「佛化新青年」是20世紀20年代出現的以改造舊佛教、創造新佛學為目的，以佛法為本、兼收西方文化並以之為用的佛界革新青年。他們在宣傳和肯定新文化的同時也用佛法批評「統攝」之。「佛化新青年」激進與保守兼具的新佛學理論，儘管存在不足，但仍有其文化價值。近百年來，如何兼融中西文化，創造出促進國家現代化發展和國民進步的新文化體系一直是中國面臨的最大文化問題，因此，多方借鑒對今人來說十分必要。 The "Buddhist New Youth" refers to a group of young reformists emerging in the 1920s in the Buddhist community, whose aim was to reform the old Buddhism and create a new Buddhism by absorbing Western culture and practicing it on the basis of Buddhist doctrines. They advocated and acknowledged the New Culture, and meanwhile criticized and synthesized it with Buddhist doctrines. The new Buddhist theory of the Buddhist New Youth, both radical and conservative, has its own cultural value in spite of imperfections. For nearly a century, the biggest question in the cultural field in China has always been how to establish a new cultural system that embodies both Chinese and Western cultures and fosters the modernization and the progress of the nation. Therefore, it is necessary for the people today to draw lessons from different fields.
