Discover Taixu’s Scientific Thoughts,Know The Humanistic Buddhism

Tai Xu (1889-1947), a famous Buddhist leader, Buddha scientist with profound attainments and a thinker in Republic of China, is a leader of Buddhist reform movement in modern China. Tai Xu wrote many works, and his ideas developed the spirit of Mahayana Buddhism which advocates the Mahayana Buddhist involvement in the world and the spirit of harmony. Related to the prevailing political, economic, social, cultural, religious, philosophical, scientific, technological and cultural exchanges, etc, his thoughts have a wide range of rich content. Living in the times of the modern scientific making great progress and democratic politics flourishing, he timely insighted and grasped the scientific trend of the times, and on this basis actively seek means to rehabilitate and develop the Buddhism. He worked on the reform of traditional Buddhism and created modern Buddhism theory with the core of Humanistic Buddhism.Tai Xu’s the humanistic Buddhism theory is to construct life and concern about human beings in the essence. It aims at pursuing the peace of the world and the harmony of the society. In this paper, the writer introduces all life and the main content of his humanistic Buddhism, and explores the reasons for the formation of his humanistic Buddhism theory, and from four aspects to show the positive connection between modern society, politics, economy, scientific technology and the formation of the humanistic Buddhism, in order to reveal that science is an important reason for the formation of his humanistic Buddhism theory.The content of Tai Xu’s scientific thoughts is very rich. In his scientific thoughts, he elaborates Tai Xu’s scientific thoughts, the relationship between science and Buddhism. According to Tai Xu’s view, science and Buddhism are close and interlinked. In Tai Xu’s scientific ideas, it also contains the cultural values of science and Buddhism, and he elaborates his related opinions on the influential role of science and Buddhism to China’s new cultural construction. Besides, Tai Xu made some ponders on ethics problems caused by the development of science and technology in his books.Tai Xu’s scientific thoughts and his Humanistic Buddhism theory show us that there aren’t any conflicts between the science and the Buddhism, and they are compatible and harmonious. They can work together to enhance the prosperity of our society.Tai Xu’s understanding on the relationship between the Buddhism and science provides us the following significance on getting to know the Buddhism and science. One is that Tai Xu attached importance to science’s positive role and function in the process of humanistic Buddhism construction. Another is his scientific thoughts deepens our understanding about the relationship between the Buddhism and science. And the third one is that he emphasized the science and Buddhism benefit from each other with the different quality. Tai Xu’s ideas have important inspirations and significance for us. They will be helpful to understand and reflect on science better, to inherit and carry forward the ideological essence of Chinese traditional Buddhism, to better explore and understand the relationship between science and religion in order to promote healthy development of Buddhism and science in the modern society.