Wang Senfu 王森甫

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Biography

Wáng's ancestors came from Tàipíng County 太平縣, Ānhui1 安徽, but Wáng was born in Hànkǒu 漢口, where he received a classical education. As an adult, he managed a cotton cloth business in Hànkǒu and was quite successful. During the last decade of the Qīng Dynasty, Wáng participated in revolutionary activities and lent material support to revolutionary causes in Wu3han4 武漢 and Shang4hai 上海.

In 1912, Wáng became president of the Hànkǒu chapter of the Red Cross. He was also engaged in a number of other relief activities in the 1920s, especially during the Northern Expedition (1926-1928).

In 1920, Wáng, Chén Yuánbá inv Wǔhāng to lecture again. These lectures were attended by numerous businessmen and and community figures. This was the beginning of the Hànkǒu Buddhist Association 漢口佛教會. The following year, they again invited Tàixū lecture, this time at Guīyuán Temple 歸元寺 in Hànyáng 漢陽. After these lectures on the Yuánjué jing 圓覺經 (Sūtra of Complete Enlightenment), Chén, Lǐ, Wáng, and others decided to establish the Wǔchāng Buddhist Seminary 武昌佛學院, which they invited Tàixū to head.

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• Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó Fójiào jìndài shǐ 中國佛教近代史 (A History of Early Contemporary Chinese Buddhism), in Dōngchū lǎorén quánjí 東初老人全集 (Complete Collection of Old Man Dongchu), vols. 1-2. Taipei: Dongchu, 1974 Pp. 2.518-519
• Yú Língbō 于凌波, ed. Xiàndài Fójiào rénwù cídiǎn 現代佛教人物辭典 (A Dictionary of Modern Buddhist Persons), 2 vols. Taipei: Foguang, 2004. Pp.