I heard that young people are very busy recently…in addition to eating melons on the Internet, they are also thinking of forming a group to become a monk? ? It turned out that Hangzhou Lingyin Temple was recruiting new media editors again. In fact, the Buddhist world has always been very keen on new things. Twenty-five years ago, when young people were still typing on computers and playing mine-sweeping games, the earliest portal site in the Buddhist world was born. In the past, people only knew that “the world martial arts came out of Shaolin”, but they didn’t know that “since ancient temples are multi-geeks”. The Dharma and the emerging media seem to be very different, but they merge in a special cultural space such as a temple.
This article comes from the WeChat public account:Cultural Industry Review (ID: whcypl) author: Liang Xin (cultural industry comment author), editor: Zhang Jiajun, title figure from: vision China
I heard that young people are very busy recently. Apart from being busy on the Internet while eating melons, they are also thinking of forming a group to become a monk? ? ?
It turns out that Hangzhou Lingyin Temple has edited again in the new media: check in at 8:25 every morning, get off work at 4:30 in the afternoon, get a monthly salary of five or six thousand, all KPIs follow…Tweet instantly 100,000+, The message area is envious: Buddha is simply one of the best bosses in the world! It’s just that the admission rate of one in thousands of miles has blocked the batches of “at home” who are eager to hunt for novelty. (the secular person as opposed to “outer family”)< /span>.
It can only be said that this netizen is really rare and strange! In fact, the Buddhist world has always been very keen on new things.
Twenty-five years ago, when young people were still typing on computers and playing mine-sweeping games, and Baidu, Sina, Tencent, and other websites were still missing, the earliest portal site in the Buddhist world, “Buddhism Online,” was born. . During the heyday of the site, hundreds of moderators made hundreds of BBSs discussing Buddhism.
Twenty-five years have passed. Some of these moderators have become abbots in charge of the monastery, some have become the dean of the Buddhist academy, and some have become the heads of other Buddhist media. Today, the heads of famous Buddhist websites are almost all from the “Buddhist Online” platform. “Buddhist Online” is also known as “Huangpu Military Academy of Buddhist Media People”.
△ Buddhism online official page
Silk Temple Multi-Geek
“Digital Law” internal cultivation and external development
In the past, people only knew that “the world martial arts came out of Shaolin”, but they did not know that “since ancient temples are multi-geeks”.
When Ma Yun was still buried in Beijing, the monks of Shaolin Temple had already started to practice martial arts during the day and maintain the website at night! In the second year of China’s first Internet access, In 1996, Shaolin Temple applied for its own domain name(shaolin.org.cn)——Three years earlier than QQ; in 2000, a computer room was established in the temple; in 2003, the Internet News Publicity Summit Forum was opened to the Tibetan Classics Pavilion, an exclusive online game authorized by Shaolin Temple. “The Legend of Shaolin”; in 2013, O2O was launched in the temple again, launching an online conversion service. Just provide information online, request Buddha’s attention, and confirm with the abbot’s background, you can convert to the Buddha with one click; in 2014, Shaolin Temple also authorized the mobile game group to use the Shaolin brand to develop Kungfu mobile games……
△Shaolin Temple Official Website
In fact, Shaolin Temple can only be regarded as a forward wave in the use of new media on the Internet. In the early years, there was a story about the back wave in the Internet industry: Zhang Xiaolong encountered a bottleneck in the development of WeChat, once depressed, and once lived in a retreat in Longquan Temple. When a mage in the temple was cleaning, he reattached the materials he had torn in one breath, and left a few suggestions. After reading Zhang Xiaolong, he suddenly realized that he returned to Guangzhou to concentrate on research.The system is successful.
Of course, This field of history is not based, but Longquan Temple has the title of “The First Internet Temple”.
Since 2006, Longquan Temple has been doing “touching the net” Buddhist practice: first opened the Sina blog; in 2008, the “Longquan Voice” traditional cultural website went online; in 2009, Nine Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, German, French, Western, and Thai Multi-language publicity microblogs launched simultaneously; in 2011-14, an animation production center was established to start manga promotion; 2015 The “Buddha Version Siri” created with the protagonist “Xian Er” as the prototype was born; in 2017, the artificial intelligence information center was created and the WeChat public account of “Longquan Temple Longquan Voice” was launched.
IT technology management, artificial intelligence, new media dissemination… Many people never thought that these new concepts would intersect with the ancient temple for thousands of years. The reason is that This is the attitude of Shaolin Temple and Longquan Temple actively embracing technology, and found a unique “digital law” to achieve a differentiated way of cultivating internal and external cultivation.
It is estimated that the development process of the Internet of the monastery will be more and more rapid. The Nasdaq will ring the bell, the monastery mobile phone, the monastery mobile game, the virtual master, and the intelligent AI puzzle dweller will be born one by one. Maybe in the future, you don’t have to listen to the Buddha’s face-to-face talk anymore. A mobile phone is enough.
Dharma and emerging media seem to be very different, but they are integrated in the special cultural space of the temple. Just like Master Xianxin of Longquan Temple said, the greatest commonality between the two is empirical evidence, one is external evidence, and the other is inner evidence. “Technology is the pursuit of truth in the material world, and Buddhism is the heart. The truth of the world. Many people who have made scientific achievements started with the heart that they want to contribute to humanity, and the most compassionate pursuit of Buddhism is also connected to it.”