As Master Xianxin explained to us, the monastery had devoted itself to merging Buddhist teachings and traditions with the modern world. He was a graduate of the Beijing University of Technology. Yes, a Buddhist monk with a computer science degree. He showed off thousands of volumes of ancient Buddhist literature the temple was digitizing with the help of AI. The master went on to share how the monks were using machine-based translation techniques to share their work in sixteen languages with people around the world. Modern technology was advancing some of the world’s most ancient teachings.
