Chen Yuan
After He Qiaoyuan's account of the Manichaean shrine was brought to the attention of modern scholars in 1923, by Chen Yuan () and Paul Pelliot, local researchers started looking for it. After a long search by a number of researchers (frustrated, at one point, by the presence of marauding bandits), it was finally identified with the existing building by the Quanzhou archaeologist Wu Wenliang () in 1940, who presented the results of his on-site research in a 1957 publication.