, the guide for moral conduct, not out of fear of any super-natural agency, but out of the intrinsic value in following such an action. He chooses this self-imposed discipline for a definite end in view: self-purification. The Middle Path is a planned course of inward culture and progress. A person can make real progress in righteousness and insight by following this path, and not by engaging in external worship and prayers. According to the Buddha, anyone who lives in accordance with the Dharma will be guided and protected by that very law. When a person lives according to Dharma, he will also be living in harmony with the universal law. Every Buddhist is encouraged to mould his life according to the Noble Eightfold Path as taught by the Buddha. He who adjusts his life according to this noble way of living will be free from miseries and calamities both in this lifetime and hereafter. He will also be able to develop this mind by restraining from evil and observing morality.
Could you please say something about the clothing of monks?2023-12-21

According to the Buddhist rules, monks should possess three robes: a large, a medium and a small. The small one, made of five stripes of cloth, known as Five-strip Robe in China, is for doing manual and cleaning work. The medium one, made of seven pieces of cloth, commonly called Seven-strip Robe in China, is the normal form of dress.
Were the Buddhist texts written by Sakyamuni himself?2023-12-21

No, they were recited and recorded by his disciples after the Buddha’s death. In the year of the Buddha’s Parinibbana, his five hundred disciples headed by Ven. Mahakassapa held an assembly at Saptaparna Cave near Rajagaha to compile and edit the Buddha’s teachings for posterity. At the assembly Ven. Ananda recited the Suttas preached by the Buddha, Ven. Upali recited the Vinaya established by the Buddha, and Ven. Mahakassapa recited, and latter supplemented, the Abhidamma which is an exposition and study of the Buddhist creeds. The Sutta, Vinaya and Abhidamma comprise Tipitaka. The word Pitaka originally meant basket for containing things. The compilation of Sutta, Vinaya and Abhidamma into Tipitaka is something like the designation of Jing (classics), Shi (history), Zi (academic schools) and Ji (miscellany) as the “Four Treatures” in China. This Buddhist school council was termed the First Samgiti. Samgiti is generally rendered as “Jieji” in Chinese, while its original meaning in Sanskrit or Pali is “sangha meeting”. The ancient Chinese translators used the word “Jieji” to mean “recital”, which implies both the collection of Dhamma, and the assembly of people. The Tipitaka was not written down at that time, so it was passed on by oral recital. (From Essentials of Buddhism: Questions and Answers)
Please tell us more of features of Mahayana Buddhism.2023-12-21

Next, I will talk about the theory of the empty nature (sunnata) of all dhammas, which follows from the notion of Dependent Origination. It holds that all dhammas are simply the cooperation of relative causes and conditions. Therefore, there is no substance in them. In other words, all dhammas are nothing but the phenomena of cooperation of causes and conditions. Apart from phenomena there is no noumenon as their dominator. When I said previously that “There is no ego within all dhammas”, I was speaking of the absence of “self” (atta) of human beings. And now I add the absence of self of all dhammas. The former is to deny self in human beings, and prove “non-substantiality in beings”, while the latter is to deny the self in dhammas, and prove “non-substantiality in dhammas”. (From Essentials of Buddhism: Questions and Answers)
In order to benefit the public welfare and to identify with others, is it necessary for a bodhisatta to acquire various kinds of worldly knowledge?2023-12-21

For the interest of human beings, it is necessary for a bodhisatta to study extensively and to be well informed. Buddhism requires bodhisatta aspirants to learn the Five Vidya (S. vijja, meaning knowledge), these are: ⑴ Sabda-vidya, viz. phonology and philogy; ⑵ Silpakarma-vidya, viz. all technology, techniques, crafts, arithmetic, calendar, etc.; ⑶ Cikitsa-vidya, viz. medical science and pharmacology; ⑷ Hetu-vidya, viz. logic; ⑸ Adhyatma-vidya, viz. Buddhist studies. The five vidyas must be mastered by scholars. “To be broadly erudite, and sincerely compassionate” is the requirement for bodhisattahood. Mahayana Buddhism particularly calls for learning whatever is difficult to learn, and all that should be learned. (From Essentials of Buddhism: Questions and Answers)
What are the four All-embracing Virtues (cattar samgaha-vatthuni)?2023-12-21

Samgaha-vatthu is the qualities that ensure public unity. The first is liberality or charity (Dana). The second, kindly speech (Peyyavajja), is to speak kind words in a kind manner. The third, beneficial conduct (Atthacariya), means to serve the public welfare. The fourth, equality (Samanattata), is to live the same life as the ordinary people. These four are the means whereby Bodhisattas carry out their work among human beings.

Coverage

Chan Sayings

Photos

Works

THE SHAOLIN TEMPLE STORY

Encyclopedia of Chinese Budd...

Encyclopedia of Shaolin Temp...

My Heart My Buddha

NPC Proposals

Recommendations concerning making relevant policies and encouraging a pluralistic way of old-age care2021-10-21

The aging population in our country hit 0.25 billion people in 2014. The country makes relevant policies and governments at all levels, communities and social organizations do a lot of work about how the old people spend their later years happily and peaceful.

Some advice to restart the preparations for the “International Shaolin Federation”2021-10-21

Instructed and supported by a number of leaders of the central and provincial committee, the implement of the strategy of Shaolin culture outgoing yields impressive results.

Recommendations concerning revitalizing martial arts and implementing “Three entering” “Six entering” and “Entering the Olympic Games”2021-10-21

General secretary Xi Jinping noted: “Without the prosperity of Chinese culture there is no the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”

Recommendations concerning the propagation of traditional sports and improving health2021-10-21

Recommendations concerning protecting the material carrier of traditional culture2021-10-20

Some advice to boost cultural confidence and non-governmental organizations playing an active role in the strategy of Chinese culture outgoing2021-10-20

President Xi noted: “ The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is subject to the prosperity of Chinese culture.” Culture as soft power gradually becomes an improtant aspect of the core competence of all countries and a symbol of comprehensive national strength.

Some suggestions on the strategy of rural revitalization2021-10-20

Rural revitalization benefits the people, future generations and the nation. The current discussion on rural revitalization is particularly significant, giving people an opportunity to reconsider the present mainstream lifestyle and return to our traditional Chinese cultural.

Dharma Talks

Right Effort and Right Mindfulness2024-01-17

The Noble Eightfold Path--The Middle Way2024-01-17

Could you please say something about the clothing of monks?2023-12-21

Were the Buddhist texts written by Sakyamuni himself?2023-12-21

Please tell us more of features of Mahayana Buddhism.2023-12-21

In order to benefit the public welfare and to identify with others, is it necessary for a bodhisatta to acquire various kinds of worldly knowledge?2023-12-21

What are the four All-embracing Virtues (cattar samgaha-vatthuni)?2023-12-21