Taipei - A Chinese monk visiting Taiwan with a Chinese Buddhist delegation has committed suicide after killing another member of the delegation, police said Wednesday.

The murder took place at the Forte Hotel in Hsinchu, western Taiwan, where the six-member delegation was staying, a duty officer from the Hsinchu Police Bureau told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

The delegation from the Ling Gu Temple in Nanjing, eastern China, arrived in Taiwan Monday for a six-day visit at the invitation of the Chuan Chuang Culture and Education Foundation.

They checked into the Forte Hotel Tuesday.

When foundation members arrived at the hotel about 8 am Wednesday to pick up the delegation for the day tour, they found priest Jing Ran, 38, lying in a pool of blood on his bed, while Quan Ru, a 53-year-old monk, had committed suicide by jumping from the rooftop of the 12-storey hotel, police said.

An initial investigation showed that Quan Ru had lost his entry permit and was chided by Jing Ran, triggering a quarrel.

Late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, Quan Ru broke into Jing Ran's room and hit him on the head with a table lamp, before leaping from the rooftop.

"The monk killed the priest while the priest was sleeping. No one knew it until the Chuan Chuang Foundation people came to pick up the delegation shortly before 8 am," the hotel's press officer told dpa, asking not to be named.

In Quan Ru's pocket, police found a note saying, "Call police to arrest me, then I can die in peace."

Members of the Chinese delegation said Quan Ru had recently been promoted to become director of the Ling Gu Temple.

They said Quan Ru held a grudge against Jing Ran as he had often argued with him over how to run the temple. (dpa)