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The Buddhist Maritime Silk Road (1)
Professor Lewis R. Lancaster is the founder and Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI). With over 20 years spent on the “Atlas of Maritime Buddhism” research, Dr. Lancaster has recently entrusted his writings The Buddhist Maritime Silk Road to the Fo Guang Shan Institute of Humanistic Buddhism for translation and publication. The book comprises five chapters, to be published chronologically in this journal.
Bodhisattva Precepts and Their Compatibility with Vinaya in Contemporary Chinese Buddhism: A Cross-Straits Comparative Study (Part 1)
Bodhisattva ideas have steadily developed since medieval times, to become key characteristics of Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism. Monks and nuns in the Mahāyāna tradition generally have bodhisattva precepts conferred upon them while undergoing the Triple Platform Ordination, and adhering to both these precepts and the bhikṣu/ bhikṣuṇī precepts is a conspicuous feature of Mahāyāna monastic practice. Against this backdrop, it is worth exploring Chinese monastics’ perceptions of the bodhisattva precepts and ideal, and the practices surrounding them, in the current sociocultural contexts of Taiwan and Mainland China. Though both these regions share the same tradition of Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism, it has very different manifestations. This long-term, cross-Straits comparative study also reveals a hitherto under-theorized conflict between vinaya rules and the bodhisattva ideal.
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【佛陀紀念館實10周年紀念專書】 總論
本書的撰寫緣起,即是以「探討問題」的態度切入,過程中,僧俗之間就各種問題歷經1年多的互相攻錯,每次聚集2、30人,不亞於學術會議的論辯。也因為如此,身為歷史當事者的出家人與歷史旁觀察者的研究者,雙方之間縮短了認知上的差距,有了共通的話語權,並非僅止於一方之見。如此反身性究明事理的探討方式,得以清楚梳理佛陀紀念館其創立與10年來的擘畫經營,在佛光山整體佛教事業發展中所占的地位與具體呈現的意義。