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Li Shutong (1880- 1942), also known as Li Xishuang and Ang Lee, was originally named with broad scientific name and double characters.
Li Shutong is a famous musician, art educator, calligrapher and drama activist, and one of the pioneers of China drama. After he returned from studying in Japan, he worked as a teacher and editor. Later, he became a monk, and his legal name was Hongyi, and his legal name was Yixian. Later, he was honored as a teacher of Hongyi F.
19 13 was employed as a music and painting teacher in Zhejiang two-level normal school (later changed to Zhejiang No.1 Normal School). 19 15, worked as a music and painting teacher at Nanjing Normal University and wrote the first school song in the history of Nanjing University.
He is a pioneer of the New Culture Movement in China, an outstanding artist, educator, thinker and innovator, an outstanding representative of the combination of traditional culture and Buddhist culture in China, the most outstanding monk in the history of modern Buddhism in China, and a well-known figure enjoying a high reputation internationally. Li Shutong, who combines poetry, ci, calligraphy, painting, seal cutting, music, drama and literature, is the pioneer of China's splendid culture and art in many fields. At the same time, it has made creative development in education, philosophy, law, Chinese characters, sociology, advertising, publishing, environment and animal and plant protection, and human fasting experiments.
He pushed the ancient calligraphy art of China to the extreme. As a monk's calligraphy, Hongyi is different from some monks and artists in history, such as Zhi Yong and Huai Su. Although they are dressed in cassock, it seems that their life is not aimed at firm Buddhist belief and sincere and practical Buddhist practice. They are just artists who have been sent to a Buddhist temple. They "madly despise the world and gain true knowledge through drunkenness", which is completely the temperament and romance of artists.
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Master Xu Yun (1840- 1959) was born in Xiangxiang, Hunan, and Quanzhou. His surname is Xiao, and his first name is Deqing. It is a great virtue of Zen to change his name to Xu Yun after 60 years old.
Master Xu Yun became a monk at the age of 19. According to Miao Lian, an old monk at Yongquan Temple in Gushan, Fuzhou, he got an ankle ring at the age of 20. At the age of 40, I made my heart go to Wutai Mountain to repay my parents' deep friendship. Burning incense from Hokkeji in Putuo Mountain, I was hungry and cold in three steps, and my heart became more and more prosperous. Three years later, I got my wish; Finally, I went to Wutai Mountain and met Manjusri Bodhisattva Jin Yan. After that, he taught in central Yunnan for nearly 20 years; At the age of 95, he returned to Caoxi to rebuild Nanhua and Zhongxing Yunmen. He has served as the abbot of Gushan in Fujian, the abbot of Nanhua in Guangdong and the abbot of Yunmen Dajue. 1953 initiated the establishment of the Chinese Buddhist Association and was elected honorary president. At that time, he was elected as a member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Zen master Xu Yun traveled all over the world all his life, with a staff, a hat and a clock. He spent his time on himself. He died on1September, 1959 12 at the age of 120, giving up wax.
As a master of modern Zen Buddhism, Master Xu Yun's main contribution to the Buddhist community is not only to restore the merits of the temple mentioned above, but also to cultivate and reserve a large number of dharma-protecting laymen and Buddhist monks for the revival of Zen Buddhism in later generations. There are more than ten descendants of the famous master Xu Yun, among whom Interpretation Cheng and Interpretation Chuanyin are the presidents of the Chinese Buddhist Association.