The eighth abbot of the monastery was Master Wei Yi from Nantong in Jiangsu Province and his alias Cheng San. When he was eleven, he followed Master Mo Zhi in the Zhunti Temple of Langshan to be a monk, practicing Chan and drawing. In 1925, he was given his full ordination by Master De Jun in the Dinghui Monastery of Jiaoshan and stayed there to study Pure Land. In 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, which spread all over the country rapidly. At the moment of life and death for Chinese, the patriotic monks and nuns devoted themselves to the national salvation movement together with the people of the whole country. In 1938, Japanese occupied Nantong. Unendurable of Japanese cruelty, a large number of people, old and young, men and women, had to leave their hometown. Master Wei Yi and others set up a refugee asylum in the Guanyin Temple of Shigang to vesettle homeless people. He was invited to Shanghai to be the abbot of the Dasheng Temple of the Hongkou District in 1939. He was engaged as a drawing teacher in Shanghai Buddhist College in 1942. He took the office of supervisor of Monastery’s Affairs and manager of the Jade Buddha Monastery successively, and became the abbot of the monastery in January, 1947. During his three-year tenure, he put his heart and soul into the monastery’s affairs, scoring outstanding achievements. He quitted the office in 1949 and passed away in April, 1963.