Where does Shaolin Temple spend hundreds of millions of incense money every year?

The development of tourism has brought new opportunities to all industries. In addition to hotels and restaurants, the spread of Buddhist culture in tourism is also well known.

Buddhism, as a Buddhism with great influence, has a very lofty position in our country since ancient times. Whether it is a small temple or those famous temples, you will see the majestic appearance of the temple every once in a while.

In so many temples in the country, you will basically see the "merit box", and everyone is familiar with it.

When you come to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, you donate a dozen or twenty dollars first, and even rich people keep putting hundred-dollar bills in it.

In fact, everyone wants to be lucky and pray for good things to happen, but many people don't know the whereabouts of incense money.

Shaolin Temple earns hundreds of millions of dollars every year. How do they make so much money?

In fact, it is no stranger to Shaolin Temple. As one of the most famous temples in China, Shaoshan Shaolin always attracts a large number of tourists.

Since the popularity of Shaolin Temple, its reputation has soared, but there are always a lot of negative behaviors in these years.

Even in such a negative environment, the number of tourists is still unabated. As early as 2006, there were 65.438+0.6 million tourists in Shaolin Temple, and the income of Shaolin Temple at that time began to exceed 65.438+0 billion yuan.

Now for more than ten years, the number of tourists is increasing every year, and the income has almost no downward trend.

As one of the most famous temples in the world, Shaolin Temple's main source of income depends on tickets, incense money and field martial arts performances. Among them, martial arts performances will also be performed abroad.

No matter what kind of profit, it seems that there is a lot of "copper smell", and various commercial projects are constantly appearing, just like burning incense. I also heard that people used to burn incense in Shaolin Temple, at least 600 times. ...

Where did the incense money donated by tourists end up? I don't want to donate after reading it.

According to our understanding, 30% of the income of Shaolin Temple goes to the temple and 70% to the government. As early as before, Shi Yongxin sued his superior for defaulting on the ticket fee of 50 million yuan, but the other party said, "A monk doesn't need to have that much money."

In fact, temple incense money has a wide range of uses. Shaolin Temple uses 70% of the incense money to maintain temple construction, and the remaining 20% is living expenses, and 10% is used for charity.

According to this purpose, some people think that 10% is a little too little for charity. After all, people say that "all sentient beings have it", and Shaolin Temple only devotes 10% to charity, which inevitably makes it feel a little stingy.

Maybe this smacks of "moral kidnapping". How they are distributed is Shaolin Temple's own business, but the public welfare undertakings invested by charities need detailed accounts, so that they can be seen at a glance, but there is actually no such detailed information.

In addition, many temples are even contracted by some developers, which is quite common, and incense money is even "divided up". This practice of "borrowing money from Buddha" is more common.

It is precisely because of the chaos in many temples that tourists are reluctant to donate incense money even if they go to temples to burn incense and worship Buddha.