Life education is one of the important elements in Buddhism. As the main trend in today's Buddhism development, Humanistic Buddhism, especially the Humanistic Buddhism advocated in Foguanshan Temple, founded by Venerable Hsing Yun in 1966, is unique in theory and rich in practice when it comes to life education and has provided valuable experiences in helping modern people get over their confusion about life. Nowadays the phenomenon that college students commit suicide is getting worse. Humanistic Buddhism should as capable of playing an active role in dealing with this phenomenon. The reason for college students' commit suicide are various, but the crux of this problem is that those students lack proper understanding of the meaning of life. Humanistic Buddhism should help coolege students have a better understanding of life's sunyata, the nature id life, so as inspire their positive awareness of life, encourage them to go through the dark days bravely and build up confidence in life.
