In contrast to the more forceful Buddhists fighting against injustice at the Mahabodhi Temple in India, Chinese monk Tsung Tsai, in Bones of the Master, takes a slower and more peaceful path in his quest to confront and commemorate the injustices committed against Buddhists in China. It was Tsung Tsai’s goal to build a stupa for his master, Shiuh Deng, to honor his life and his mastery as a monk; as the only monk remaining from his temple of Puu Jih, there was no one else to do this duty: “This is why I must live, Georgie. All my brother monks have gone down dead” (Crane 53). The Chinese government’s systemic abolition of religion resulted in the destruction of the Puu Jih temple, as well as many other Buddhist temples and other religious sanctuaries.