Venerable QiYuan

Venerable QiYuan

Bhikkhu: Shi QiYuan.  Secular last name: Jin. Born in Jilin Province in 1981, he was ordained at the Yuanyuan Temple in Fushun in 1997. Then, in 1998, he was enrolled in Baiyun Temple in Wutaishan. He succeeded Elder YongXin of Hong Kong to become the forty-sixth successor of the Tiantai Sect and studied the teaching method of the Tiantai. He came to the United States in September 2005. While residing at the Buddhist Peaceful Enlightenment in 2009, he became the president of American Buddhist Confederation and succeeded Ven. Ruifa to become the 45th successor of Rinzai school.

In 2013, he founded the American Wisdom Association, Billerica, MA, USA, followed by the FuHui Temple in Rhode Island in 2015.