In 2002, in order to inherit traditional Buddhist cultural crafts, create a modern Buddhist cultural industry, and enhance Buddhist cultural exchanges around the world, we are based in Hong Kong, backed by the motherland, and facing the world, strengthening Buddhist culture to keep pace with the times, and promoting Buddhism. The spirit of tolerance and fraternity promotes Buddhist culture to be academic, educational, and scientific, making Buddhist culture artistic, life-oriented, and modernized and has a comprehensive social influence. It also carries out Buddhist cultural charity work, correctly guides believers, distinguishes and opposes The 92-year-old Zhuang Lao and Tibetan Buddhist leader Tulku Pema Osel Rinpoche made meaningful contributions to the fight against religious extremist forces, violent terrorism and cult activities, and safeguarded national unity, social stability and world peace. Founded the Hong Kong Buddhist Cultural Industry, a non-profit charity organization. Since the establishment of the industry, it has made great contributions to promoting Buddhism, promoting world peace and social harmony, with footprints all over the world.

Introduction

Hong Kong Buddhist Culture Industry was founded in 2002. It is a non-profit charity organization registered in Hong Kong. In the past few years, it has been trusted by the central government, the SAR government and all religious circles. Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, is the honorary chairman of the association. He has also received the late Mr. Fok Yingdong, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Gao Siren, director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government, Dr. Tsang Xianzi, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Mr. Tsang Yam-kuen, chief executive of the Hong Kong SAR, and Mr. Donald Tsang, chief executive of the Macau SAR. More than 50 congratulatory messages were written by the Chief Minister, Mr. Ho Hau Wah, Elder Yicheng, President of the Chinese Buddhist Association, as well as elders from various monasteries, mountains and people from all walks of life. The association has 118 members, consisting of celebrities, Buddhist leaders and leaders of different religions. They are distributed in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, India, Mongolia, South Korea, Bhutan, Thailand, Italy, Singapore and other countries around the world. Everywhere is an international platform that accommodates different religious sects, different Buddhist sects, and people of different religions who are interested in Buddhist culture.

Purpose

Purpose:

Committed by various sects in the Buddhist world, the business community, the cultural and artistic community, the media sector, community leaders, believers of various sects and social celebrities Composed to create a platform for people or organizations interested in Buddhist culture.

Principle:

Southern, Northern, Sutra, Esoteric, monk, lay, believer, and non-believer can all participate equally.

Origin

The reason for the establishment of the Association: There are fewer and fewer elderly people in this world - the following excerpt is from an exclusive interview with Hong Kong's "Prosperity" magazine

When the association was founded, Zhuang He is 92 years old and has already gained countless public opinions. Moreover, he is not a Buddhist himself. Why did he still found this association? Mr. Zhuang said methodically: "I think Buddhism is very good. It advocates harmony and has a good purifying effect on the human spirit. Promoting Buddhism is good for society, the country, the nation, and even the entire world. With the spirit of Buddhism, , let the people of the world move towards peace and harmony. Kindness and compassion are very useful and beneficial to the world, so I think it is more important and needed at this time than ever. ”

The elderly Zhuang Lao has a flexible and clear mind. Even before the founding of the association, he often talked about everything with Tulku Pema Osel Rinpoche, another founder of Hong Kong’s Buddhist cultural industry. In Rinpoche’s own words, That is: "We have nothing important, we talk about everything." Once the two of them drank tea together at Zhuang's home. Zhuang thought for a while and slowly said: "There are fewer and fewer elderly people in this world." Then there was no more Make a sound. Rinpoche said that these words were like Zen in Zen Buddhism. After hearing this, he was shocked and felt like a wake-up call. With his life wisdom, Mr. Zhuang feels that there are fewer and fewer old people with wisdom, status, and experience in society, that is, fewer and fewer people with inner meaning. As a result, the entire society has become more and more impetuous, superficial, and unreasonable. reality. Mr. Zhuang said: "I think that in the development of modern society, everyone is mainly utilitarian. Too much utilitarianism is not good for society. I still think that harmony between everyone and society is the most important, because in order for society to progress, it is mainly Rely on this spirit. Leaving this spirit to completely pursue fame and fortune or focusing on this thing will cause many obstacles in society, and things that should not happen between people can reconcile this thing (utility). " Both of them felt that society needed righteousness and orthodox Buddhism, so they came up with the idea of ??establishing a Buddhist cultural industry.

