Publish Date:2023-03-18
I have read a book written by Li Yinqiao, one of chairman Mao’s bodyguard. According to this book, when Chairman Mao was taking a walk with LI in Yan’an one day, Mao said to him, “Let’s go see a Buddhist temple, shall we?” Li said, “What’s the point? It is nothing but a symbol of superstition.”“one-sided, one sided your thinking is. It is culture.” This also reminds me of a letter to me from Mr.Zhou Jianren after “the Cultural Revolution”, in which he told me that in the early period of the turmoil, Mr.Fan Wenlan had sent word to him that he was making up for a missed lesson by reading Buddhist books. Fan said that Buddhism in China has lasted about twenty centuries, and that it had such a profound influence on Chinese culture that one can hardly understand the cultural history of China without some knowledge of Buddhism. Finally, in 1987, I visited a Buddhist historical site in Sichuan Province and found that anti-superstition slogans were visible everywhere. Therefore, on my return, I wrote a report. After reading the report Dr.Qian Xuesen wrote to me, “Religion is a part of culture.”
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