The Linji School is founded by Master Yi Xuan in Tang dynasty in Zhengding, Hebei. Since it was founded, it has spread quickly in Northern China and then Southern China, gradually its influence expand to the whole nation. In Southern Song dynasty, the Linji School spread to Japan and Korea and got extensive development. From Yi Xuan to You Ming, it had been through 45 generations, during which the principles of the Linji School had been carried forward. Master You Ming (1916-2010) is the 45^(th) successor of the Linji School, he had very rich life experiences. He went through the turbulent years in the Republican period, Anti-Japanese War, War of Liberation, the Cultural Revolution and the Reform and Opening-up. He became a monk when he was a child and went study Buddha Dharma in many places such as Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Shandong, Beijing and Zhejiang. He lived in adversity that he had to replace his clothes as a monk due to many reasons, but he never changed his belief. He also practiced Buddhist doctrine in his daily life. He was the director of the Buddhist Association of China, a CPPCC member of Hebei province, honorary chairman of the Buddhist Association of Hebei, chairman of the Buddhist Association of Shijiazhuang, Buddhist abbot of Linji Temple in Zhengding in his lifetime. He lived a simple life and abide by the religious disciplines all his life. He propagandized the Buddha Dharma to benefit the public. He made a great contribution to the rebuilt of the ancestral Chamber of Linji School, the renaissance of Zen in Linji School and the development of Buddhism in Hebei. This article intends to talk about the studying, propaganda and the education activities towards the monks of Master You Ming through his biography like learning experiences, rebuilt the temple, propagandized the Buddha Dharma, strengthened cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries and so on.
