1. Elder Zhihai, originally from Changping County, Beijing, was born in an agricultural family in the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), and has studied Confucianism in a rural school since childhood.
2. When he was 17 years old, he was in Hongluoshan Temple, Huairou County, Beijing, the 12th generation of the Pure Land Sect's Ancestor Taoist Temple.
