Foyin diantai 佛音電台

Buddha's Voice Radio XMHB: Fóyīn diàntái 佛音電台 XMHB

This was the first Buddhist radio station in China (and possibly the world).

• 1930s - 1940
• Location(s): Shànghǎi 上海

The nightly broadcasts that comprised this station's primary activity were transmitted from the headquarters of the Buddhist Pure Karma Society 佛教淨業社 at the Enlightenment Garden 覺園. Broadcasts were made up of liturgical chants, modern Buddhist songs (often drawn from Hóngyī's 弘一 Qīngliáng Song Collection 清涼歌集), dharma talks, and other things.

The radio was shut down by Japanese forces in 1940.

Notes

References:

• Tarocco, Francesca. The Cultural Practices of Modern Chinese Buddhism: Attuning the Dharma. New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 129-130.
• Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Pp. 76-77.