The Contemporary Development of Tibetan Buddhism in the Chinese Context
With the founding of New China and the historical development of contemporary China,the social and political conditions for the survival and development of Tibetan Buddhism,as well as its own contradictory na-ture,have undergone profound changes and made great progress.The political civilization of contemporary China and the fine traditions of Chinese culture have promoted the comprehensive development of Tibetan Buddhism in the Chinese context.Through conceptual recognition,institutional adaptation,and life integration,contemporary Tibetan Buddhism further integrates contemporary Chinese progressive thoughts and Chinese cultural concepts at the level of belief,system,and life,and continuously improves the level of development.Embodying the idea of people's subjectivity and realizing the purification of beliefs,implementing the policy of freedom of religious be-lief to form a situation of freedom of belief,implementing the idea of equality of sects and achieving the harmo-ny of sects,implementing the concept of comprehensive governance according to law and forming a pattern of governance according to law,absorbing contemporary people's democratic ideas and forming a democratic ad-ministration system for temples,drawing on modern lifestyles to modernizing and socializing temple life,all of which mark an overall improvement in the level of developing contemporary Tibetan Buddhism in the Chinese context.
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