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Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s Environmental Thoughts: A Beautiful Mind for a more Sustainable World
The world is on fire. 2020 saw global temperatures rise 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels. The rising temperatures have triggered violent weather events such as recent heatwaves in Canada, floods in Germany, and wildfires in Australia. Adversely, impacting our food supply, health, economic livelihood, and living conditions. From the famous Fire Sermon in Ādittapariyāya Sutta of the Pāli canon, the Buddha depicts a seemingly similar burning world where “everything is burning…burning with the fires of greed, hate, and delusion.” Our degrading environment can thus be seen as a man-made crisis driven by the three fires of “greedy consumer cultures (i.e. greed), dissatisfaction (i.e. hatred), and other attitudes that can be looked upon as vices (i.e. delusion).” Traditional Buddhist texts indicate this plausible connection between our degrading environment and our deteriorating human nature. As world leaders gather at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) for a way out of our environmental mess, we also look to one of the world’s renowned Buddhist leaders for how Buddhist teachings may offer guidance to address our looming environmental problems.
The Construction of Chinese Buddhist Canon With Special Reference To Fo Guang Buddhist Canon
It was in the tenth century that the Chinese imperial court began to carve the entire Buddhist canon onto wooden printing blocks from which large number of xylograph prints could be taken. The first edition of the Chinese Buddhist Canon, which was constructed from 971 to 983 in Chengdu, Shu (current Sichuan Province), is known as Shuben ( 蜀本) or Sichuan edition of the Song dynasty 宋 (960-1279) or Kaibao Canon 開寳藏.
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Founder Venerable Master Hsing Yun was born in 1927 in Jiangdu, Jiangsu Province, China. At the age of 12, he was tonsured by Venerable Master Zhikai in Qixia Temple, Nanjing, with Dajue Temple in Yi.....
漢文佛教大藏經的刻印——兼談《佛光大藏經》的編纂
中國佛教雕刻的大藏經始於宋朝開寶四年（971）至太平興國八年（983），朝廷命張從信到益州（今四川成都）雕造佛經全藏，是為「蜀本」或「蜀版」。《開寶藏》雕版完成十三萬塊後，刻版運到汴京（今開封）儲存，刷印本則分送給各地大寺院。首刻全藏印本曾於北宋雍熙元年（984）由日本沙門奝然傳入日本，以後陸續傳入契丹和高麗及西夏，各地寺院的佛教徒紛紛來汴京請經。
