In the past, monks who influenced the whole country were often portrayed as eminent monks/nuns and recorded in history books. Such compilation method is reasonable in terms of influence on contemporary or future generations. However, some monks/nuns who have devoted their entire lives to contributing to the local area, their achievements could not be fully included into the History of Chinese Buddhism or History of Taiwan Buddhism in detail because they were not influential within the whole country. For monks/nuns who are influential merely across counties or cities or in a single county or city, or even only in a certain township, it is perhaps a good way to record their contributions in the form of essays. Be it in large-scale History of Chinese Buddhism or General History of Taiwan Buddhism, or the research of a single paper, they all served as an aid for our future generations to understand the entire process according to the four factors: people, time, place, and thing, and start a new historical narrative cum giving these Buddhist figures a moderate evaluation. This article chooses Venerable Hsiuhui who has devoted herself to Buddhism in Hsinchu County and spared no effort in cultivating disciples as the research object. The focal points of this article include: Negotiation with the military to take back the temple; managing Lianhua Temple in Litou Mountain, Zhubei City, Hsinchu County; the reason for building Bodhi Aranya and the Bodhi Lecture Hall; and serving as the chairman of Hsinchu County Buddhist Association.
