Insisting on promoting the Sinicization of Buddhism and telling Chinese religious stories well
2022-06-09
Recently, Buddhist circles in Hubei, Guangxi, Fujian and other places held a lecturing exchange meeting. The participating mages closely focused on the theme of adhering to the localization of Buddhism in China, took the core socialist values as the guide, integrated the "three loves" and "four histories", forged the awareness of the Chinese national community and Chinese excellent traditional culture, based on the core doctrines, lectured to religious people, and played a positive role in guiding the use of scriptures. Hubei: elaborately polishing a batch of lecturing models that meet the requirements of the times to further enrich and expand the Sinicization of Buddhism From June 1 to 2, the "2022 Hubei Buddhist lecture and exchange meeting" hosted by Hubei Buddhist Association and undertaken by Xianning Buddhist Association was held in Xianning. 19 preaching masters from all over Hubei Province, with the theme of "promoting the 'Hubei practice' of sinicization and writing the 'Jingchu chapter' of the new era", preached the classics based on the Buddhist classics, combined with learning, cultivation and understanding, and guided the believers to love the country, love the religion, believe and do right things around the five aspects of Buddhist beliefs, morality, beings, cultivation and wealth. The relevant person in charge of the people's and Religious Affairs Commission of Hubei Province pointed out that it is necessary to guide the Buddhist clergy to go deep into scriptures, keep up with the times, meet the needs of religious believers, use Chinese language and Chinese expression, and explain the Buddhist classical teachings in line with the requirements of the times and the excellent traditional culture of China, so that the majority of believers can correctly grasp the core meaning of Buddhism, consciously accept the edification of the excellent traditional culture of China, and constantly enhance the "five identities". The Buddhist circles in Hubei Province pay attention to learning from the successful experience and important enlightenment of the Sinicization of Buddhism in China, especially in Hubei history, comprehensively sort out and summarize the outstanding achievements of lecturing exchanges over the years, carefully polish a number of lecturing models that meet the requirements of the times, and further enrich and expand the Hubei practical experience of the Sinicization of Buddhism. In recent years, 181 outstanding mages in Hubei Province have made speeches on the stage at the provincial lecture and exchange meeting. The mage representatives selected by Hubei Province have also won many awards at the lecture and exchange meeting of the China Buddhist Association, showing the good image of the Buddhist community in Hubei in the new era. The sermon exchange meeting has enabled a group of young mages to stand out, and also provided a reserve force for cultivating a group of "double communication" talents who are proficient in doctrines and Chinese excellent traditional culture. At the same time, Hubei province encourages grass-roots Buddhist associations to actively carry out preaching and exchange, select the best from the best, and find talents at all levels. Extensive preaching and exchange activities have further stimulated the mission awareness and responsibility of the teaching staff, improved their religious attainments and cultural taste, enhanced their ability to serve believers, and expanded the ways to discover, cultivate and use Buddhist talents. Fujian: Based on the core doctrines to interpret scriptures, preach scriptures to religious believers, play a positive role in using scriptures, and further promote the Sinicization of "interpreting, lecturing and using scriptures" The Fujian Buddhist Association recently held a seminar on the Sinicization of Buddhism in Fujian in Putian, which is an important measure to implement the spirit of the national and provincial religious work conferences and the theme month of "sticking to the Sinicization of religion" in Fujian. This lecturing exchange meeting always focused on the theme of "Sinicization of Buddhism". The participating mages gave lectures in combination with the patriotic deeds of eminent monks of previous dynasties, strengthening the role model of patriotism and love of religion. The lecture exchange will introduce the on-site question and answer session, and through random questions, express opinions on "how to adhere to the Sinicization of Buddhism and how to become qualified monks in the new era", so as to increase the depth of thinking of monks; An innovative debate exchange link was added. Fujian Buddhist College and Minnan Buddhist College launched fierce debates on issues related to the healthy inheritance of Buddhism, so as to improve the thinking ability of monks; For the first time, relevant leaders of provincial religious organizations were invited to the scene to observe, exchange and learn from each other, and unite the ideological consensus to promote the localization of religion in China. Lanmingshang, Secretary of the Party group and director of the Fujian Provincial Department of folk religion, said in his speech that the localization of religion in China is a major topic of religious work in the new era. He hoped that the Buddhist community in the province would deeply learn from the successful experience and important enlightenment of the localization of Buddhism in China's history, adhere to the practice of interpreting scriptures based on core doctrines, lecturing to religious believers, giving full play to positive functions, and further promote the practice of "interpreting, lecturing, and using scriptures" in Fujian. Guangxi: lead the Buddhist community to form a good atmosphere of reading, studying, teaching and practicing the classics, and guide Buddhist believers to believe and do well In the middle of May, the 2022 Guangxi Buddhist lecture and exchange and the education activity themed "love the party, love the country and love socialism" were held in Guiping city. This activity took "promoting the Sinicization of Buddhism" as the theme to carry out the preaching exchange competition, and took the learning and publicity of building a strong sense of the Chinese national community as the main content to carry out the education activity with the theme of "loving the party, patriotism and socialism". In the preaching and exchange activities, the mages, in combination with their own practice experience and understanding, guided by problems, based on Buddhist classics, combined with the preaching and exchange theme of "promoting sinicization, lighting up the human lamp" and forging a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation, fully explored the stories of the Buddhist community in the process of promoting the Sinicization of Buddhism, and promoted the purity, kindness, honesty and trustworthiness in Buddhist teachings Forgiving others and other ideological contents that are consistent with the core socialist values. The lecturing exchange, learning and training deepened the master's understanding of Buddhist classics and the Sinicization of Buddhism, and effectively improved his theoretical and policy level and religious attainments. It is reported that the preaching and exchange activities of the Guangxi Buddhist Association, as an important activity for preaching and promoting Buddhism in Guangxi, have been held for 10 consecutive years. The mages participating in the activity said that the preaching and exchange activities have played a positive role in adhering to the direction of Sinicization of Buddhism, forging a strong sense of the Chinese nation community, inheriting Chinese excellent traditional culture, leading the Buddhist community in Guangxi to form a good atmosphere of reading, studying, teaching and practicing classics, and guiding Buddhist believers to be upright. (outlook new era)
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