ABSTRACT
The human world is in flame and humanity is beset by suffering. This is the claim of Buddhism, which, unlike many other religions, pays special attention to the reality of suffering and even considers it as truth or sometimes as the right-view. The political uncertainties and social unrest characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century imposed a great deal of sorrow upon the Chinese people. The development of technology in the twentieth century had tremendously enhanced the material culture of humanity, which to a certain degree increased the human ability and confidence to deal with external, internal and social sufferings. China had suffered from a variety of disasters in the early twentieth century, and the most severe of all was the invasion from its neighbour Japan. Buddhists must align themselves with other Chinese to organize all kinds of anti-Japanese campaigns to save the nation and to strive for national liberation.
