{"id":10677,"date":"2023-06-20T06:14:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T06:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haihuishan.es\/maestro-renshan\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:02:47","slug":"maestro-renshan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vlkm1371fbt.c.updraftclone.com\/en\/maestro-renshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Founding Master"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Founding Master: Master Renshan
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I became a monk after becoming aware that life and death show the nature of impermanence that governs the world. After studying the Buddhist scriptures, a desire was born in me to spread the Dharma. I wished that all people in the world could hear the voice of Buddhist wisdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

May all beings of the three thousand kingdoms<\/span>
\n<\/span>may be reborn in lotuses of the Pure Land.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

From the bottom of my heart, I hope to use the wisdom of Earth Buddhism to help all beings live a happy and fulfilled life.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014 Master Renshan<\/span><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50″][vc_single_image image=”10428″ img_size=”full” style=”vc_box_rounded”][vc_empty_space height=”50″][vc_column_text]Master Renshan was born in 1980 in Shangshui, Henan province, into a Buddhist family. At the age of 12, he began reading Buddhist scriptures and books, and found in them hope for answers to life’s fundamental questions. Inspired by the story of Siddhartha Gautama, he took the inner vow to become a monk. At the age of 15, under the guidance of his parents, he was ordained a monk by Elder Citing at the Wujin Rulai Zen Temple in Jiangsu and received the complete precepts under the guidance of Elder Benghuan at the Bishan Temple on Wutai Mountain in 2001. That same year he travelled to Singapore to study the Buddhist scriptures and teachings. Master Renshan took vows to preach the Buddhist teachings for the rest of his life, and has been doing so without interruption since the beginning of his monastic life.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has given talks and lectures in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, India, Sri Lanka, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Taiwan.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 1 December 2019, Master Renshan founded the Hai Hui Shan Buddhist Community in Spain and is currently the president.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MASTER RENSHAN<\/b><\/p>\n

According to my father, my family has been Buddhist believers for many generations. Yet, after my grandmother’s death, my father lost faith. Seeing her suffering so much on her deathbed, even though she had diligently practised and recited the Buddha’s name (even during the arduous time of the Cultural Revolution), he found it difficult to continue believing. What he did not know was that suffering can be due to karmic retribution from previous lives. But given what he understood at the time, along with the critical attitude towards Buddhism of many neighbours, my father decided that we would abandon the practice of Buddhism in the family.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the year my grandmother died, I came into the world. My brother and two sisters had already joined my family. It was the early days of China’s reform and opening up, and my father was doing business in many places, so as a child, I travelled to many places with him and my mother. At the age of six, I returned to my hometown to study. Shortly after starting school, one day while playing in the field with my classmates, I came across a funeral procession blowing a trumpet and beating drums. This aroused my curiosity, and I asked what was going on. The answer I got was, “Someone has died. When I got home, I asked my mother, “What happens to people who die? Why do they die? Where do they go after they die? Is it possible not to die?” To this series of questions, my mother simply said, “Everyone dies, it’s normal to die.” Perhaps my mother thought that no amount of explanation could make a child understand the problems associated with death. However, these questions kept going round and round in my head. “How can I understand or even solve the problem of death?” I wondered.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the age of twelve, when I was in high school, my father, who had been through great storms, was drawn back to Buddhism. I remember once coming home from school, I saw a large pile of sutras and a statue of Buddha in the courtyard. When I saw them, I was delighted. They turned out to be the gifts I had brought with me after converting to Buddhism at the White Horse Temple in Luoyang. The twists of fate are always wonderful; I felt at that moment as if a great force was guiding me. My father said that his return to Buddhism, and his new understanding of Buddhism, were directly related to the death of the grandmother, who was guiding him. In a world of infinite karmic manifestations, nothing is the result of chance, not even the study of Buddhism. I looked for a long time at the portrait of the Three Saints of the West (Buddha Amitabha, accompanied by Bodhisattva Avalokite\u015bvara and Bodhisattva Mah\u0101sth\u0101mapr\u0101pta), and I had a feeling that I had met them before. The scriptures I browsed through were introductory texts to Buddhism, texts about the Pure Land, stories of the Buddha, etc. For a long time, apart from schoolwork, I spent my evenings reading and studying them, and gradually I seemed to understand better what birth and death were all about. In particular, I was inspired by the story of Siddhartha Buddha’s journey in front of the four gates when he was a prince, and I had a vague feeling that this was the real lesson I needed to learn: to free myself from the cycle of life and death.<\/span><\/p>\n

