Miriam Levering

Professor, University of Tennessee

論貪、欲及星雲大師人間佛教的普世價值──以美國為例

慈惠法師總編輯

Greed. We all know greed is a problem. U.S. citizen Bernie Madoff’s successful investment fund attracted wealthy investors. Every year his returns on investment were much larger than those of other funds. In the end it turned out that he was not investing his customers’ money at all. Instead, he was running a Ponzi or “pyramid” scheme, paying off the investors who withdrew their money with the money he was taking in from new investors. While the Ponzi scheme was going strong, he was the toast of New York City and highly admired by others in the finance world. When thousands of his customers lost large sums of money, he became the poster boy of greed. Yet of course his customers were greedy too.

Miriam Levering, " Greed, Desire, and the Universal Need for Master Hsing Yun's Humanistic Buddhism: A View from the United States, " 2014人間佛教高峰論壇──人間佛教宗要 (2015): 15-22COPY