Master Mingshan (1914-2001), a native of Xixiang, Yancheng County, Jiangsu Province (now part of Jianhu, Jiangsu Province); he followed his mother to Buddhism since he was a child. At the age of 19, he went to Luohan Yuan in his hometown in Harvest Village He was ordained and became a monk. At the age of 20, he went to Dinghui Temple in Jiaoshan, Zhenjiang to receive full ordination. In 1933, he was admitted to the first class of the Buddhist College. During the Anti-Japanese War, Mingshan handled Buddhist association affairs and founded Buddhist seminaries in Nanyue, Hengyang and other places in Hunan. He served as the abbot of monasteries in Hengyang, Laiyang, and Ningxiang. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Dinghui Temple and served as supervisor and academic director of the Buddhist College. In 1947, he attended the Congress of the Chinese Buddhist Association and was elected as a director of the Chinese Buddhist Association. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, He successively served as the abbot of Dinghui Temple and Qixia Temple, executive director and vice president of the Buddhist Association of China; Mingshan has profound attainments in Buddhism, is good at poetry and calligraphy, and is the author of "Mingshan Collected Works"; in addition, he has "Hua Shan" "Lecture Notes on the Practical Vows of Samantabhadra by the Yan Sutra" and "Lecture Notes on the Sutra of Maitreya's Supreme Rebirth" are in circulation; he passed away on June 1, 2001.