My father seemed to read my mind; he asked me if I wanted to become a monk and praised with great enthusiasm the great virtues it entailed. At the same time, he told me that if I became a monk, he would help me to become a monk and then convert too; if I decided not to take the step, he would take care of my education and then become a monk. He often got up at two or three o’clock in the morning to do the morning readings and recitations, so it seemed that his heart had already made up his mind to become a monk.<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw my peers growing up as they played and studied, then worked and started a family, following what many people believe to be the trajectory of life, from birth to death, indifferently. I couldn’t predict what the future held for me, but I probably didn’t see myself very far from it if I followed the same steps. I wondered, “Is this what my life is going to be like?” I decided against it. It was a conscious decision, made after much thought. Prince Siddhartha, who renounced the envy of the world and the pursuit of glory and wealth, decided to follow the path of self-realisation to find the true meaning of life and eternal happiness, and that is what a wise and courageous man would do. I am not a prince, nor have I ever envied wealth and glory, so what is there to cling to? You have to admire the virtuous and learn from the Buddha. At the age of fifteen, after high school, I set out on the path to becoming a monk, accompanied by my parents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Master Neng Xian, then vice-president and general secretary of the Buddhist Association of Henan Province, was waiting for us. It turned out that my father, often a volunteer in the Association, had already told the Master that I intended to become a monk. When the Master heard that a young man wanted to convert, he was especially pleased and gave me a lot of facilities, saying that he would arrange to introduce me to any temple I wanted to go to as long as I became a monk.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Master’s recommendation and the Buddha’s guidance, the karma finally fell on the elderly monk Citing, who ordained me; he was then the president of the Shangqiu Buddhist Association in Henan Province. The Master himself sent me to the old monk and told him that I would be formally ordained after a probationary period. The two masters gave me the monastic name “Renshan” (“compassionate mountain”), for Master Neng Xian wanted the revival of Buddhism to be like a mountain full of people; while Master Citing wanted me to have a kind heart and the virtue of a firm mountain.<\/span><\/p>\n

My father was happy to see me “coming home,” and my mother, though a little reluctant, was able to bear the suffering of separation. I am ashamed to say that I have never been able to repay my parents for their kindness in educating me, making me a monk, and for their kindness in guiding me. Soon after sending me to the association, my father also became a monk. A few years later, my mother also decided to become a nun.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the years since I became a monk, my teacher has constantly encouraged me through practical training. In addition to performing my duties at the monastery and practising the blessings, I also spent a lot of time memorising the classics. When I first became a monk, I thought it was a priority to recite the Buddha’s teachings to put an end to life and death, and I always hid and recited them to solve as quickly as possible this problem that had troubled me for so many years. Later, after listening to the sutra teachings, this concept gradually took on a new nuance. From the initial eagerness for rebirth, I gradually developed the desire to teach the Dharma and the scriptures, and if there is a cause, I would like to dedicate my life to the cause of promoting Buddhist wisdom and benefiting sentient beings. Then I went to Singapore to study the scriptures.<\/span><\/p>\n

I dare not claim to be an enlightened person, but I sincerely hope that more people will listen to the Dharma and use it to alleviate their worries, so that their lives will be happier and the world a better place. At the beginning of my studies, I set out to teach the sutras for life. Since then, I have been studying and giving talks all over the world, introducing Buddhist wisdom to others while continuing to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a model both of self-learning and of benefit to others. In the course of my lectures, I constantly think about the need for Buddhism in these times, how life calls for this kind of wisdom, and how Buddhism should be presented to the public in order to achieve understanding. I believe that the promotion of Buddhism in our time should focus more on the level of concrete life, so that more people can realise that Buddhism is inseparable from their own lives, that Buddhism is the Dharma of life, the Dharma of wisdom, the Dharma of happiness, the Dharma of liberation, the Dharma that everyone should learn and can practise. Buddhism is a truly complete and humane education with the goal of enlightenment and the goal of liberation from suffering!<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row kd_background_image_position=”vc_row-bg-position-top”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”70″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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