More than 20%of temples in China have commercialized Chinese Buddhist Association: Num

A number of articles appearing on the Internet stated that "Statistics of the Chinese Buddhist Association shows that as of the end of 2020, there are 3,2600 existing temples in China, of which more than 20%of temples have been commercialized, mainly concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Zhejiang"Waiting for the place", the Chinese Buddhist Association issued a statement on Tuesday (September 13) stating that the association has never issued similar reports or statistics.It has caused serious damage to the reputation and image of the association and the national Buddhist community.

According to the WeChat account of the Chinese Buddhist Association, in March 2016, some people mentioned that "the Chinese Buddhist Association pointed out in the research report of the current 3,2600 temples in China, the commercialization of the Chinese Buddhism in the Han Dynasty BuddhismIt is relatively serious, but nearly 80%of the temples are not commercialized. Commercial temples are concentrated in some economic cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong, such as provinces and cities such as Henan, Sichuan, Zhejiang.In other words, more than 20%of temples in China have been commercialized, with a total number of more than 6,500 seats. "

Recently, a number of articles have appeared again on the Internet to quote the above text and data, and change it to the noodles.For "statistics from the Chinese Buddhist Association, as of the end of 2020, there were 3,2600 existing temples in China, of which more than 20%of the temples have been commercialized, mainly concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Henan, Sichuan and other places."

The Buddhist Association pointed out in the statement that the above content is disperse through maliciously speculating the commercialization of Buddhism, and wantonly discredit Chinese Buddhist temples and Buddhist faculty, which has caused serious damage to the reputation and image of the association and the national Buddhist community.The relevant rights and interests of the association have caused extremely bad social impact.

After investigation, the association has never released similar reports or statistics.Relevant authors have recently issued a public apology statement to acknowledge that "the data and information references have nothing to find out" and sincerely apologize to the Chinese Buddhist Association.

The statement appealed to the majority of believers to lighten their eyes, discern right and wrong, and do not believe in rumors.It is hoped that the media and individuals will delete articles containing unprecedented information as soon as possible to stop the behavior of harming the reputation of the Buddhist world and infringing the rights and interests of the Buddhist world.