Shanghai foxue yuan 上海佛學院

Shànghǎi Buddhist Seminary (Shànghǎi fóxué yuàn 上海佛學院) was a seminary run in Shànghǎi during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Contents 1 History 2 Notable Teachers 3 Notable Students 4 Notes 5 References

History

• 1942 - 1949, 1983^[1] - present
• Location(s): Yùfó Temple 玉佛寺, Shànghǎi 上海

This Buddhist seminary 佛學院 was started by Zhènhuá 震華 shortly after he became abbot of Yùfó Temple 玉佛寺. He was discouraged by the lackadaisical attitude he saw among the monks who sought shelter in Shànghǎi 上海 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

During the war this seminary published the periodical Miàofǎ lún 妙法輪. After the war, Tàixu1 太虛 and Fúshàn 福善 published the magazine Juéqún zhōubào 覺群週報 here.

After being closed during the Cultural Revolution, this seminary is once again actively training monks.

Notable Teachers

• Chāochén 超塵
• Léngdìng 楞定
• Zhènhuá 震華

Notable Students

Notes

1. ↑ According to the official website for the temple.

References

• Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó Fójiào jìndài shǐ 中國佛教近代史 (A History of Early Contemporary Chinese Buddhism), in Dōngchū lǎorén quánjí 東初老人全集 (Complete Collection of Old Man Dongchu), vols. 1-2. Taipei: Dongchu, 1974 P. 1.215.
• Yú Língbō 于凌波, ed. Xiàndài Fójiào rénwù cídiǎn 現代佛教人物辭典 (A Dictionary of Modern Buddhist Persons), 2 vols. Taipei: Foguang, 2004. Pp. 2.1600b-1601-b (from the entry for Zhènhuá 震華)