Volume 5: Humanistic Chan Buddhism

Table of Contents

• Editor’s Preface

Translated Articles

• Venerable Master Hsing Yun, “A Discussion of Chan”
• Dong Qun, “What is Chan: Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s Point of View”
• Lee Chih-Ying, “Exploring the Meaning and Practice of Fo Guang Humanistic Living Chan through Hsing Yun’s Chan Stories“
• Lin Pei-ying, “Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s Concept of True Practice in the Context of the History of Chan Thought: A Discussion of Symbolic Implications of Early Chan Buddhism and the Lankāvatāra Sūtra“
• Duh Bay-Ruei, “A Theoretical Analysis on the Possibility of Attaining Buddhahood Using the Mental Cultivation Methods of Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s ‘I Am Buddha’ and Chan Master Huangbo’s ‘This Mind Is Buddha'”
• Li Yong, “Śamathavipaśyanā in Fo Guang Chan”
• Hong Yanni, “Three Dimensions of the Humanistic Spirit of Oxhead Chan”
• Liao Chao-heng, “The Role of Chan Buddhism in East Asian Cultural Interaction during the Modern Period”

Original English Articles

• Shi Juewei, “Buddhist Humanism in the Platform Sūtra of the Sixth Patriarch“

Student Papers

• Maria Majorie R. Purino, “D.T. Suzuki’s Relevance to the Modernization of Buddhism”
• Jorgina Chieng, “Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s Environmental Thoughts: A Beautiful Mind for a More Sustainable World”
• Tian Xiaomeng, “Buddhism, Euthanasia, and Hospice Care”
• R.A. Peterson, “Military Chaplaincy”