After the concert, Master Jue Xing declared that Jade Buddha Monastery would donate 2 million yuan to Shanghai Charity Foundation in commemoration and inheritance of Master Zhen Chan’s persistent spirit of pity and compassion and set up the “Master Zhen Chan Fund for Assistance to People in Poverty and Difficulty”. Master Jue Xing, the young abbot of the Jade Buddha Monastery, one of China’s well-known Buddhist monasteries, showed himself in a public activity once again. The 31 year-old Jue Xing surely attracted public interest and attention.

He Comes from the Bohai Gulf

Jue Xing was born in May 1970 in a family devoted to Buddhist belief on the Bohai Gulf of Huludao City, Liaoning Province. Because his grandmother burnt incense and worshipped Buddha every day, Jue Xing, a child, always followed his grandmother and did the same. Up to now, Jue Xing can still remember the day his grandmother took him to worship Buddha in Shanghai Jade Buddha Monastery after a long journey. On that day, Masters Neng Yi, Guang Xing and other old ones in the monastery showed special interest in little Jue Xing, touched his ears and held his hands and asked him whether he would like to be a monk. Especially after he saw the perfect glorious and solemn jade Buddha, a vague idea to be a monk in the Jade Buddha Monastery haunted him.

After return to Huludao City, Jue Xing was no longer satisfied with kowtow and worshipping Buddhas, and he became interested in the study of Buddhism.