Bailin jiaoli yuan 柏林教理院

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Bólín Institute: Bólín jiàolǐ yuàn 柏林教理院

A Buddhist seminary 佛學院 first established in the spring of 1930 at Bólín Temple 柏林寺 in Běijīng by Táiyuán 台源, the abbot of that temple. In the summer of that same year, Tàixū 太虛 paid a visit, and lent his support to the endeavor. The head of the Institute was one of Tàixū's old friends, Chángxǐng 常惺. The Institute was formally established in September of 1930, when Tàixū asked his disciple Fǎfǎng 法舫 to come to Beijing from Wuchang to help make the Bólín Institute a branch of World Buddhist Studies Center 世界佛學苑, which was based at the Wuchang Buddhist Seminary 武昌佛學院. The two locations were organized so that students at the Bólín Institute focused on Japanese language, while the students in Wuchang focused on English.

The Buddhist Critic 佛教評論 was likely published in association with this school.

After the incursion of Japanese forces into northern China following the Mukden Incident of September 18, 1931 [1], funds for the Center dried up. As a result, the Bólín Institue closed and Fǎfǎng returned to the World Buddhist Center in Wuchang.

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百度百科-法舫法師

百度百科-台源法師