Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Master Hsing Yun (1927–2023) 🪷
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BDG News: Upcoming Enshrinement of Master Hsing Yun’s Relics Sparks Discussion on Devotion for Buddhists
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The Open Buddhist University📰 Telling the Life of Hsing Yun in Popular Media (A free, 25-page article from 2015)
Tags: #Modern #China #Foguangshan
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/toward-modern-buddhist-hagiography_chia-jack-meng-tat
Toward a Modern Buddhist Hagiography: Telling the Life of Hsing Yun in Popular Media
The founder of Fo Guang Shan is one of the most influential Buddhist monks in Taiwan and around the world. This study examines the biographies of Hsing Yun as depicted in Fo Guang Shan’s popular media to elucidate the uses and significance of Buddhist hagiography in contemporary Taiwan. I argue that unlike the Buddhist hagiographies of earlier times in which eminent monks were depicted as transcendental beings with superhuman powers and spiritual attainments, the informal and intimate portrayals of Hsing Yun in popular media seek to portray the monk as a worldling bodhisattva
📰 Christianity as Model and Analogue in the Formation of the ‘Humanistic’ Buddhism of Tài Xū and Hsīng Yún (A free, 33-page article from 2018)
Tags: #China #RespondingToChristians #Modern #Foguangshan
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/christianity-as-model-in-humanistic-buddhism_yao-yu-shuang-et-al
Christianity as Model and Analogue in the Formation of the ‘Humanistic’ Buddhism of Tài Xū and Hsīng Yún
This article examines how modern Chinese Buddhism has been influenced by Christianity. For our purposes ‘modern Chinese Buddhism’ refers to a form of what has become known in the West as ‘Engaged Buddhism’, but in Chinese is known by titles which can be translated ‘Humanistic Buddhism’ or ‘Buddhism for Human Life’.
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