From this standpoint, he also negates himself as an inheritor of the dharma stream of Chinese Zen School, gives up his commitment as a religionist, and becomes a worldly religious scholar.

• 也就是说释圣严已经否定自己是中国禅宗法脉的继承者，同时舍弃创立理念中应当作宗教家的承诺，却扮演起自己承诺切勿为宗教学者的世俗宗教学者角色。