they can never advance beyond it." Don Pittman wrote a book entitled “Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism” in which he analyzes Taixu's reform efforts. One of his reform efforts was the attempt to make Pure Land Buddhism a reality. If today, based on good knowledge of our minds, we can produce pure thoughts and work hard to accomplish good deeds. How hard can it be to transform an impure China into a Chinese pure land?... All persons have this force of mind, and since they already have the faculty (benneng) to create a pure land, they can all make the glorious vow to make this world into a pure land and work hard to achieve it." This among many things was one of Taixu's greatest ideas of reform. He believed that the only way to end the suffering on this world was to bring the Pure Land to it. He attempted to do so through many means, including the reorganization of the Sangha. Unfortunately for Taixu, his attempts at global propagation of the Dharma failed. Most of his institutions that were set up to help bring about this better life were crushed by many different things, including the communists. See also Chiang Kai-shek References Sources Taixu, "Science and Buddhism." Lectures in Buddhism. Paris, 1928 Taixu, Taixu dashi quanshu. (The Complete Works of the Venerable Master Taixu), 20 vols. Taipei, 1956. Pittman, Don A. Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism: Taixu's Reforms. Hawai'i UP. Honolulu, 2001. Ritzinger, Justin R. Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism. Oxford UP, Oxford, 2017. Welch, Homles. The Buddhist Revival in China. Harvard UP. Cambridge, 1968. Further reading Goodell, Eric (2008). Taixu’s Youth and Years of Romantic Idealism, 1890–1914, Chung-Hwa journal of Buddhist Studies 21, 77-121 External links The Short Record of Master Taixu Taixu: To Renew Buddhism and Save the Modern World Taixu Biography An Interfaith Dialogue 1890 births 1947 deaths Qing dynasty Buddhist monks Buddhism and science Chinese scholars of Buddhism Rinzai Buddhists Chinese anarchists Republic of China Buddhist monks Writers from Jiaxing Writers about religion and science 19th-century Chinese people 20th-century Chinese people Republic of China writers Chinese spiritual writers People of the 1911 Revolution 20th-century Buddhist monks