The Period since the Founding of the Country

Publish Date:2021-07-03

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The government allocated funds to renovate Shaolin Temple after Dengfeng’ s liberation in 1948. The country’ s religious policy was successively restored and promulgated after the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee. In abbot Xingzheng’ s care and protection, Buddhist activities of Shaolin Temple were restored, temple renovation was gradually launched and Shaolin Kungfu began drilling. Master Shi Yongxin comprehensively presided over Shaolin Temple’ s affairs after abbot Xingzheng’ death in 1987.


Master Shi Yongxin has been vice president of the Buddhist Association of China ever since September 2002, and president of the Buddhist Association of Henan Province since July 1998. He had been successively elected as the deputy to the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th National People’ s Congress since 1998.


In the leadership of abbot Shi Yongxin over 30 years, Shaolin Temple has achieved fruitful results in terms of boosting Buddhism and benefiting beings as well as cultural exchanges: cultivate monastic talents with right belief and right conduct; rebuild or renovate halls and restore the magnificence of Shaolin Temple; build Shaolin Kungfu monk corps going abroad and propagating Shaolin culture; restore the Shaolin Pharmacy Bureau to benefit beings. Shaolin Temple has been synonymous with China while Shaolin Kungfu becomes an import window that countries from all over the world know China.


Meantime Shaolin Temple also inherits and carries forward its own unique fine tradition: restore the Meditation Hall, hold Chan Qi each year and Shaolin Chan Inquiries for many years, host academic seminar on the science of Shaolin and Shaolin culture, restore the the Three Ordination Platforms Precept Transmission Ceremony; hold the China summit forum of Buddhist medicine each year; collect and arrange ancient rare books, enrich collection of books at the Sutra-keeping Pavilion, and also edit and publish many books successively; hold the Shaolin culture festival or Shaolin Temple Day in Europe and North America and so on. Abbot Yongxin had given special lectures on culture at Harvard University, Stanford University, Oxford University and other world famous universities. It was praised as the world-renowned Shaolin Temple by General Secretary Xi Jinping in 2013.


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