Which sect does Master Hsing Yun belong to?

Shi Xingyun was born on August 19, 1927. His common name is Li Guoshen and his Buddhist name is Wu Che. His followers often call him Master Xingyun. A native of Yangzhou (Jiangdu), Jiangsu Province, he became a monk at the age of twelve at the Qixia Temple in Nanjing with Master Li Zhikai. He is the 48th generation descendant of the Linji Sect. In 1945, he entered Qixia Law College to study Buddhism. In the spring of 1949, a monk rescue team was organized to come to Taiwan. He founded Fo Guang Shan in 1967 and served as the first, second and third abbot of Fo Guang Shan Temple.

He has established more than 200 monasteries around the world, and founded dozens of art galleries, libraries, publishing houses, bookstores, Chinese schools, Buddhist jungle colleges, universities, middle schools, and primary schools. He was the editor-in-chief of Buddhist publications such as "Life", "Buddhism Today", and "Awakening the World" monthly.

He once served as Party Affairs Advisor and Standing Committee Member of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang of China. He is currently the President of the World General Assembly of Buddha's Light Association International and the Honorary Dean of the Institute of Chinese Culture at Nanjing University.

The Linji sect, one of the five main schools of the Southern Zen sect, branched off from the Hongzhou sect and began with Linji Yixuan (?-867), when Master Yixuan learned Dharma from Zen Master Huang Xiyun. In the 33rd year, he went to Zhenzhou (now Zhengding, Hebei Province) to build Linji Temple on the bank of the Hutuo River, and widely promoted the new Zen method advocated by Zen Master Xiyun of "prajna as the foundation, taking emptiness to capture existence, and integrating emptiness and existence". This new method of Zen Buddhism became popular in the world because of Yixuan's establishment of a sect in Linji Temple. Later generations called it "Rinzai Sect", and Zhengding Linji Temple also became the ancestral court of Linji Sect.