CHINA
AFP
August 15, 2018
By Elizabeth Law
The head of China’s government-run Buddhist association quit his post on Wednesday amid an investigation into allegations that he coerced several nuns into having sex with him.
Xuecheng, a Communist Party member and abbot of the Beijing Longquan Monastery, is one of the most prominent figures to face accusations in China’s growing #MeToo movement.
In a 95-page report that circulated online late last month, two monks accused Xuecheng of sending explicit text messages to at least six women, threatening or cajoling them to have sex with him, claiming it was a part of their Buddhist studies.
The same report also claimed the Beijing Longquan Monastery is in financial trouble.
China’s top religious authority launched an investigation shortly after the allegations were made public.
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