Zhengxin hui 正信會

The Buddhist Right Faith Society (Fójiào zhèngxìn huì 佛教正信會) was a prominent lay Buddhist society linked with the Wǔchāng Buddhist Seminary 武昌佛學院.

History

• 1920 - ??
• Location(s): Hànkǒu 漢口

Founded in 1920 by Chén Yuánbái 陳元白, Lǐ Yǐnchén 李隱塵, Wáng Sēnfǔ 王森甫^[1] and others as the Hànkǒu Buddhist Association 漢口佛教會. It was renamed the Buddhist Right Faith Society 佛教正信會 in 1928. This was primarily a lay society, and Wáng and his successors were followers of Tàixū 太虛. The Society had a reciprocal relationship with the Wǔchāng Buddhist Seminary 武昌佛學院, which sent the Society teachers and monks, and which was financially underwritten by the Society. This Society engaged in a variety of charitable activities, including running a school. It also published Right Faith Weekly 正信週刊.

In April 1922, the Society launched a Buddhist Studies Institute 佛教講習所, which was headed by Táng Dàyuán 唐大圓.

Section Editor: Erik Hammerstrom

Notes

1. ↑ Welch gives his name as "Wang Sen-p'u", but these are the correct characters.

References

• Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Pp. 77－81.