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Studies on Humanistic Buddhism II: Practical Applications: Venerable Master Hsing Yun on Humanistic Buddhism
Studies on Humanistic Buddhism II: Practical Applications: Venerable Master Hsing Yun on Humanistic Buddhism
Spreading the Dharma: The Second Basic Buddhist Interpretation Workshop
Grace Huang, professional Chinese-English conference interpreter, teaches strategies including “paraphrasing,” “sight translation,” “shadowing and “multi-tasking,” helping students master interpretat.....
Cultivating Social Historical Knowledge to Walk the Bodhisattva Path
In many regards, the future of Humanistic Buddhism can be considered in relation to its past. Developed as a response to social and political reforms in China during the transition from Qing dynastic rule to Republican governance, Humanistic Buddhism, as conceptualized by Master Taixu, proposed a reform of Chinese Buddhism that redirected its focus from ritual practices for the dead to emphasizing the human concerns of practitioners in this life. Thus, it prioritized an objective of engagement with human needs in a worldly context. While Humanistic Buddhism as expanded in Taiwan under the guidance of Venerable Master Hsing Yun maintains this focus on addressing human concerns, a reexamination of this historic foundation might prove fruitful in yielding new directions for the future growth of Humanistic Buddhism, especially in regards to its propagation throughout the world.
Objectively Validating the Practice of Humanistic Buddhism
Venerable Master Hsing Yun once said that Humanistic Buddhism is the union of tradition and modernity; it fuses mountains and forests with society, temples with homes, monastics with lay practitioners, profound words with service and practice. Therefore, an important future direction for the practice of Humanistic Buddhism would be to embed the spirit and values of Buddhist traditions into all levels of society.
The Future of Humanistic Buddhism
In the late 1920s, to address the longstanding flaws present in traditional Buddhist practices since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Master Taixu (1889-1947) dedicated his life to Buddhism for human life, which puts an emphasis on and develops life. Since then, his disciples and those he has inspired proposed Humanistic Buddhism, which focuses on the realities of society. In the 1980s, Buddhists on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in other areas with ethnic Chinese population, actively advocated and practiced Humanistic Buddhism.
Buddhist Humanism in the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
The Platform Sūtra ranks as one of the most popular texts ever produced by Chinese Buddhism. While Buddhists such as Daisaka Ikeda have linked the Lotus Sūtra to Buddhist humanism, few studies have investigated the Platform Sūtra for its humanistic elements. The earliest extant version of this sūtra is the Dunhuang edition, which arguably represents an early transformation from Indic to Chinese Buddhist humanism. Of greater interest is how the form of ninth century Chinese Buddhist humanism encapsulated in this sūtra becomes a form of posthumanism in the twenty-first century. This paper argues for this makeover through Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s commentaries on the Platform Sūtra. Of particular concern is how such Buddhist posthumanism may inform future discourses in the twenty-first century as humanity faces the sixth mass extinction caused by the Anthropocene.
從利他主義的演化看人間佛教與人類的未來
時下對未來學（futurology）的討論，往往集中在科技革命對人類未來的影響，例如生物科技革命有可能衍生出來的「後人類的未來」（posthuman future）。然而，最先引起公眾對未來學廣泛關注的是1972出版的《增長的極限》（Limits to Growth）。該份研究報告由羅馬俱樂部（Club of Rome）負責草擬，其中最具影響力的觀點是，經濟增長需要消耗天然資源，而天然資源是有限的，因此經濟不可能毫無限制地增長，人類須要思考可持續發展作為出路。羅馬俱樂部成員補充說，雖然很多極限都是真實的，但這些極限可能永遠達不到，因為在達到這些極限之前，還會有很多的阻礙或限制，例如經濟、社會、文化和政治，最後還有那在人性內的限制。
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Academic Experiences Executive Director of A Collection of Contemporary Buddhist Works: Chinese Buddhist Academic Series. Taiwan: Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist Culture and Education, 2000–200.....
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