A New Form Of Humanistic Buddhism

Lasting for about 100 years after the Buddhism renaissance in China, Buddhism in both sides of the strait are oriented by Humanistic Buddhism. In the recent 30 years, urbanization in China’s mainland has made great progress. More and more areas are urbanized, and the influence of Buddhism in these areas get more and more powerful.Buddhism with such role in China’s mainland, which I called "Metropolitan Buddhism", has been taken as the topic analysed in my dissertation.The main body of my dissertation consists of 6 chapters. The first chapter, "Humanistic Buddhism studying in modern China", in which I trace the footprints of Humanistic Buddhism in both sides of the strait, highlight its characteristics and what it focus on; In the second chapter "The appearance of Metropolitan Buddhism as a new form of Humanistic Buddhism in modern China", I derive the conception of "Metropolitan Buddhism" after I analyse the problems Humanistic Buddhism faced. Which I think could resolve part of these problems. Then, I give an outline of the situation of Metropolitan Buddhism studying in the recent 10 years in China’s mainland. In the third chapter "Metropolitan Buddhism and its characteristics", I make a tentative definition of the concept of "Metropolitan Buddhism", analyse its relationship between several concepts, and give an investigation on its activities styles and characteristics. In the fourth chapter "The Role and its functions of Metropolitan Buddhism", I give an investigation on its role in politic, economy and culture, analyse its functions to the society. The fifth chapter "The transcendence and holy values of "Metropolitan Buddhism", deals mainly with the transcendence and holy values of "Metropolitan Buddhism". Which tells us in order to conserve its transcendence and holy value, how the "Metropolitan Buddhism" deals with the society in different aspects. In the sixth chapter "The future of Metropolitan Buddhism", I give my opinion what we should focus on to keep "Metropolitan Buddhism" develop in the right direction based on my analysis. After giving analysis and investigation on "Metropolitan Buddhism" in my dissertation, I think, as the new form of Humanistic Buddhism, Metropolitan Buddhism is still in its developing procedure, many of its characteristics are flexible. But, it will definitely play more important roles in modern Chinese Buddhism with the urbanization policy of our government taken in practice. It worth being studied in the coming future.