Foxue banyuekan 佛學半月刊

Fóxué bànyuèkān 佛學半月刊 Buddhism Semimonthly

Print run: 1930, 1.30 – 1944, 12.16 (313 issues) Associated Location(s): Shànghǎi 上海 Associated Person(s): Fàn Gǔnóng 范古農, Yú Liǎowēng 余了翁, editors; other major contributors included Tàixū 太虛, Mǎnzhì 滿智, Huìzhōu 慧舟, Lǐ Yuánjìng 李圓淨, Hé Mòléi 何默雷, Lǐ Jīngwéi 李經緯 Associated Organization(s): Shanghai Buddhist Books 上海佛學書局

Fóxué bànyuèkān 佛學半月刊 (Buddhism Semimonthly) was the biggest Buddhist newspaper in the Republic in terms of publication size.

It went to runs of more than 10,000, some of which were sold, others of which were donated. The size of each individual issue varied from 7 to 20 pages, with an average of 10 pages per issue. Most of the famous writers of the time published in this newspaper. It dealt with a variety of current events and was known as being fairly confrontational.

• MFQ has a fairly complete run from issues 1-313, including a special issue on Hóngyī 弘一, reprinted in Vols. 47-55
• MFQB has many of the issues missing from the MFQ collection, as well as many special issues on particular topics

Issues 215-303, October 1940 to June 1944, not reprinted in MFQ

References

• MFQ 205.17