Shi, a native of Hanshan, Anhui Province, was born in September 1938. Young students study in private schools. /kloc-When he was 0/2 years old, he had to encounter Buddhism. /kloc-at the age of 0/9, he went to Yunjushan, Yongxiu, Jiangxi, and became a close disciple of Xu Yun, a hundred-year-old monk. Shao Yun is the legal name of Xuande. That year, Shao Yun was ordained by his teacher at Nanhua Temple in Guangdong Province, and then returned to Yunjushan, where he became attached to Master, studied Buddhism, and learned Shurangama Sutra and Hokkekyo from Master Hayden. At the age of 22, he was handed down by his teacher and became the ninth generation of Zen.