Music, Ritual, and Stage─The Study of Fo Guang Shan Musical Concerts of Taiwan

• Main Authors: Hui-Chen Lu, 呂慧真
• Other Authors: 陳碧燕
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84764467654446476323

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 民族音樂學研究所 === 95 === The founder of Fo Guang Shan Monastery of Taiwan, Venerable Hsing Yun, deeply realizes the music’s great evangelic function and has long been promoted Buddhist music. From 1979, Venerable Hsing Yun began to hold modern Buddhist musical concerts. He combines the performance of traditional Buddhist liturgical chants with Chinese orchestra, Western symphony, and ancient Chinese Dunhuang music and dance. He thus moves the monastic performance of liturgical chants on to the stage. In addition, Venerable Hsing Yun greatly encourages people to compose modern Buddhist songs to popularize Chinese Buddhist music. By so doing, he hopes to truly practice engaged Buddhism. This thesis discusses the shift of musical presentation from the liturgy to the stage, and traces the impact of this shift in the domains of monastery, society, and Buddhist doctrinal practice.