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* [[弘慈佛學院]] [[1924]] - [[1934]]<ref>Welch, 286.</ref> | * [[弘慈佛學院]] [[1924]] - [[1934]]<ref>Welch, 286.</ref> | ||
* [[竹林佛學院]] [[1928]] - [[1937]] | * [[竹林佛學院]] [[1928]] - [[1937]] | ||
- | * [[興善寺佛學院]] [[1932]] - ??<Ref> Yú Língbō reports that this seminary was started in [[1932]] ( | + | * [[興善寺佛學院]] [[1932]] - ??<Ref> Yú Língbō reports that this seminary was started in [[1932]] (p. 1.338c.), but Welch says it only ran from [[1922]] to [[1923]]. Welch (p. 286).</ref> |
* [[焦山佛學院]] [[1934]] - [[1937]], [[1940]] - [[1948]] (~300 total students) | * [[焦山佛學院]] [[1934]] - [[1937]], [[1940]] - [[1948]] (~300 total students) | ||
- | * [[大乘佛教弘化院]] ca.[[1941]] - ?? (100 students in the first class) | + | * [[大乘佛教弘化院]] ca.[[1941]] - ?? (100 students in the first class)<ref>Yú (Pp. 1.780b-783b; entry for Hú Zǐhù [[胡子笏]])</ref> |
* [[中國佛學院]] 1956 - 1966; ?? - present | * [[中國佛學院]] 1956 - 1966; ?? - present | ||
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* {{ZFJS}} Pp. 2.896. | * {{ZFJS}} Pp. 2.896. | ||
* {{BRC}} | * {{BRC}} | ||
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[[Category:Institution]] | [[Category:Institution]] |
According to Welch, the term "Fóxué yuàn" was invented (or at least pioneered) by Tàixū 太虛 with the naming of the Wuchang Buddhist Seminary 武昌佛學院, which opened in 1922. Welch states, "Many of the innovations he (Tàixū) made there proved popular, and by 1945 almost all seminaries in China had become 'institutes for Buddhist studies'[1] in name, if not in substance. To varying degrees they adopted what Tàixū had adopted from lay schools and abroad."[2]
In addition to those schools explicitly identified as "Fóxué yuàn", there were a large number of Buddhist schools founded in China during the first half of the 20th century that catered to monastic and mixed lay/monastic student bodies. Welch lists 72 such seminaries in operation between 1912 and 1950.[3] He estimates, very tentatively, that somewhere on the order of 7,500 Buddhist seminarians graduated in China during those years. Although this estimation is based on incomplete data, it demonstrates that thousands of monks and nuns received their education at Buddhist Seminaries.
(Incomplete) List of Buddhist Seminaries associated with Tàixū:[4]
Other Important Seminaries[7]
Notes
References: