Anhui seng xuexiao 安徽僧學校

The Ānhuī Monastic School (Ānhuī sēng xuéxiào 安徽僧學校) was a short-lived early Buddhist seminary, which provided much of the student body and teaching staff for the Mínnán Buddhist Seminary 閩南佛學院 when it began.

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

History

• 1922 - 1924
• Location(s): Yíngjiāng Temple 迎江寺, Ānqìng 安慶, Ānhuī 安徽

A Buddhist seminary 佛學院, roughly contemporary with the early Wǔchāng Buddhist Seminary 武昌佛學院. The principal of the school was Chángxǐng 常惺. When the school shut down in 1924, he went to Nánpǔtuó Temple 南普陀寺 in Xiàmén 廈門 to help start the Jǐngxián Buddhist Studies Society 景賢學佛社 (which eventually became the Mínnán Buddhist Seminary 閩南佛學院 in 1927).

Welch refers to this as the "Ānhuī Buddhist School" (安徽佛學校) or "Yíngjiāng Buddhist Seminary" (迎江佛學院) or "Ānhuī Buddhist Religious School" (安徽佛教學校)^[1] , and says it had an enrollment of about 20 monks.^[2]

Section Editor: Erik Hammerstrom

Teachers

• Chísōng 持松
• Dùè 度厄
• Huìtíng 蕙庭
• Juésān 覺三

Notable Students

• Dùhuán 度寰
• Tàicāng 太滄
• Nántíng 南亭
• Ruìjīn 瑞今
• Gǎungzhēn 廣箴

Notes

1. ↑ Welch, 319, FN 24.
2. ↑ Welch, 285.

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 Pp. 1.207-208.
• Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.
• 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. 1:954b-957b. (From the entry for Chángxǐng 常惺)