{"id":6447,"date":"2010-10-28T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2010-10-28T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T06:00:23","slug":"happy_104th_birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/happy_104th_birthday.php","title":{"rendered":"104-year-old buddhist monk celebrates birthday in Shenzhen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgblock\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2f99c537-882e-4b1a-b141-915fde99b991_normal.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/2010\/10\/28\/2f99c537-882e-4b1a-b141-915fde99b991_normal.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"759\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionStyle\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><em>Daily Sunshine<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jb.sznews.com\/html\/2010-10\/28\/content_1285055.htm\">October 28, 2010<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A centenarian buddhist monk&#8217;s birthday has drawn large number of followers to Shenzhen&#8217;s Hongfa Temple, today&#8217;s <em>Daily Sunshine<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, Monk Benhuan, the 104-year-old founding abbot monk of Hongfa Temple is both a highly achieved buddhist master as well as a generous philanthropist, who has raised hundreds of millions of yuan to help the poor and build more temples.<\/p>\n<p>Monk Benhuan&#8217;s legendary spiritual accomplishments includes holding a meditation that lasted 91 days without falling asleep in his youth; locking himself up in a temple for seven years and spending an entire year pilgriming from Baoding to Wutai Mountain, kowtowing to bodhisattva every three steps.<\/p>\n<p>All these are perhaps not as remarkable as his eidetic memory. According to his disciple Monk Yinshun, Monk Benhuan once recognized a visitor who visited him five years ago at 16. That goes without saying that the famous monk has tens of thousands of visitors everyday asking him for blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Among these blessing seekers, there are no shortage of important government officials and successful businesspeople but they are treated no differently. Monk Benhuan would tap a stick or a folding fan on their heads while chanting: &#8220;Fortune, fortune, make a big fortune; promotion, promotion, have a big promotion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lshead\">Links and Sources<\/div>\n<div class=\"lstext\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>Daily Sunshine<\/em> (Chinese): <a href=\"http:\/\/jb.sznews.com\/html\/2010-10\/28\/content_1285055.htm\">Monk Benhuan celebrates his 104th birthday.<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Previously on Danwei: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/front_page_of_the_day\/a_centenarian_monk_reads_the_n.php\">A centenarian monk reads the newspaper<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A centenarian buddhist monk&#8217;s birthday drew large number of worshipers to Shenzhen&#8217;s Hongfa Temple, today&#8217;s <em>Daily Sunshine<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/happy_104th_birthday.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[2090,1522,556,2321],"class_list":["post-6447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-of-the-day","tag-buddhism","tag-daily-sunshine","tag-religion","tag-shenzhen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}