Former abbot of Beijing’s Longquan Temple steps down from religious oversight committee
A former top-ranking Buddhist monk in China who was embroiled in a sex scandal earlier this year has now been stripped of his position on the country’s top political advisory body.
Xuecheng, who resigned as chairman of the Buddhist Association of China in August, has been under fire since a 95-page document accusing him of sexual harassment went viral on social media at the end of July.
At a meeting on Thursday the Chinese Political Consultative Conference removed him as deputy director of its Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee. The political advisory body also accepted his resignation as a member of its standing committee, and as an ordinary member, according to Xinhua.
