Cyber Kung-fu: Shaolin Temple website hacked
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:36 Written by Jeffreycarr Wednesday, 25 November 2009 08:36

If you had any lingering doubts about the pervasive influence of the Web, this story should remove them forever. The legendary Shaolin Temple, an order of fighting priests founded over 1500 years ago, has been hacked over a dispute on the temple’s alleged commercial activities.
Even more interesting is Pan Shiyi’s (chairman of SOHO) account of his discussion with the temple’s administrative abbot Shi Yongxin over what had happened via his Sina micro-bo account (a Twitter-like blogging service). The timeline of these posts starts at the bottom and moves upward (machine translation):
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I’ll give abbot Shi Yongxin, introduced, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Itanium Lotus Temple and light the church. I said, this is the twenty-first century monastery and a church. (I think this point abbot Shi Yongxin very much agree with) because, he said that he saw in Spain, Gaudi architecture, he liked.
I said, the twenty-first century, self-cultivation, should be to participate in social activities, rather than into the mountains to the ascetic. For social and service to others in the process of improving their own ability and stature of our difficulties, that is, to our improvement and cultivation. Including from the business to create value for society. Shi can not agree with my view. He said the Shaolin Temple is not commercial, but engage in a number of cultural undertakings and cultural transmission.
Abbot Shi Yongxin a night for the network are very distressed, but also a monk of the distress faced by the Internet age. This may be a part of his self-cultivation. I said, let the Shaolin Temple, Shaolin Kung Fu is also trained to come online. He said the difficulty,.Shaolin Temple is too remote a.
I suggest that the Shi Yongxin to open a blog, or micro-Bo. He said that a Shaolin monk told him that, on the Shaolin Temple and Shi Yongxin names are registered to someone else, they start with too late. I said, the name can be longer, such as “Shaolin abbot Shi Yongxin,” or “Shaolin Temple Abbot Shi.” I also talked about some of the benefits of micro-Bo, are in trouble, do not run to Beijing, in the Shaolin Temple can handle. Please think he will adopt my proposal.
Yesterday, Shaolin abbot Shi Yongxin to me and said he came to Beijing, I hope with the chat, he said, the temple site had been hacked, so to Beijing. This evening dinner. He said the temple’s website was dark. He was only a few novices, will be the Internet, and sometimes call him online all the posts, posts by how little monks also made can not get on. Is very distressed.
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