The abbot of Yueyang Zizhulin Zen Temple, Venerable Liao Guo, has returned to her home town after many years of travelling abroad to preach the Dharma. She is now back in her hometown, where she is building a Kunshan Temple and a stupa to house the Buddha’s relics that she has brought from Malaysia and Indonesia. Construction of the stupa began in 2006 and was completed in 2009. The Purple Bamboo Grove Zen Centre is the main venue for monks’ activities, where people practice meditation and debate, and where secular topics are hotly debated, such as “Does the Bodhisattva protect corrupt officials? The Zen centre is the main venue for Zen practice and debates among the monks. The Zen centre provided a place for people in the atomic state of society to meet, where they no longer felt alone and powerless.