FO GUANG SHAN (MALAYSIA)

Q : Who is the founder of Fo Guang Shan

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Jiangdu, Jiangsu, China, born in 1927. When he was young, he was poor and dropped out of school. Because his parents were busy with housework, he grew up with his grandmother for a long time. After the Sino-Japanese war at Lugou Bridge, his father died in the war in 1938. He and his mother searched for his father. The actual ancestral home is Dajue Temple, Yixing, Jiangsu. Graduated from Jiaoshan Buddhist College in 1947, during which time he went through a complete Buddhist education in the jungle, including Zongxia, Jiaoxia, and Lixia. After that, he applied to be the principal of Baita National Primary School, the editor-in-chief of "Nur Tao Monthly", and the abbot of Huazang Temple in Nanjing.

The master has been a monk for more than 80 years and has established more than 300 monasteries around the world, such as Xilai Temple in the United States, Nantian Temple in Australia, Nanhua Temple in Africa, and Rulai Temple in Brazil, all of which are the largest local temples. In addition, 16 Buddhist colleges, 25 art galleries, libraries, publishing houses, bookstores, 50 "Yunshui Shufang" mobile libraries, more than 50 Chinese schools, and Zhiguang Commerce and Industry, Pumen Middle School, Juntou Primary and secondary schools, Junyi primary and secondary schools and many kindergartens, etc. And successively founded Xilai University in the United States, Nanhua University in Taiwan, Foguang University, Nantian University in Australia and Guangming University in the Philippines.

Since 1970, he has successively established Nursery Homes, Foguang Jingshe, and Charity Foundation, set up Renai Home, Yunshui Hospital, Foguang Clinic, and Yunshui Smart Car, assisted Kaohsiung County Government to set up apartments for the elderly, and donated Foguang middle and primary schools in the mainland. He has dozens of Foguang hospitals and donated wheelchairs and modular houses around the world, engaged in emergency rescue, childcare and elderly care, and helping the weak and the poor.