Fojiao xiejin hui 佛教協進會

Association for the Advancement of Buddhism: Fójiào xiéjìn huì 佛教協進會

A short-lived early organization dedicated to modernizing monastic education.

• January - February 1912
• Location(s): Nánjīng's 南京 Pílú Temple 毘盧寺, and then briefly Jiāngtiān Temple 江天寺

This organization was the brainchild of Tàixū 太虛, who had help from his former classmate Rénshān 仁山. Their goal was to modernize monastic education and to this end they sought to use Jiāngtiān Temple 江天寺 on Jīnshān 金山 as the location for a new school. Their heavy-handed efforts in this regard led to the so-called Invasion of Jīnshān 大鬧金山. never very large, the organization ceased to exist after that.

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References:

• Shì Dōngchū 釋東初. Zhōngguó Fójiào jìndài 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. Taipei: Dongchu, 1974 P. 2.807, 956.
• Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Pp. 29, 31.