According to Baidu Encyclopedia, Xueyuan Temple in Yixing is the ancestral home of Master Xingyun, the founder of Foguang Mountain in Taiwan Province Province, and Bichuni in Foguang Mountain in Taiwan Province Province is the best female monk group in the world. Therefore, the abbots in the academy are all women, so now only female students are recruited.
Yixing Academy, located in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, is a Zen Linjizong Dojo. During the reign of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was founded by Zen Master Zhining with a history of about 700 years.