2022年3月9日亥时
泰州籍高僧
台湾世界佛教僧伽会会长
台湾中国佛教会名誉理事长
了中长老
于台北善导寺安详示寂
得知了中长老圆寂的消息, Jiangsu Provincial Buddhist Association Vice President, Nanshan Temple Abbot Dachu Dachu wrote an elegiac couplet:
Liberation in a moment and repaying Shandao Temple’s kindness and compassion The monks’ association cultivates outstanding talents.
made friends with the elders for more than 30 years, director of the Chinese Religious Society , scholar Fan Guanlan wrote an elegiac couplet to mourn the eternal master:
first visited the benevolent face of Shanghai Hongqiao for more than 30 years. The teaching teacher is like a sea showing that the appearance is gone. Taipei Shandao lost his love for a moment.
Taizhou eminent monk became a middle elder
became a middle elder. His common name was Zhou Zhiqiang. He was born in Xiaozhuang Village, Tangwan, Taizhou (now Taizhou) in 1932. Fenghuang Street, Hailing District). At the age of 9, he became a monk in Mazhuang Fahua Temple (now Taizhou Fahua Temple) located in Xiahe, Beimen, Taizhou. He studied in Mazhuang until he was 11 years old. Studied at Guangxiao Temple Buddhist College in Taizhou until graduation.
In 1947, he was fully ordained in Gulin Temple in Nanjing, and studied in Qixia Buddhist College in Nanjing and Jing'an Buddhist College in Shanghai. In 1949, he went to Taiwan and taught at Fazang Temple in Yangmingshan.
At the end of the 1940s, he traveled to Fusang in the Middle East, studied abroad in Rissho University in Tokyo, Japan for eight years, obtained a master's degree in literature, and completed a doctoral course.
served successively as the academic affairs director of Taiwan Taixu Buddhist Academy, the abbot of Taipei Huayan Lotus Society , and the dean of Fazang Buddhist Academy in 1967; since 1977, he has served as the secretary-general of the Chinese Buddhist Association in Taiwan; in 1987, he was hired as the first Buddhist temple in Taipei Abbot of Shandao Temple; founded Xuanzang University in 1988, and personally served as the chairman; at the seventh meeting of the Buddhist Sangha Association held in Taipei in 2000, he was elected as the president and was honored as "the leader of the monks in the world". Respect".
