Fearing that the. dispute may be-game a joke to outsiders, itis learned, Buddhist leaders in this city are try ing to stop this quarrel over worldly. things 'Ina private way, retraining from. referring it to. the 'Buddhist Association. 'The Chinese press hints that they want fo avoid political com= plications. Although no" details are Riven, itis a fact that' many months fo, "Abbot "Yuen 'Ying, one of_ the' important executives of Buddhist Bodies here, was "Kidnapped" and Lor some tine kept in Nanking.
ndleations are that unless a peace ful'settlement of the problem is re= ached goon, Abbot Yani Shi, "who claims fo be the *'superintendent™ ho Temple, inay" augment the trouble ployed a lawyer io make all Sna cial ay, for ho hay houncements. ie has been in many Jenai disputes with the late chic of the temple and even Just before the latter's death he was collecting evid ghee to support is Judicial, claim. The position of the late. chief monk hag Been algputed for more than ten years and the matter was once ve= Terrea to the Ministry of Interior.
Woman Holds Documents Abbot Yang Shi, says in his latest statement that he is old, hinting that he may not wont to succeed the late menic as the chiot of the biggest tem= Ple"here, but that he does not, want Abbot Deli Wu, the 22-year old monk, succeed the late Buddhist leader: He "wants a conference of Buddhist Yeaders to elile the matter so. that the huge' temple property: may "not the young monk and, a Woman Without public sanction. "He alleges that ait Important documents of the monastery are In the hands of the Woman alleged tobe the common law wite of the late Abyot zo Wen, who is alg alleged to have boon, on plum smoker. He does not want to see a fsnered ago where he used to. pray in' the past become a meeting' place of "devils" ne says.
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