佛教只是张謇用以迎合大众心理,动员社会力量支持慈善公益事业的工具,而不是他投身慈善事业的原因。

• Though he used Buddhism as a tool to cater the common people’s mentality and gain supports from them for his philanthropic causes, he had never been a real Buddhist, and Buddhism was not the very cause of his throwing himself into the philanthropic causes.