Adaptation to Third-Party Payments: Statistical Analysis of Digital Donations Made to Donglin Monastery

• Published in: Religions (Basel, Switzerland ) Vol. 15; no. 7; p. 797
• Main Author: Liu, Qi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.07.2024
• Subjects: Adaptation; Ancient languages; Buddhism; Buddhism and technology; Buddhists; Chinese Buddhism; Chinese history; Cosmology; digital donations; Donations; Land reform; Methods; online religion; Religion; Sanskrit; Statistical analysis; third-party payment; virtual religious groups; China

This paper explores the adaptations Buddhism has made to digital payment methods in the context of the Chinese mainland. To provide the audience with a relatively comprehensive understanding of the general context in which the new method of donation is applied, this paper first introduces the develo...