On August 8th, the Ningbo Buddhist Association held the 10th Executive Director (Expanded) Meeting of the 10th Board of Directors at the Zhejiang Buddhist Institute (Headquarters), focusing on deploying the special education activity of “advocating frugality and avoiding extravagance”. Zhou Yuede, Deputy Director of Ningbo Citizen Religious Bureau and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group, was invited to attend the meeting.
As a disciple of Buddha, it is necessary and of great significance to inherit and promote the spirit of “respecting frugality and avoiding extravagance”.
The meeting emphasized that the Buddhist community in the city should increase their awareness, actively practice the spirit of “respecting thrift and avoiding extravagance”, always uphold the concept of simplicity, more consciously practice thrift, oppose waste, eliminate hedonism and extravagance, strictly prevent comparison with vanity and greed for foreign things, strictly adhere to discipline and practice, correct the religious style, improve their cultivation, maintain the bottom line of religious rules and regulations, enhance their determination to practice diligently, cultivate noble religious ethics, and establish good guidance, Create a good atmosphere and transmit positive energy.
The meeting decided that the Academic Affairs, Ethics and Safety Construction Committee of the Municipal Buddhist Association will take the lead in organizing a themed seminar on “strict governance of religion, advocating frugality and avoiding extravagance”, and developing a plan for the city’s Buddhist community to carry out “frugality and avoiding extravagance” education activities. Education will lead the city’s Buddhist community to actively respond to the initiative, carry out frugality and avoiding extravagance education activities, conscientiously implement the requirements of comprehensive strict governance of religion, and resolutely curb bad practices in the Buddhist field, Assist in maintaining harmony and stability in the field of Buddhism, promote the Sinicization of Buddhism in the new era, and take practical actions to welcome the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The meeting conveyed and studied the spirit of the Central United Front Work Conference, the 15th Provincial Party Congress, and the joint initiative of national and provincial religious groups on advocating frugality and avoiding extravagance, as well as the notice of the China Buddhist Association on comprehensively carrying out the inspection and standardization of the establishment of memorial tablets in temples; Reported the work situation of the Municipal Buddhist Association in the first half of the year and the main work in the second half of the year.