Ji Ran

Ji Ran (1893 – October 1939, Chinese: 寂然法师) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and humanitarian who orchestrated the sheltering of 24,000 refugees during the Nanjing Massacre (1937–1938). In his capacity as the supervising monk (jianyuan) of Qixia Temple in Nanjing, he founded the temple's Buddhist Refugee Shelter, the single significant sanctuary created and administered exclusively by Chinese during the horror.

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