Shanghai shijie fojiao jushi lin 上海世界佛教居士林

Shànghǎi World Buddhist Lay Association: Shànghǎi shìjiè fójiào jūshì lín 上海世界佛教居士林

• 1918 - 1922 (when it split into the World Lay Buddhist Association 世界佛教居士林 and the Shànghǎi Buddhist Pure Karma Society 上海佛教淨業社)
• Location(s): Shànghǎi 上海

The organization was formed by a group of prominent Shanghainese Buddhists and businessmen in 1918. Owing to a disagreement among its members over the proper purpose of the group, it split in 1922 into the World Lay Buddhist Association 世界佛教居士林 and the Shànghǎi Buddhist Pure Karma Society 上海佛教淨業社. Even after the split there continued to be a great deal of overlap in the membership of the two groups.

'Notable Members:

• Wáng Yītíng 王一亭 (vice-president)
• Shī Shěngzhī 施省之 (president, 1925 - 19??)
• Xiǎnyìn 顯蔭

Notes

References:

• Jessup, James Brooks. “The Householder Elite: Buddhist Activism in Shanghai, 1920-1956.” Ph.D. Diss. University of California, Berkeley, 2010.