Mr. Zhuang said clearly: "I think the Buddhist cultural industry is just the beginning in Hong Kong. No one has said this in the past. It is quite difficult to implement such a new concept, but we It is also necessary to overcome all difficulties and do what should be done. If the concept is right and it is good for society, we will take it step by step. I believe this will also have a good effect on the country, because the country has been relatively turbulent in the past. In the past period, after liberation, there were many struggles among people's hearts, especially after the Cultural Revolution. People in this society were not harmonious with each other. However, after the reform and opening up, our country was led by the economy, so now After the change, I think I have to change one concept. Once the concept changed, we talked about struggle, and now we talk about harmony. We advocate hard work, production and the development of spiritual civilization. In addition to material civilization, we also pay attention to spiritual civilization, which exactly requires Buddhism. to promote this culture.

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Structure

Buddhist culture + industry--the following excerpts are from an exclusive interview with Hong Kong's "Prosperity" magazine

In fact, the name "Hong Kong Buddhist Culture Industry" has far-reaching significance , which contains the purpose of founding the association. In the words of Mr. Zhuang: “Because Buddhism has no industrial support, it seems to be very absolute, and it seems to only engage in spirituality and not material things, but in fact it is the same thing. We need certain materials to develop our spirit. Everyone knows that there is material support. There is no contradiction between the two. "

Tulku Pema Osel Rinpoche explained: "'Buddhism' is inner and spiritual. To promote this 'culture', we must use specific expressions, such as Buddha statues and music. , books and newspapers, etc.; and 'industry' means 'convenience and wisdom', which is the language of Buddhism. 'Convenience' means 'method', 'material', which can be expressed in material ways, such as Buddha statues, and ' Wisdom is the "spirit" of inner cultivation. The combination of the two is the combination of spirit and matter, that is, "industry". ”

Three core values

Talent industry, Buddhist art industry and Buddhist media industry constitute the three core values ??of Hong Kong’s Buddhist culture and art industry. According to Tulku Pema Osel Rinpoche According to reports, the association has 118 members, all of whom are like-minded or well-known people who are interested in Buddhist culture. These members are divided into two levels. At the monk level, they include many religious leaders of Buddhism, and at the religious level. Generally speaking, the association does not have a Buddhist sect. The rest are community leaders, celebrities, media leaders and celebrities from all walks of life, including cultural figures, famous I Ching scholars, as well as people from Christianity and Taoism.

Buddhist art. Industry is an indispensable part of the association. The craftsmanship of the wooden Buddha statues, glazed Buddha statues and pure gold Buddha statues produced by the association has reached world-class standards. Most of the designs are undertaken by Tulku Pema Osel Rinpoche. , and every Buddha statue is personally supervised by him.

The media industry is a means for the association to promote the development of Buddhist culture at the grassroots level. The association has its own Prajna TV station, which is responsible for filming and producing Buddhist programs; Tulku Pema Osel Rinpoche said that his own Buddhist newspaper has also cooperated with an art production company in Beijing to produce relatively modern and high-quality Buddhist programs, performed by well-known singers, that are suitable for both refined and popular tastes and cater to the tastes of young people. The situation faced by Buddhism is that it is relatively closed and has no modern packaging. The Association’s innovation in this area is believed to break through the bottleneck of promoting Buddhism to young people. The three core values ??are closely linked to each other and promote Buddhist culture. develop.