Chinese Buddhism Today - Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha’s Light Mountain - Yu-Shuang Yao

Chinese Buddhism Today - Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha’s Light Mountain - Yu-Shuang Yao

Hsing Yun's Ethos and Activities

Chinese Buddhism Today - Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha’s Light Mountain - Yu-Shuang Yao

Yu-Shuang Yao [+-]
Fo Guang University, Taiwan
Yu-Shuang Yao completed her PhD in Sociology of Religion at the University of London in 2001. She is a Professor at Fo Guang University, Taiwan, specializing in contemporary religions of Taiwan.
Richard Gombrich [+-]
University of Oxford / Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies
Richard Gombrich is founder and President of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. Before his retirement in 2004, he held the Boden Chair of Sanskrit at Oxford University and a Professorial Fellowship at Balliol College for 28 years. He supervised nearly 50 theses on Buddhist topics, and is the author of 200 publications. He continues to lecture and teach at universities round the world.

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The chapter explores the ethos of FGS first by contrasting it with another Taiwanese Buddhist movement of much the same age as FGS, Tzu Chi, finding that the focus of their activities and underlying ethos are quite different although both are known as "humanistic buddhsim". The authors go on to narrate the biography of Hsing Yun in an effort to show how aspects of his larger-than-life personality have influenced the character of FGS. They pay attention to his writing, publishing and other media activities which have always been his main method of proselytizing, as well as spiritual tourism/pilgrimage operations which they run on a massive scale.

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Yao, Yu-Shuang; Gombrich, Richard. Hsing Yun's Ethos and Activities. Chinese Buddhism Today - Conservatism, Modernism, Syncretism and Enjoying Life on the Buddha’s Light Mountain. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 54-69 Jun 2022. ISBN 9781800502321. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=43515. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.43515. Jun 2022

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