{"id":73112,"date":"2025-07-28T14:41:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/28\/shaolin-temple-abbot-monk-investigation-embezzlement-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:41:34","slug":"head-of-shaolin-temple-in-china-under-investigation-on-suspicion-of-embezzlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73112","title":{"rendered":"Head of Shaolin Temple in China under investigation on suspicion of embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Controversy comes to the birthplace of kung-fu with accusations against head monk Shi Yongxin<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s famous Shaolin Temple has announced that its abbot is under investigation on suspicion of misappropriation and embezzlement of project funds and temple assets.<\/p>\n<p>Shi Yongxin is alleged to have committed criminal offences and violated Buddhist precepts by maintaining relationships with multiple women over a long period and fathering at least one child, according to a notice from the temple\u2019s authority on its WeChat account.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/28\/shaolin-temple-abbot-monk-investigation-embezzlement-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversy comes to the birthplace of kung-fu with accusations against head monk Shi YongxinChina\u2019s famous Shaolin Temple has announced that its abbot is under investigation on suspicion of misappropriation and embezzlement of project funds and temple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4868,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73113,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73112\/revisions\/73113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}