Zhonghua fojiao zonghui 中華佛教總會

Chinese General Buddhist Association (Zhōnghuá Fójiào zǒnghuì 中華佛教總會)

History

• 1912 - ??; 1917 - 1919 (as the Chinese Buddhist Association 中華佛教會)
• Location(s): Běijīing 北京

An early pan-Chinese Buddhist association set up by Jìchán 寄禪 and others, including Dàojiē 道階, on April 1, 1912. It never received official recognition. It was transformed into the Chinese Buddhist Association 中華佛教會 in 1917, but was disbanded by police in Běijīing 北京 in 1919 for having been established illegally.

Zhìkāi 治開 was named president in 1913.

Section Editor: Erik Hammerstrom

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 Pp. 1.102-105.
• Welch, Holmes. The Buddhist Revival in China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Pp. 35-39.