Grand Master Shi Yongxin

Grand master Shi Yongxin was born in 1965 in Yingshang , Anhui province, with the birth name Liu Yingcheng. Now he is the vice director of China Buddhist Association, director of Hanan Branch. He is also the representative of the nin th, tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 30th abbot of Shaolin Temple and the director of the Training Base of Warrior Monks Group of China’s Songshan Shaolin Temple. Grand Master Shi Yongxin inherits the tradittion and makes innovtons in a pioneering spirit. Handling the affairs of the temple, he is diligent in writing his works. In recent years, his monograph The Chan Collection has been published, besides, he has edited the Secret Book of Medicine Sect Kungfu of the Shaolin Temple, Shaolin Kungfu Collected Works and the Study Articles Collection of International Chan Culture by himself or with others. He has founded Shaolin School of Thought to carry on the domestic and overseas cultural exchange, declared Shaolin Kungfu as the non-material cultural heritage and made a great contribution to apreading shaolin cultur of Chan Buddhisn(Zen) and Shaolin Kungfu.