ONE fine day in the spring of 1966, three foreign Catholic missionaries who failed to convert a young pretty Buddhist nun at a ramshackle hut in mountainous Hualien threw a provoking question at her:
“You said Buddhism teaches universal love and compassion for all living things. Why have we not seen Buddhists doing good works for society, such as setting up nursing homes, orphanages and hospitals?”
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