Venerable Master Hsing Yun: A Life Remembered, the eighth volume of Studies on Humanistic Buddhism, commemorates the life and legacy of Venerable Master Hsing Yun through fourteen original chapters by distinguished monastics, scholars, practitioners, and disciples from around the world. Together, these contributions offer a multifaceted exploration of the ideas, values, and institutions that have shaped Humanistic Buddhism into one of the most influential Buddhist movements of the modern era.
Organized into three thematic sections—Philosophical Vision, Ethics in Humanistic Buddhism, and The Human and Institutional Legacy—the volume examines the philosophical foundations of Humanistic Buddhism, its ethical responses to contemporary social and environmental challenges, and its enduring impact through Fo Guang Shan and the Buddha’s Light International Association (BLIA). More than a memorial volume, A Life Remembered demonstrates how Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s vision continues to inspire scholarship, spiritual practice, and compassionate engagement around the world.
Editor’s Preface vii
PHILOSOPHICAL VISION
Venerable Master Hsing Yun:
An Honest Revelation—An Open Letter 1
Most Venerable Hsin Bau:
For the Sake of Buddhism: Giving Rise to the Bodhi Mind 13
Lewis R. Lancaster:
Encountering the Extraordinary:
Meeting Venerable Master Hsing Yun 23
Juewei Shi:
Embodying Emptiness, Manifesting Wonder:
A Decadal Study of Humanistic Buddhism Centre’s Organic
Growth as Reflection of Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s Teachings 33
Yi Jizhang:
Philosophical Foundations of Humanistic Buddhism: Middle Way and Nonduality 49
Nathan Jishin Michon:
The Three Acts of Goodness as the Bricks to Build a Pure Land: Connecting Three Keys in the
Eightfold Path to Leadership and Social Change 69
ETHICS IN HUMANISTIC BUDDHISM
Miao Guang & Maria Majorie R. Purino:
Hsing Yun’s Humanistic Buddhism:
An Ethics of Care in the VUCA World 85
Henry C.H. Shiu:
Toward a Buddhocentric Environmentalism:
Humanistic Buddhism and the Cultivation of a
Pure Land on Earth 105
Tracy Liu:
Connecting the Self with Others:
The Ethics of Giving in Fo Guang Shan Humanistic Buddhism 119
Liu Qingquan:
Filial Piety and Compassion: Family Ethics in
Humanistic Buddhism and the Practice of Social Responsibility 147
David Starlyte:
The Bodhisattva in the Machine: Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s
Vision for Humanistic Buddhism in the Digital Age 173
THE HUMAN AND INSTITUTIONAL LEGACY
Sioh-Yang Tan:
Commemorating Venerable Master Hsing Yun
through an Invented Food Practice 207
Daniel Wu:
The Role of the Buddha’s Light International Association (BLIA)
in the Modern Transmission of Humanistic Buddhism 225
Lourdes S. Lim:
The Impact of Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s
Humanistic Buddhism on BLIA Philippines 251
