Lin Zaiping 林宰平

Lín Zǎipíng 林宰平 (1879-1960)

Name 名: Zǎipíng 宰平 Style name 號: Běiyún 北雲 Courtesy name 字: Zhìjūn 志鈞 Dharma name 法名: Born 1879 in Fuzhou 福州 Died March 22, 1960

Notable Associates: Hán Qīngjìng 韓清淨 Hú Shì 胡適 Jiǎng Wéiqiáo 蔣維喬 Liáng Qǐchāo 梁啓超 Liáng Shúmíng 梁漱溟 Tàixū 太虛 Xióng Shílì 熊十力 Zhū Fèihuáng 朱芾煌

Article editor: Erik Hammerstrom

Lín Zǎipíng 林宰平 (1879-1960) was a prominent Buddhist layman who taught philosophy and economics at Beijing and Qinghua Universities in the 1920s and 1930s.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Important Works 3 Notable Students 4 Notes 5 References

Biography

Lín studied at Imperial Tolyo University, returning to China in 1907. He worked in the department of education of the nascent Republic in the mid 1910s before going to work at Běijīng University.

After the death of Liáng Qǐchāo 梁啓超, Lín was asked by Liáng's family to edit his collected works, which he did. They were published as 飲冰室集 in 1932 in 40 volumes.

He was a member of the Three Times Study Group (Sānshí xuéhuì 三時學會), a group of elite Běijīng-based Buddhist laymen.

After the founding of the PRC in 1949, he became a founding member of the the Chinese Buddhist Association 中國佛教協會.

Important Works

• Běiyún jí 北雲集

Notable Students

Notes

References

• Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó Fójiào jìndài shǐ 中國佛教近代史 (A History of Early Contemporary Chinese Buddhism), in Dōngchū lǎorén quánjí 東初老人全集 (Complete Collection of Old Man Dongchu), vols. 1-2. Taipei: Dongchu, 1974 Pp. 1.243－244.
• Yú Língbō 于凌波, ed. Xiàndài Fójiào rénwù cídiǎn 現代佛教人物辭典 (A Dictionary of Modern Buddhist Persons), 2 vols. Taipei: Foguang, 2004. Pp. 1.199c-200a; 2.1443a.
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