Dongya fojiao dahui 東亞佛教大會

East Asian Buddhist Conference: Dōngyā fójiào dàhuì 東亞佛教大會

An international Buddhist conference held in Tokyo on November 1-2, 1925.

It was decided at the second World Buddhist Federation meeting 世界佛教聯合會 held at Lúshān 廬山 in July of 1924 that the following year the Japanese would host a similar conference in Tokyo. The Chinese delegation, headed by Tàixū 太虛 and Dàojiē 道階 left China on October 17 and returned on November 30.^[1] The delegation was greeted by many reperesentatives of Japanese Buddhism, and toured Kyoto before arriving in Tokyo for the conference itself.

At the conference, Tàixū and many others gave speeches.

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Chinese Delegation: 30 persons, including...

• 道階 Co-vice chair
• 太虛 Co-vice chair
• 持松
• 弘傘
• 曼殊
• 王一亭
• 胡瑞霖
• 韓清凈
• 徐森玉
• 楊鶴慶
• 張宗載
• 寧遠蘊
• 劉仁航
• 滿智 Recorder

Japaneses Delegation:

• Mizuno Baigyō 水野梅曉
• 大西良佩
• 佐伯定胤
• Kimura Kaiten 木村泰賢

Taiwanese Delegation:

Korean Delegation:

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Notes:

1. ↑ Shì Dōngchū, 1:394.

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References:

Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó fójiào jìndàii 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. (Taibei: Dongchu, 1974), 1:294-299.

Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968), 166-168.