A Great Monk

A young member of the imperial clan is implicated in his mother's crime and sent to become a monk at Ganye Temple at the age of six. By a twist of fate, he takes up martial arts. Under the careful guidance of the eminent monk Liaoran, he spends more than thirty years cultivating his mind before his martial skills, blending Zen and martial arts. He later travels the world, tasting every kind of pleasure and enduring every kind of hardship, until he realizes his true nature and attains great liberation and freedom. He establishes the True Self school of Buddhism. Before him, Buddhism taught people to save others, but he teaches them to save themselves. This novel follows the life of the young Xiao You as he grows into the eminent monk Master Xuanchan.