Haichao yin 海潮音

Hǎicháo yīn 海潮音 Sound of the Sea Tide

Print run: On the mainland 1920 - April 1949 (352 total issues); it continues publishing to this day in Taiwan Associated Location(s): Shànghǎi 上海, Hángzhōu 杭州, Běijīng 北京, Hànkǒu 漢口, Wǔchāng 武昌, Chóngqìng 重慶, Nánjīng 南京 Associated Person(s): Tàixū 太虛 was chief editor until he died in March 1947; others who edited it over the years included Shànyīn 善因, Shǐ Yìrú 史一如, Táng Dàyuán 唐大圓, Zhāng Huàshēng 張化聲, Huìjué 會覺, Léngqié Shānmín 楞伽山民, Qián Chéngshàn 錢誠善, Mǎnzhì 滿智, Fǎfǎng 法舫, Zhīfēng 芝峰, Dàxǐng 大醒, Wěifǎng 葦舫, Chénkōng 塵空, and Fúshàn 福善 Associated Organization(s): Shanghai Buddhist Books 上海佛學書局

Hǎicháo yīn 海潮音 (Sound of the Sea Tide) was the longest-running Chinese Buddhist periodical, and one of the most influential.

Originally titled Juéshè cóngshū 覺社叢書, it began in 1918, but with the fifth issue of that periodical in 1920, it was rechristened the Hǎicháo yīn. It had quite a small circulation, perhaps as few as 100 copies per issue, until Shanghai Buddhist Books 上海佛學書局 started publishing it in the early 1930s, after which it gained a much wider distribution.^[1]

Note that a better quality reproduction can be found in the edition published in 2003 by Shànghǎi gǔjì chūbǎnshè 上海古籍出版社. This is especially true for photographs.^[2]

Print Run

Reprinted in MFQ 147-204

• Vol. 2, 1921
• Vol. 3, 1922
• Vol. 4, 1923
• Vol. 5, 1924
• Vol. 6, 1925
• Vol. 7, 1926
• Vol. 8, 1927
• Vol. 9, 1928
• Vol. 10, 1929
• Vol. 11, 1930
• Vol. 12, 1931
• Vol. 13, 1932
• Vol. 14, 1933
• Vol. 15, 1934
• Vol. 16, 1935
• Vol. 17, 1936
• Vol. 18, 1937
• Vol. 19, 1938
• Vol. 20, 1939
• Vol. 21, 1940
• Vol. 22, 1941
• Vol. 23, 1942
• Vol. 24, 1943
• Vol. 25, 1944
• Vol. 26, 1945
• Vol. 27, 1946
• Vol. 28, 1947
• Vol. 29, 1948
• Vol. 30, 1949
  • Issue 4 was the last to be published on the Chinese mainland
• Publication resumed at Shàndǎo Temple 善導寺 in Táiběi 台北 in 1955 if not earlier

Notes

1. ↑ This may be one reason why, for example, in 1930 Earl Cressy's survey reported only one monastic in Hángzhōu 杭州 who read it. See Gregory Adam Scott, "The Dharma Through a Glass Darkly: On the Study of Modern Chinese Buddhism through Protestant Missionary Sources 彷彿對著鏡子觀看的佛法：藉由基督教傳教士的史料研究現代中國佛教," Shengyan yanjiu 聖嚴研究 (Forthcoming: 2011.)
2. ↑ The LC call number for this collection is BQ3.H353.

References

• MFQ 205:57-58