Quotation from Buddhist Classics in Chinese translation is prevalent in Malaysian-Chinese prose. Generally speak-ing, quotation from Buddhist prose is meant for argument, in order to give force to one’s exposition of Buddhist tenets or strengthen one’s views. Writers, apart from transplanting knowledge, also wax lyrical by quoting from the Buddhist classics, some of them by expressing their different sentiments and views about passage of time and the world through the classics. This paper will sort out views of time and space in humanism and Buddhism before analyzing and expounding the methods with which groups of writers quote from Chinese-translated Buddhist Classics and the results achieved apart from explicating the view of time and space as exhibited in Malaysian-Chinese Buddhist prose by the way writers quote and employ the quotations, in order to explore the cultural significance behind.%马华佛教散文普遍存在着引用汉译佛典的现象。一般来说佛教散文的引用就是为了说理，即是加强自己对佛教教义的论述或加强个人的观点。然而不仅是知识的移植，其实作者有时也通过引用汉译佛典来抒情，有些着重于运用佛经抒发他们对时间的消亡以及人世现象的不同感受与看法。本论文先梳理人道主义与佛教的时空观，再分析与阐述作者群引用汉译佛典的方式与其所达致的效果，并通过作者对引文的择取及运用方式阐明马华佛教散文所展现的时空观，以探究背后的文化意蕴。
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