In league with the lamaists, whose sect, powerful at the time, resented the Buddhists, government troops stormed the temple one night and set it ablaze.
而且，清初喇嘛教勢力龐大，和佛寺時有糾紛；最後喇嘛與官府聯手，乘夜攻入少林寺，見人就殺，並放火焚寺，只有掌門至善的師兄至悟突圍而出，但左眼也受傷失明。