(XII.)佛光山该何不足之 － How Fo Guang Shan Falls Short Of This

The people who fled to Taiwan at the time of the Revolution on the Chinese mainland were, in general, priveleged classes. They were those who had enough money and/or smarts to evade what they had accurately deduced would be a set of really miserable political, economic, and cultural conditions under Communist rule. That’s why there was subsequently an ‘economic miracle’ on Taiwan. These people were very good at money. And what they found on Taiwan was a robust and thoroughly creative island people who, if given half a chance to be prosperous, which they weren’t given under Japanese rule as “Formosa,” would certainly do that. Hence down the line we find the industious, creative, sensitive, financially hip, fun-loving, peace-loving, politically conflicted, literate, and culturally sophisticated people that we love as the Taiwanese. Oh, and hey, did I mention “sensitive” yet?

大体来说，逃跑到台湾在中国大陆中共革命成功的时候（1948左右）的移民是手术台队级。他们是那场的有钱、轻快足够而会逃避他们已经曾准确看出为一场政治上、 经济上、和文化上的灾难在大陆中共的领导下。 这就是随后在台湾的 “经济奇迹” 的原因。这些（转移到台湾的）人民到底很诀窍赚钱。他们发现在台湾的是一族强健的、 全面创造性的岛民。要是被供给了（在日本的统治没得到的）少许的机会，台湾岛民一定会变成繁荣。从此而发展的，现在发现的是一场勤劳的、创造性的、敏感的、 财政上会意的、爱好乐趣的、爱好和平的、政治上懷矛盾的、精通文学的、文化上老练的、我们所热爱为台湾人的民族。还哦，嘿，我曾提到了 “敏感的” 没有？

You might wonder, if you did not know them, why I did not write “Buddhist” in this list of defining characteristics, since my primary way of knowing them is through a Buddhist temple which is systematically trying to foment a ‘Buddhist miracle’ on the scale of Taiwan’s previous ‘economic miracle.’ It’s because, dear reader, the majority of this Island isn’t Buddhist.

你 不认识他们的话，也可以想知道为什么我没包括 “信佛教的” 在我这个特点单，已经认为我最基本了解他们的法子是从参加一门有系统地尝试引发相似台湾的”经济奇迹”的”佛教奇迹”之台湾佛教中信。就是因为， 珍宝的读者，这个岛的大部分不信佛教。

Please check these stats. Although NOT the majority, there has been a concerted effort on the part of Taiwan Buddhists to portray Taiwan as a Buddhist island. Wrong! Taiwan is less than half Buddhist. Looking superficially at these figures, Buddhists barely outnumber the Taoists, and there is an important Christian minority on Taiwan. Chiang Kai-Shek was a Christian. But in actual fact, if you look closely, many of the non-Christian and non-Taoist groups listed here are, in fact, Taoist. If those are included, the total Taoist population of Taiwan outnumbers the Buddhists. Say again: Buddhism has neither an absolute nor a relative majority in the number of its members on Taiwan. The books have been cooked, and there has also been a Buddhist propaganda campaign, which is in full cry online, to obscure these facts.

请检查这些统计。虽然不构成为台湾的大部分， 台湾的佛教徒曾提升台湾为专信佛教的一场强烈真挚的努力。错了！台湾的人口小于一半信佛教。在表面性的看这些数量，道教仅仅的次佛教，而且台湾有一个相当数量的基督教人口。蒋介石曾信基督教。但是，在其实上，你亲密的看，许多所列出的非基督教和非佛教的组织居然适当地属于道教。要是把那些组织排到道教团，道教的人口则比佛教的大。化言辞说：在台湾，佛教的人口比道教的没有一个绝对多数、还没有一个相对多数。 人口统计的帐书被造假了，加上一场正在高潮的在线佛教宣传运动，总为隐藏这些事实。

But even more important than that, consider this: does running away from trouble, as the founders of the current regime on Taiwan did, give you some inside track on the Buddhadharma? I don’t see any “Right Capital Maintenance,” or any “Right Flight” in the Buddha’s Eightfold Path. It would seem to me, and the evidence is overwhelming in this material, that those in the Chinese cultural sphere of influence who are actually capable of a ‘Buddhist miracle’ are precisely those who stayed on the mainland and suffered through the whole dreadful evolution that was necessary to put an end to failed Confucianist drivel once and for all. This is particularly true of the Pure Land School, which simply grows stronger the more it’s persecuted. What we’re seeing on the mainland now is literally the reenaction of the Mahayana Revolution on a non-sectarian and social activist doctrinal basis, in the largest unified Buddhasangha on earth. The largest number of traditional Buddhist temples, many of them either stunning in their beauty or critical in the evolution of the Mahayana, or both, also exists in China.

但是比那还要紧，请考虑这个问题：相似创立台湾流通制度者之逃出困难，达不达到什么对于佛教的大利益？ 我没有看到什么 “正资本保持” 或是 “正逃跑” 在佛陀的八正道之内。于我好相似，而且这个（关于学诚法师）材料有势不可挡的证据，有引发一场”佛教奇迹”的才能者却是被抛弃在大陆、挨过全体可害怕的彻底逐出失败儒门淌口水的进化的中国人民。越被迫害越繁荣的净土宗尤其是这样。在大陆，我们现在所发现的直接的是一场有教义基础上不属于任何宗教派别的、社会交活动性的原始大乘革命的重新制定，在世界上最宏大的佛法信众之中。大部分传统的寺庙，许多或是打昏迷优美的或是在大乘进化历史上决定性的，或该两趣都有的，还存在中国。

Therefore, it would behoove Fo Guang Shan, at every level, from the founder on down, to be realistic about its limitations, and to be straighforward and thorough in seeking to overcome them. These limitations only seem to be cultural. They are not cultural. They are doctrinal. It has been thoroughly proven, by two solid millenia of experience, that there is no cultural conflict between Chinse culture and the Buddhadharma, and this certainly includes the culture of Taiwan today.

