Charity Practice Of Buddhist Temples In Xi'an

There are numerous temples in Xi'an,it's an important city to research Buddhist culture.Buddhist culture contain abundant charity cultures and thoughts,so Buddhist temples have been keeping the tradition of working on philanthropy since history began.This article is on the basis of field research,the writer investigated economic position and charity events of Xi'an Buddhist temples and divided the types of charity events into two large categories,one is social material subsidized charity,the other is religious spiritual sublime charity,the charity events include disaster relief,study assistant and free clinic,poverty relief and releasing captive animals,protecting animals,printing holy books,providing for Buddhist monks,Dharma assembly and so on.The features of Xi'an Buddhist temples charity events are what trend to spirit sublime charity activities,contingency is more than longevity,the single social material subsidized charity,and the pecuniary condition of temple is basic and so on.They play an important role in accelerating social integration,accelerating personal social progress and the supplement of social welfare and so on.According to develop Xi'an Buddhist temples charity events well,temples themselves should transform ideology,desalt religious and strengthen social ability;And they are supposed to set up Buddhist charity organizations of modernization and motivate specialization and professionalization of Buddhist charity service;They should use social work methods to accelerate professional progress and use professional skills to optimize quality of service;Then they should set up Internet charity,take advantage of science and technology to follow trend of the times closely and build modern Buddhist charity.