Anhui seng xuexiao 安徽僧學校

Ānhuī Monastic School: Ānhuī sēng xuéxiào 安徽僧學校

A Buddhist seminary 佛學院 based at Yíngjiāng Temple 迎江寺 in Ānqìng 安慶. It ran from 1922 to 1924, making it contemporary with the early Wuchang 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 Nán pu3tuó Temple 南普陀寺 in Xiàmén 廈門 to help start Jǐngxián Buddhist Studies Society 景賢學佛社 (which became the Minnan 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, and says it had an enrollment of about 20 monks.^[1]

Teachers Included:

• Dùè 度厄
• Huìtíng 蕙庭
• Juésān 覺三

Studnets Included:

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

Notes:

1. ↑ Welch, 285.

References:

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), 1:954b-957b. (From the entry for Chángxǐng 常惺)