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Biography: Ben Huan(本焕) Mater BenHuan, who is from XinZhou of HuBei Province, was born in Guangxu Thirty-three Years, that is, in 1907. His full name is Zhang Zhishan. He went to the old-style private school when he was 7 years old and became an apprentice in the local grocery store. When in his twenties, Zhang gave up his home and pratised religion in the Baoen Temple. In 1930, he went to the Baotong Temple to receive and upholding precepts in Wuchang. At the same year, he came to the Gaoyu Temple and formally acknowledged LaiGuo as his master, where he spent 7 years in praticing the Dharma. In February 1937, he spared no efforts to worship at the shrine on Mount WuTai and then lived in BiShan temple. Two years later, he became the third Master Monk Guan there. During ten years' practicing Buddhism, Zhang wrote a buddhist sutras named Pu Xian Xing Yuan Pin, which was consisted of 19 chapters and contained 2,000,000 characters, using his own blood. In 1947, he visited many other temples all over the China, namely MiLe Monastery in Beijing, JuShi Lodge in Tianjin and PuJi Temple in Shanghai. In 1948, he left Mount WuTai for NanHua Temple in Guangdong Province to take the place of Master XuYun. In January of 1949, he acceded to the abbot of Nanhua temple. In April, 1980, the people's government of Huanan county and the Buddhism community invited him as the abbot of BieChuan temple in Danxia Moutain. In January 1987 he acceded to the abbot of Guangxiao temple in Guangzhou Province, during 1992-2008 he was voted as the abbot of Hongfa temple, at that time he was known as the "most greats in Buddhism". Benhuan mage served as honorary President of the Buddhist association of China, honorary President of the Buddhist association of HuBei province and Guangdong province, the President of Shenzhen Buddhism association, the honorary President of the Buddhist association of ShaoGuan city, the Chinese people's political consultative conference in Guangdong province. On April 2, 36 points at zero in Shenzhen Hongfa temple he was dead ,at the age of one hundred and five.