Abbot of Yunghegong Temple in Peking. In 1939-1940, he went on a mission to deliver a letter to the Dalai Lama from Chiang Kai-shek. Fabienne Jagou, Liu Manqing: A Sino-Tibetan Adventurer and the Origin of a New Sino-Tibetan Dialogue in the 1930's, Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines, vol. 17 (October 2009), pp. 5-20, at p. 16.