所以佛光山之各级，从开山者往下，理应实际地承认所有的不足之处，而直接地寻求把它们超越。这些不足之处仅仅似乎文化性的。 他们不是文化性的。它们是教义性的。二世纪结实的经验早曾证明，中国文化对于佛法没有什么文化矛盾，该一定包括台湾目前的文化在内。

Specifically, these are the doctrinal errors which limit Fo Guang Shan. Every single one of these, in and of itself, is ***lethal*** with respect to the transmission of the Buddhadharma to the American mainstream:

专指的，之下是佛光山所限制的教义错误。这些每一条，自体本身的，在传输佛教到美国主流上，有***毁灭性***的含意 :

1. An ideology styled “Humanistic Buddhism.” This term is a mistranslation of 人间佛教. The standard English term for that concept is Socially Engaged Buddhism. The detailed description of “Humanistic Buddhism” in Chinese is a pile of neo-Confucianist funding boilerplate, which is not what was meant by it by Thich Nhat Hanh, who is the one who first translated it correctly, or of any of both Thich and Ven. Xing Yun’s predecessors who developed and espoused this concept, which existed in Asia for at least half a century before Ven. Xing Yun butchered its meaning.

Whatever the intention of this was, its overall effect has been divisive, by giving members of Fo Guang Shan the idea they they are a special and privilged group, and by creating the false impression that the original teaching of the Buddha, as given, was not already humanistic, or “among the people” to be accurate about what was meant. In general, the Taiwanese do not need any help feeling special and privileged. They do that quite well on their own. The Zen lineages that have already been transmitted to America are already “among the people,” “engaged,” “humanistic,” “humane,” “compassionate,” or however else you want to characterize them to make people feel that they matter. No ideology is an improvement on the core values of our Founding Fathers.

1. 一门称呼 “Humanistic Buddhism” 的意识形态。这个英文名词是 “人间佛教” 的一句译错。”人间佛教” 的标准英文翻译就是 Socially Engaged Buddhism. “Humanistic Buddhism” 的中文描述当成了一堆新儒门性的资金样板文件。这不是「一行禅师」（先把这名词的正翻者）或是星云大师和一行禅师俩的发展、赞成人间佛教的前辈们所打算的意义。星云大师将人间佛教的意思弄得一团糟之前，这个观念已经宽广地存在东亚半世纪了。

不论这门意识形态是从什么意图而打算起来的，以后所生的变成了区分的结果，以送给佛光山人员团特别的、有特权的自我概念，亦以创造佛陀原始所说的法非为人间的虚假印象。大体上，台湾人并不需要帮助为得到特别或是特权的自我概念。这个任务，真是他们独立地做得很好。每一门已经传输到美国的佛教禅宗还是 “人间的”、”忙碌的”、”人道主义的”、”仁慈的”、”慈悲的”、或是你无论如何要以表示而使人民相信它们有道理。比我门立国祖父的核心价值观更好的意识形态绝对不可存在。

2. An ordained Sangha dominated and led by nuns, and an administrative line structure composed entirely of nuns. This is just plain blatant deviance from what was spoken by the Buddha. This entire organizational structure is unstable, and I’ve never met one of these people who did not need a solid year of meditation before she would be able to actually see what she has been charged to do.

2。以比丘尼被支配的、被带领的僧团，还有一场专门的从比丘尼而造成的主线行政机构。这就曾成为一场明目张胆的反对佛说法的偏离。 这个全部的行政机构是不稳定的, 而且我都没遇见一位现不需要专门坐一全年之禅才可以了解她所交给的任务是什么回事的佛光山方丈尼。

3. Pursuant to the above, the perversion of the temple liturgy by the inclusion of blatant apocrypha. This is a full-blown niusance, and my general experience with this kind of stuff has been that the only thing that can keep it going is money changing hands in the wrong direction behind the scenes.

3。由该而发展下来，从在佛堂诵明目张胆的、非佛说的伪经而败坏寺庙的礼拜形式。这就是一场巨大范围的讨厌，还有我一般的经验是：唯一能够拖延这种行为就是腐败的汇款。

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By lineage, Ven. Xing Yun is a Rinzai Zen lineage holder. There is nothing in any of these doctrinal deviations that has any precedence in the Rinzai lineage. Furthermore, there is nothing in any of these deviations that is “progressive,” or that has any progressive outcomes. Like every deviation from orthodox Buddhadharma without exception, all they do, and all they will ever do, is to cause chaos and delusion, weaken practice and prevent transmission.

宗派上说，星云大师是一位臨済宗的宗祖。这些教义偏离的内容没有任何的先烈在臨済宗。并且、这些教义偏离的内容没有什么“进步” 的意义，还不能达到什么进步的结果。相似每一个毫无例外地偏离于正传统的佛法的现象，它们完全所为的、它们将来完全所为的，就是引起混乱和错觉、 削弱修行和 防止传输。

These deviations must cease!

Namu Amida Butsu
Xing Ping

这些偏离必须停止！

南无阿弥陀佛
性平