st in modern China.Understanding,explaining and judging Buddhism in terms of humanism,he had promotes and advances the first systematic version of humanistic Buddhism or “Buddhism for this World”,which has the basic...st in modern China.Understanding,explaining and judging Buddhism in terms of humanism,he had promotes and advances the first systematic version of humanistic Buddhism or “Buddhism for this World”,which has the basic characteristics of humanism and the historical method of pratītya-samutpāda.In a word,it is a combination of Buddhist faith and worldly rationality and empiricism.By doing so,he wishes to make Buddhism look more rational and logical,so that it can withstand the hard test of modern knowledge,and get more believers in modern society.However,he has to be failure in this effort,because Buddhism,as a religion,is a kind of faith basically and it can’t be explained as a system of knowledge.Accordingly,Yinshun deflects himself into a direction against traditional Buddhism.We can foresee that this influential theory of humanistic Buddhism will lead the future of Buddhism into a sea of disputes.展开更多
文摘st in modern China.Understanding,explaining and judging Buddhism in terms of humanism,he had promotes and advances the first systematic version of humanistic Buddhism or “Buddhism for this World”,which has the basic characteristics of humanism and the historical method of pratītya-samutpāda.In a word,it is a combination of Buddhist faith and worldly rationality and empiricism.By doing so,he wishes to make Buddhism look more rational and logical,so that it can withstand the hard test of modern knowledge,and get more believers in modern society.However,he has to be failure in this effort,because Buddhism,as a religion,is a kind of faith basically and it can’t be explained as a system of knowledge.Accordingly,Yinshun deflects himself into a direction against traditional Buddhism.We can foresee that this influential theory of humanistic Buddhism will lead the future of Buddhism into a sea of disputes.