In 1999, Judith Nagata wrote the article: The Globalization of Buddhism and the Emergence of Religious Civil Society: The Case of the Taiwanese Fo Kuang Shan Movement in Asia and the West”. According to his experience of the world religious movement today, the Fo Guang Shan Monastery (hereafter called “FGS”), has shown its features of a globalizing religion as – worldly social engaged engagement and value of various dimension to the civil society and the masses. The result of his study was to figure out the ideal of Humanistic Buddhism and the achievement of Master Hsing Yun(here after called“MHY”)before1999.Aftermorethanonedecade the global movement and socially engaged activities of the FGS will be the core of this article. The author attempts to argue how the Buddhist Sangha (community) of the FGS, which was established by MHY since 1967, was considered as an International standard and what is a global connection. Master Hsing Yun is supposed to be a case study in this article.
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I.General Overview
II.Historical Overview of Taiwan’s religions before MHY arrival
III.The propagation of Buddhism in Taiwan after 1949
IV.Propagating Humanistic Buddhism IV.1 The Ideal of Humanistic Buddhism by MHY IV.2 The MHY and his achievements
V.International Dharma Propagating Activities
VI.International Buddhist Sangha and education
VII.Dynamic disciples as chair persons leading IBPS FGS branches
VIII.Leading with system
IX.Global connection and Interfaith with other religious leadership
