Pure Land chanting practice is one of the most prevalent Buddhist practices among Chinese Buddhist practitioners since Tang Dynasty. In the contemporary period, Chinese Buddhism faced a lot of external challenges including the Foreign Missionary, valued the western knowledge, Taiping Rebellion, and turning the monasteries ’properties into educational usage. The practice of Chinese Buddhism was regarded as the “superstition.” Ven. Guanben in the early 1930s recompiled a new chanting music with five tunes and paces, modified the ritual hymn and strived to introduce and disseminate his ‘new Wuhui Nianfo ’to Buddhist practitioners in the Republic of China. Ven. Guanben started a revival movement of Chinese Buddhism by promoting his ‘new Wuhui Nianfo. ’ This paper investigates three strategies of Ven. Guanben disseminating ‘new Wuhui Nianfo ’in Hong Kong: 1) Ven. Guanben applied recitation of Buddha’s name as the main way to spread Buddhism, 2) to organize some groups to do the practice of recitation of Buddha’s name, 3) applying some new technologies to introduce and disseminate ‘new Wuhui Nianfo.’
