近日,由台湾佛光山星云大师发起的星云文化教育公益基金会在江苏宜兴大觉寺举行揭牌成立典礼。慈悲是佛教一个最基本的观念,就是慈善与公益事业。台湾的证严法师,创办了慈济佛教慈善机构,逐渐发展为全球性的一个佛教慈善机构,同时也成为佛教慈善的典范。从九十年代末期,随着经济发展,福建、湖南、河北等省,先后成立佛教慈善基金会,其他寺院亦仿效,陆续成立类似机构。 Recently, the Nepali Culture and Education Foundation launched by Taiwan’s Fo Guang Shan Nepali Master was held inaugurated at Dajue Temple in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. Compassion is one of the most fundamental Buddhist concepts, that is, charity and public welfare. Taiwan’s Master Zheng Yan founded the Tzu Chi Buddhist Charity and gradually developed into a global Buddhist charitable organization. It has also become an example of Buddhist charity. Since the late 1990s, with the economic development, Fujian, Hunan and Hebei provinces have established Buddhist charitable foundations. Other monasteries have also followed suit and set up similar institutions one after another.