ABSTRACT
Master Yinshun 印順導師 (1906–2005) was one of the most influential Chinese scholar-monks of the twentieth century. His monastic career spanned seventy-five years, spent on the mainland, in Hong Kong, and in Taiwan. He was the first Chinese monk to apply the critical historical method to the study of Buddhism and one of the first to take Indian rather than Chinese Buddhism as his field of investigation. His published works, in over forty volumes, cover virtually the entire range of Indian Buddhism, from its origins to its demise. His philosophy of “Human-Realm Buddhism” (Renjian Fojiao 人間佛教) has set the parameters that have shaped the contemporary expression of Buddhism in Taiwan and elsewhere in the Chinese Buddhist world.
