明哲法师,字日晶,俗名张玉祥,号云祥。1925年3月出生,山东济宁市人,7岁开始读私塾,跟母亲吃素学佛,通读四书五经。因家境贫寒,15岁辍学,曾想出家未遂,到万盛祥玻璃店学徒。1948年2月8日投拜上海圆明讲堂圆瑛老法师座前,正式出家为僧,即到福州鼓山涌泉寺做沙弥。1950年在福州市舍利院慈舟老法师门下,受三坛具足大戒, Mingzhe Master, the word on crystal, common name Zhang Yuxiang, No. Yunxiang. Born in March 1925, Jining City, Shandong Province, started reading a private school at the age of 7, and studied vegetarian books at the age of seven. Due to poor family, 15-year-old dropped out of school, had attempted an attempt to Wanshengxiang glass shop apprenticeship. On February 8, 1948, he was worshiped in Shanghai Yuanming Lecture Hall, where he was officially monk as monk, and went to Yongquan Temple in Gushan, Fuzhou. In 1950, Fuzhou City, the relic home Fuk Zhou old Mage door, by the three altar full of precepts,