Today marks the day when Master Li Shutong became a Buddhist a century ago.

It is the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year in 1918 that the Tiger Spring Temple of Hangzhou accepted the master’s request to become a Buddhist and gave him a religious name Hong Yi, who finished the tonsure later in July of the lunar calendar.

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Master Hong Yi  Calligraphy

Ink on paper, mounted

60.5×31cm