Explore The Modern Context Of Buddhist Social Functioning Path

Buddhism has a long history. From the feudal society to the present socialism society,Buddhism positively melts into society by its genial and friendly disposition, practicing thecreed"Benevolent and happy all living things". As time developing, the society and thecapacity of people's cognition have progressed, traditional Buddhism could not satisfy therequest of the new times and the people's needs, the background of modernization asksBuddhism to make attempts to change. Buddhism has been through for more than 2,000years in China and spreads until now, an important reason is that Buddhism can transformits function with its moral character still. Buddhism positively melts into society by itsgenial and friendly disposition and makes its own contributions to the people's happinessand welfare. Certainly, this path is by no means problem free. As Buddhism has somelong. standing problems, there are some difficult positions in the display of social functionand the transformation of its function. These are the problems that Buddhism has to solvein the future. At the same time, we also should notice the lasting topic that Buddhism hasto change the common custom but not to be changed by the common custom. This articletakes the education function and the cultural activity of Buddhism as the central point inthe background of modern age. And this article considers the display of social function inthe modernized background and the problems it faces. And we also analyses and refers theoverseas experience of Buddhism, and provides the beneficial suggestion for its socialfunction display.