Lai Yonghai

Director of the Chinese Culture Institute, Nanjing University

人間佛教與佛教的現代化

In recent decades, rapid economic, scientific, and technological development has modernized human society in leaps and bounds. Hence, societies and cultures face the dual issues of how best to treat one’s tradition and how to adapt to the reality of a changing society. If a given tradition is the modernized “medium” (i.e. carrier of specific ideas) of its ideology, then the social conditions under which it operates form the “foundation” (i.e. the direction and strategy) for its modernization.

Lai Yonghai,Studies on Humanistic Buddhism I: Foundational Thoughts(Kaohsiung:Fo Guang Cultural Enterprise Co. Ltd,2018)247-262.COPY