Chapter 6194

Master Kongyin’s identity is not as sensitive as Keagan Myers’s.

Thus, Maria believed that it was far easier to visit Master Kongyin at the Kinkaku Temple than it was to travel to Eastcliff to see Keagan Myers not long ago when she returned.

When Maria asked the monk at the door to relay her message, he was not nearly as vigilant and cautious as Keagan Myers’s guards in Eastcliff.

Upon hearing that Maria claimed to be a relative of Master Kongyin and was acting on her elders’ orders, the monk instinctively chose to believe her.

Japanese Buddhism was introduced from China. Old monk’s journeys eastward brought Chinese Buddhist teachings to Japan, where they were thoroughly studied. However, after the Meiji Restoration, Japanese Buddhism and the monks’ precepts changed significantly.

Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan adhered closely to the bhikkhu precepts of Indian and Chinese Buddhism, which prohibited monks from consuming meat or fish, and forbade marriage. However, in the wake of the Meiji Restoration, Japanese Buddhism gradually became more secular, allowing most monks to marry and have families.

Given this general context, visiting the temple to see family, even a father or grandfather, became quite commonplace.