1766f76d-072d-11ed-ba2d-c9de5a43d6bf /periodicals/.content/issue-items/TSFgsihbPeriodicalContent_00075.xml Humanistic Buddhism: Plurality and Humanistic Buddhism in the Context of a Buddho-Christian Comparison

On the morning of July 27, 2015, Venerable Master Hsing Yun met scholars and other devotees attending the Third Symposium on Humanistic Buddhism on the third floor of the Dharma Transmission Center, during which he gave a speech “How I Realized Humanistic Buddhism,” (originally titled “The Causes and Conditions that Guided Me to Humanistic Buddhism”).1 I had the great fortune of personally listening to this speech, during which Venerable Master responded to doubts (eight of them) on Humanistic Buddhism raised by those who do not quite understand it, covering topics such as tradition and modernization, laity and monastic, transcendence and engagement, origins and contemporary, spiritual cultivation and activities, etc.