將佛教信仰深植於人間關懷 — 印順導師「人間佛教」思想脈絡淺探=Incorporating Buddhist Faith in Caring for Humanity: Investigating the “Human-Realm Buddhism” Ideology of Master Yinshun
Humanistic Buddhism, as it is known in contemporary Chinese, is a belief system held by many Buddhists today. The true implication and essence of the ideology of Humanistic Buddhism serves as a reflection on the morphology of the faith in the Buddha’s original intents and subsequent deviations of the true meaning of the Buddha’s teachings resulting from the developmental process of Buddhism in India and China. Such considerations, whether unintentionally neglected or intentionally disregarded, have led to an ambiguous boundary between “purifying the secular world” and “complying with the secular world” in the practice of Buddhism. Hence, this is a predicament in which conformity with secularity turns into vulgarity. In fact, as a theoretical framework of Humanistic Buddhism, Master Yinshun’s thoughts and ideological structure of Human-Realm Buddhism have embodied the original intents of the Buddha and revealed the true meaning of the Buddha’s teachings, whether from aspects of its formation, development, and propagation, or its core values and constituent factors. By adhering to the ultimate goal of “focused on humans,” the path to Buddhahood advocated by Master Yinshun’s Human-Realm Buddhism is applied as an industrious practice of compassionate vows in this world.
