Recently, the Quzhou Buddhist Association held the third and tenth presidents’ meeting and the third and fifth council meetings in the religious ceremonial garden. The meeting was chaired by Gen-la Myozawa, president of the Municipal Buddhist Association. Zheng Hao, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal CPC Committee, attended and spoke at the meeting, and Liao Honghua, member of the Ministerial Affairs Conference of the United Front Work Department of the Municipal CPC Committee and director of the First Division of Religious Work, attended the meeting.
The meeting organized and studied the speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the seminar to study and implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the speech of Cui Maohu, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee and director of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, when he visited the Chinese Buddhist Association, and the speech spirit of Qiu Qiwen, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and director of the United Front Work Department, at the 2023 Zhejiang Provincial New Year Forum for Religious Figures, conveyed the spirit of the fourth president’s meeting of the Eighth Council of the Provincial Buddhist Association, discussed the work summary in 2022 and the work plan for 2023 and the city, Rotational training for Buddhist clergy at the county level and work plan for innovative practical activities of “cultural education”. The meeting also informed the financial revenue and expenditure of the Municipal Buddhist Association in 2022, adopted personnel adjustments, and made work arrangements for the Buddhist work in Quzhou City in 2023.
During the meeting, the Quzhou Municipal Sect Bureau conducted a democratic evaluation and comprehensive evaluation of the leadership team and members of the leading group of the Municipal Buddhist Association in 2022.
The meeting pointed out that last year, the Quzhou Buddhist Association was rated as an advanced collective in the national religious circles, and such achievements are the joint efforts of everyone, and also the party committee and government highly affirmed the work of Buddhism in Quzhou. In the past year, the work of the Quzhou Buddhist Association has been remarkable: ideological and political study has been tightened, the construction of key monasteries has advanced rapidly, the ascension ceremony of the abbot of the ordination master has been held, and the epidemic prevention and control of religious activity sites has been actively done, and good results have been achieved in guiding believers and public welfare undertakings.
The meeting hoped that the Quzhou Buddhist Association would continue to do a good job in five aspects in the new year: first, to promote the Sinicization of Buddhism to a new height; Second, we must make new achievements in accelerating the construction of “one county and one temple (view)”; Third, it is necessary to achieve new results in actively carrying out sermons and exegesis; Fourth, new breakthroughs should be made in comprehensively administering religion strictly; Fifth, we must have new responsibilities on guarding the bottom line of safety and promote the Buddhist cause in Quzhou to a new level.
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