While you are wandering in the Jade Buddha Monastery, you can always feel the motto of Abbot Jue Xing’s running the monastery, which is “to learn from the traditions and correspond with the society”. In the sounds of morning bells and evening drums, you can read in the Hong Yi Library and followers can also apply a library card to borrow books from the library. You might be surprised to see that some masters in the editor office are using the computers skillfully to edit the magazine of the Jade Buddha Monastery，Jue Qun, which has reached a circulation of 5000 copies…

The traditional, aged monastery is filled with a current and fresh flavor. And we can really get the idea through that so much extols has been left here by countless famous people home and abroad.

Buddhism also should win honor for our country

As a young religious leader, Master Jue Xing is out of any question a spotlight in international communications. We can easily see him active in a lot of diplomatic and crucial occasions.

On July 1, 1998, Medeleine Albright, the former U.S Secretary of State, who was with American President Clinton to visit China, had a talk with the representatives of the five religious sects in the Guest House of Yu Yuan Garden in Shanghai.

Albright initiated his speech with these words, “I can not lie to say that I haven’t any idea about China. But all the knowledge about China was acquired indirectly or heard from others or got from the news reports. This time I really want to see China with my own eyes and hear China with my own ears. I really want to know the real China through the conversation with you.”