The modern transition of Taiwanese Buddhist Monastery ~ A Comparison Between the Kai-yuan and the Miao –shin Temples in Tainan

• Main Authors: Kung-mei Yang, 楊宮妹(釋如微)
• Other Authors: Yuan-lin Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tm4m7a

碩士 === 南華大學 === 宗教學研究所 === 93 === 　　The topic of this thesis mainly concerns about how Taiwanese Buddhists overcome many social and political difficulties and develop the present full-fledged monastic institution. To present the characteristics of the transition from the traditional Chinese form of monastery to the modern Taiwanese one, this thesis provides a comparison between the Kai-yuan and the Miao-shin monastery-temples, both of which are located in Tainan, the oldest city and the earliest Buddhist center of Taiwan, founded during the Dutch and late Ming period of the first half of the seventeenth century. This comparison is based upon the distinctive historical origin, founding idea and the process of modern transition between these two temples. Textual-historical analysis in combination with fieldwork is adopted in this work in order to achieve the following four goals: 　 （1）to understand the difference between the Kai-yuan and the Miao-shin on the historical context of modern transition, particularly, regarding the heritage of Zen Buddhism; （2）to understand the influence of modernization in post-War II Taiwan to the development of the early-founded Buddhist Monastery, i.e., the Kai-yuan; （3）to understand this influence to the development of the newly-founded Buddhist Monastery, i.e., the Miao-shin; （4）to analyze and compare the economic, political and social environments in which these two temples have developed and faced challenge in order to picture the characteristics of Buddhism in contemporary urban Taiwan. 　　 　　This thesis concludes three significant points as below: (1) to reflect the new face of the traditional Taiwanese Buddhism. (2) to exhibit the process and difficulty of the “humanity Buddhism” reform in modern Taiwan. (3) to prove that there is no differentiation between the traditional Taiwanese Buddhism and the “humanity Buddhism.”