Wei, Chang-hai. "New Ideas of the East Asian Buddhism in Modern Times." Journal of New Religions 15 (October 2006): 11-32.

Abstract

In modern times, some Buddhism organizations of the East Asian nations including China, Korea, and Japan have put forward new ideas and viewpoints which are different from ideas of the traditional Buddhism. The new ideas have the characteristics of new religions in the system of modern Buddhism. The new religious includes the Buddhism within the world of humans in modern Chinese Buddhism, the Won-Buddhism and the Tiantai School in Korea Buddhism and the sokagakkai in Japan. The ideas claimed and carried out by these new religions are quite similar. This paper will discuss the similarities and their significant from five aspects which are advocating of humanism, attaching importance to human life, and developing the enterprise and organizing of lay religious practitioners.