Being Good: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life
Fo Guang Shan (Kaohsiung) · 2009
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Hsing Yun
Hsing Yun
1927 CE–2023 CE · Modern · Jiangdu (Yangzhou)
1927–2023 CE
Hsing Yun (1927–2023 CE) was a Chinese-born monk who built one of the largest Buddhist organizations of the modern era and a leading exponent of Humanistic Buddhism. Born near Yangzhou in Jiangsu and ordained young in the Linji Chan tradition, he moved to Taiwan in 1949 and in 1967 founded Fo Guang Shan, which expanded into a worldwide network of temples, universities, publishing, and charitable work, and the international Buddha's Light lay association. He emphasized education, social service, and bringing Buddhist practice into everyday life. His career is extensively documented.
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Jiangdu (Yangzhou)
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DOCUMENTED ORIGIN: born to a poor family near Yangzhou; ordained as a boy in the Linji Chan lineage at a monastery on Mount Qixia.
About Jiangdu (Yangzhou)
Jiangdu, a district of Yangzhou in Jiangsu province, China, was the birthplace, in 1927, of Hsing Yun, who entered monastic life as a youth at Qixia Monastery near Nanjing and later founded the Fo Guang Shan order of humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan.
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Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Hsing Yun’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.