Introduction
Interview

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Devotion of His Heart and Soul to People and Buddhism
------ Interview with Master Jue Xing, Abbot of the Jade Buddha Monastery

 

When he entered into the high school, he began to understand that although Buddhist teachings and Buddhist culture were imported from outside, Buddhism was different from the advantageous modern invasion of western culture. Buddhism did not replace or assume a presumptuous position in Chinese culture, but to correspond and mix with Chinese native culture, and gradually assimilated Chinese culture and became an inseparable part of it. It was in the early 1980s and just after ten years of turmoil and nightmare when throughout the whole country too many monasteries waited to be revitalized.

In this time, the young Jue Xing in face of the brownish Bohai looked into south and thought about the Jade Buddha Monastery in Shanghai on the coast of the East Sea. The young Jue Xing made his first and also the last decision: to be a monk in the Jade Buddha Monastery. That happened in the spring of 1985.

Soon Master Zhen Chan, abbot of the Jade Buddha Monastery received a letter from the young Jue Xing. And the master who survived all hardships was moved by the enlightenment of the young Jue Xing and answered the letter personally to express his acceptance of his conversion into Buddhism.

In February 1985, the young Jue Xing fulfilled his wish and became a monk in the Jade Buddha monastery and lived a monastic life of evening drum and morning bell.

Although the Jade Buddha Monastery was in the center of the city, the young Jue Xing was absorbed in the Buddhist culture, whose souls are compassionate, loving-kind, joyful and equanimous, willing to save sentient beings without discrimination.

 

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