Monday, September 2, 2013

Meng-ts'an


1915 to the present.

Meng-ts'an is a Chinese monk who studied under Tz'u-chou, Hsu-yun, and Hung-yi and who also spent ten years in Tibet studying with the Panchen Lama and other Tantric masters.

Suspected of anti-revolutionary activities, he was arrested in 1950 and sentenced to thirty-three years in prison, eighteen of which he spent doing hard labor.

He was released in 1982 and is one of the most respect monks in mainland China.

His commentary of the Diamond Sutra was delivered in Los Angeles in 1989.

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