Lin Zaiping
From Database of Modern East Asian Buddhism
Lín Zǎipíng 林宰平 (1879-1960) was a prominent Buddhist layman who taught philosophy and economics at Beijing and Qinghua Universities in the 1920s and 1930s.
Biography
Lín studied at Imperial Tolyo University, returning to China in 1907. He worked in the department of education of the nascent Republic in the mid 1910s before going to work at Běijīng University.
After the death of Liáng Qǐchāo 梁啓超, Lín was asked by Liáng's family to edit his collected works, which he did. They were published as 飲冰室集 in 1932 in 40 volumes.
He was a member of the Three Times Study Group (Sānshí xuéhuì 三時學會), a group of elite Běijīng-based Buddhist laymen.
After the founding of the PRC in 1949, he became a founding member of the the Chinese Buddhist Association 中國佛教協會.
Important Works
- Běiyún jí 北雲集
Notable Students
Notes
References
- Template:ZFJS Pp. 1.243－244.
- Template:XFRC Pp. 1.199c-200a; 2.1443a.
- 负暄琐话
