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January 19, 2009, Monday
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A SIX-MEMBER team left east China's Nanjing City for Taiwan yesterday to seek more information of an incident in which two mainland monks died last week.
A monk from the Nanjing-based Ling Gu Temple in Jiangsu Province is believed to have committed suicide after apparently murdering a fellow monk in a Taiwan hotel in Hsinchu last Wednesday.
The team, including Master Long Xiang, head of the Nanjing Buddhist Association, two religious affairs officials and two family members, are due to return to Nanjing on Wednesday. They would seek more information about the incident from Taiwan police and deal with the aftermath of the deaths.
Police believe Chun Ru, 54, murdered Jing Ran, another monk, and then jumped to his death from the 13th floor of the Forte Hotel.
Jing Ran was chief of the Ling Gu Temple, while Chun Ru was in charge of administrative affairs. They were members of a six-member delegation of the temple to visit Taiwan last Monday at the invitation of the Hsuan Chuang Cultural and Educational Foundation.
Monks with Ling Gu temple said Chun Ru had recently become unsociable and aloof and fellow monks had been trying to console him.
Jing Ran had volunteered to share a room with him in order to take care of him.
A monk from the Nanjing-based Ling Gu Temple in Jiangsu Province is believed to have committed suicide after apparently murdering a fellow monk in a Taiwan hotel in Hsinchu last Wednesday.
The team, including Master Long Xiang, head of the Nanjing Buddhist Association, two religious affairs officials and two family members, are due to return to Nanjing on Wednesday. They would seek more information about the incident from Taiwan police and deal with the aftermath of the deaths.
Police believe Chun Ru, 54, murdered Jing Ran, another monk, and then jumped to his death from the 13th floor of the Forte Hotel.
Jing Ran was chief of the Ling Gu Temple, while Chun Ru was in charge of administrative affairs. They were members of a six-member delegation of the temple to visit Taiwan last Monday at the invitation of the Hsuan Chuang Cultural and Educational Foundation.
Monks with Ling Gu temple said Chun Ru had recently become unsociable and aloof and fellow monks had been trying to console him.
Jing Ran had volunteered to share a room with him in order to take care of him.
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