Word: paiyunkuan
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...auspicious one for the offering of sacrifices; the twelfth day favors the digging of graves, the making of coffins, and the burial of the dead. On the night of Nov. 11, 36 black-robed Taoist priests gathered in the compound of Peiping's ancient and beautiful Paiyunkuan (White Cloud temple). They had come to sit in judgment, and to propitiate the Taoist gods...
From their monastic quarters near the main temple, the priests dragged the abbot of Paiyunkuan, An Shih-lin, and his favorite priest, Pai Chin-yi. In the flickering light of oil lamps, a bitter trial began. The priestly jury found the abbot and his henchman guilty of illegal relations with women (kept in a house beyond the temple walls); of squandering temple funds (to buy heroin); and of starving two Chinese because they refused to collaborate with the Japs...
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