Master Zhaocheng: Chinese Religion "Going Global" Promotes Chinese Culture to Go Global
2023-08-09
The 'going out' of Chinese religion has promoted mutual understanding, exchange, communication, and integration among different cultures and beliefs around the world, effectively promoting the internationalization of Chinese culture. Recently, Master Zhao Cheng, Vice President of the Shanghai Buddhist Association and abbot of Longhua Ancient Temple, introduced in an interview with China News Agency reporters, The Longhua Ancient Temple in Shanghai and the Chinese American Museum will go to the United States in late September to hold a Buddhist cultural exhibition themed "Happy Encounter at the Longhua Festival". This Buddhist cultural exhibition involves religion, art, vegetarianism, and other aspects, aiming to showcase the excellent traditional culture of Chinese Buddhism to the outside world. The main gate of Longhua Ancient Temple in Shanghai. The spread of Buddhism in Shanghai can be traced back to the Wu Chiwu period of the Three Kingdoms period (238-251 AD). It is said that both the Longhua Ancient Temple and Jing'an Temple in Shanghai were built during this period. With the economic development and population increase in Shanghai, Buddhism in Shanghai has been able to continue to develop. There are more than 120 Buddhist temples in Shanghai. Longhua Ancient Temple has a history of over 1700 years and is one of the oldest temples in Shanghai. Longhua Ancient Temple has a tradition of promoting Buddhism overseas. The former abbot, Elder Mingyang, accompanied Master Yuanying to Nanyang in the 1930s and 1940s to promote Buddhism. After the reform and opening up, he represented Chinese Buddhist foreign affairs on more than 30 visits. Master Zhaocheng stated that Longhua Ancient Temple adheres to the governance philosophy of "promoting Buddhism through culture, cultivating monks through education, repaying society through charity, and purifying people through cultivation". It adheres to the direction of Sinicization of Buddhism, continuously promotes the concept of "human Buddhism", promotes Chinese religion to "go global", and closely carries out Buddhist exchanges with overseas countries and regions. For many years, Longhua Ancient Temple has taken the opportunity of promoting Dharma exchange and has held exchange and discussion activities in North America, Oceania, Europe, and other countries. It has told the story of Chinese Buddhism well, enabling excellent traditional Chinese culture and Buddhism to sail together, promoting the "Longhua Sanskrit Music" to the world, and becoming a song that touches the chord of peace in the world and wishes for the peace and happiness of all beings. On September 23, 2018, the Shanghai Longhua Temple Overseas Promotion Group held a Huayan Song - Longhua Club concert at the Riverside Church in Manhattan, New York, USA, praying for world peace and favorable weather. (Courtesy of Longhua Ancient Temple) Master Zhao Cheng mentioned that in the late 1990s, he led the Longhua Ancient Temple Dharma Promotion Team to attend the Hong Kong Law Society. Starting from this visit and exchange, Longhua Ancient Temple opened a new chapter of "going out" Dharma Promotion and Exchange. Over the past two decades, there have been over 40 large-scale overseas Dharma promotion activities, involving the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Indonesia, and others. At the same time, Buddhist leaders or temple groups from the United States, Australia, Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other places visited Longhua Ancient Temple to exchange Buddhist teachings; During the visit of the Thai Consulate General in Shanghai to the Longhua Ancient Temple, he requested the temple to recite scriptures and pray for the King of Thailand. These friendly exchanges have left behind beautiful stories of world Buddhist cultural exchange. Master Zhaocheng believes that the active promotion of overseas Dharma promotion, visits and exchanges at Longhua Ancient Temple is a valuable tradition in the Buddhist community in Shanghai, and a banner for the construction and open exchange of Buddhist culture in Shanghai. The banner of extensive foreign exchanges in the Buddhist community cannot be lost, and this tradition cannot be broken. We must faithfully inherit this excellent tradition
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Source：China News Network
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