Master Ke Cheng was the fourth abbot of the monastery. His dharma name was Da Gao, from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu in the Qing dynasty (1901), when he was twelve years old, he went to the Helin Temple in the village to ask for ordination without informing his parents. His parents tried in vain to persuade him to give up his attempt. However, Master Ke Cheng persisted in his will. When his parents understood his insistence, they could do nothing but agree him to be ordained in the Lingjiu Temple in his own town. In 1905, he went to Mt. Baohua to follow Master Hao Jing to attain full ordination (upasampad). Thereupon, he was diligent in his study of Buddhist sutras, strict in his observance of disciplines and constant in his practice. In the spring of 1912, he went to study in the Jiangtian Monastery in Zhenjiang. In the following five years, he took charge of every main post in succession. Then, he was given dharma in the Xianglin Monastery, Nanjing and regarded highly by Masters Ji Nan and Mi Xiu. In the autumn of 1917, Master Hong Fa passed away and Master Ke Cheng received order to succeed him as the abbot of the Jade Buddha Temple. With the help of the elder noble-minded monks as Masters Ye Kai and Ji Nan, he got a piece of land 11.6 mu (one mu equals to 1/15 hectare) on the Binlang Road ( Anyuan Road today), where today’s Jade Buddha Monastery lies. A new temple was started in 1918 and finished six years later. Then Jade Buddha Temple was renamed as the Jade Buddha Chan Monastery. In 1929, Master Ke Cheng initiated China Buddhist Society in Shanghai together with Buddhists in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces and was an executive member. In June of the same year, he was elected as an executive member of Shanghai Buddhist Society.