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第二屆人間佛教座談會 7國60位學者齊聚探討人間佛教
從上次6月舉辦座談會至今，12月再次舉辦，尤其看見與會學者除了研究人間佛教方面外，另有政治經濟及社會等專業領域專家，從各面向了解人間佛教發展，「這場座談會跨越藍綠，也跨越學科的藩籬，共同探討人間佛教及未來的發展。」 加州柏克萊大學教授路易斯．蘭卡斯特，從全球化解讀星雲大師人間佛教對全世界的意義，他表示，在第二次世界大戰後看到全球化發生，世界各地商人到歐洲及北美洲經商，但真正全球化的發生，是星雲大師掌握歷史關鍵，把佛法帶到全世界，看到佛法的復興，今晚要討論對於人間佛教全球化發生的理解，在座各位肩負重大責任，討論人間佛教下一步及人間佛教未來該怎麼走。蘭卡斯特教授期待學者踴躍提出對人間佛教的建議，也.....
Situating Buddhist Modernism within a Global Context: The Global Spread of Fo Guang Shan
Only in the last decades has modern Buddhism become a serious topic of academic investigation. Today, however, the field is flourishing. Modern Buddhism in its many forms is studied in many languages and disciplines. Despite this recent advancement, the subject of investigation is not always that clear. What are we talking about when we are speaking of modern Buddhism? This paper aims to tackle this question by considering the global spread of Fo Guang Shan from a transnational perspective. Transnationalism describes a recent advance within the social sciences and humanities to move away from a research approach that examines its object of interest solely by placing it within the context of one nation state. In contrast to the notion of “international,” which according to the transnational perspective refers to the relationship between states, “transnational” refers to the sustained linkages and ongoing exchanges among non-state actors that cross national borders. Thus, if we apply the transnational lens to the study of modern Taiwanese Buddhism, it follows that instead of examining the religion by solely placing it within the boundaries of the ROC, we also consider the many border-crossings, linkages, and movements between Taiwan, China, Japan, Southeast Asia and the rest of the world that have together shaped its current state.
