In the Jizo Temple of Xuanzang Temple in Jiuhuashan Park, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, a netizen recently discovered that a row of longevity tablets was actually enshrining war criminals of the Japanese invaders, which aroused the attention of the outside world. In response to this, the Nanjing municipal authorities responded that a special work class has been quickly set up to investigate and deal with it. It is reported that the abbot of the temple has been replaced, and a number of officials have been dismissed or otherwise punished. It is worth noting that the abbot who was replaced by fax had previously planned to make two anti-Japanese films.
“Jimu News” reported that a netizen recently broke the news that in the Tibetan Temple of Xuanzang Temple in Jiuhuashan Park in Nanjing, a row of longevity tablets actually enshrined the Japanese war criminals who invaded China. In the early morning of July 22, the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau of Xuanwu District, Nanjing responded that it would investigate the behaviors that hurt ethnic feelings.
After the incident, the Nanjing Municipal Government quickly set up a special work class to investigate, and decided to instruct the Xuanwu District Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau to replace the main person in charge of the Xuanzang Temple by fax (commonly known as Li Yijiang); The relevant departments immediately rectified it. In addition, Hu Yuanyuan, director of the Bureau of Religious Affairs, was dismissed, and Su Yuhong, director of the Municipal Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, was admonished, and Ji Qin, the deputy director, was also suspended for inspection.
According to public information, Master Fax, a native of Yingshang, Anhui Province, was born in May 1968, with the legal name Zhenghong, commonly known as Li Yijiang, ordained at Qixia Temple in September 1987 and ordained at Tianning Temple in Changzhou in October 1990. Now he is the abbot of Nanjing Xuanzang Temple, Lishui Wuxiang Temple, and Siyang Tianhou Palace, a member of the Nanjing Municipal Political Consultative Conference, a director of the Jiangsu Buddhist Association, a member of the Standing Committee of the Nanjing Youth Federation, and the vice president of the Nanjing Buddhist Association.
It is understood that Master Faxie studied at the Qixiashan Branch of the Buddhist Academy of China in 1988, and then studied history, Chinese, Buddhist studies, foreign languages and other subjects in the History Department, Chinese Department, and Religious Studies Department of Nanjing University. A monk at the university and the first monk in China to create a film. Master Faxian has also edited books such as “Poems on Green Window”, “Xuanzang and Nanjing Xuanzang Temple”, “Starting from the Heart”, “Buddha’s Health Technique”, “Journey to the Holy Land: Blessing the Olympics” and other books.
It is worth noting that in the early winter of 1942, the Japanese army dug a stone letter at the Sanzang Pagoda site of Dabaoen Temple in Yuhuatai. The letter enshrined the parietal bone relic of Master Xuanzang, and recorded the Tang Dynasty monk Xuanzang’s parietal bone relic for burial in Nanjing. The Japanese army delusionally wanted to take it for themselves. Under the protest of the Nanjing people, the Japanese army returned some of the parietal bone relics of Master Xuanzang to the Nanjing people. In 2003, the Nanjing Xuanwu District Government and the District Construction Bureau rebuilt the temple in Xiaojiuhua Mountain, namely Xuanzang Temple, which is managed by the abbot of Qixia Ancient Temple Supervisor Fax Master.
Regarding the above historical events, in 2005, Master Faxian served as the producer and screenwriter, and adapted it into the film “Qixia Temple 1937”, and also prepared for the filming of the film “Sanzang Pagoda 1942” and other patriotic films. Ironically, the monastery hosted by Master Faxian enshrines the tablets of war criminals of the Japanese invaders. His behavior is so “split” that it is incomprehensible.
