Founded in 1920 by Wáng Sēnpu 王森甫[1] 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, and the Society had a reciprocal relationship with the Wuchang 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 正信周刊.
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Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968), 77－81.