Haichao yin 海潮音

Hǎicháo yīn 海潮音 Sound of the Sea Tide

Print run: On the mainland 1920 - April 1949 (352 total issues); it continues publishing to this day in Taiwan Associated Location(s): Shànghǎi 上海, Hángzhōu 杭州, Běijīng 北京, Hànkǒu 漢口, Wǔchāng 武昌, Chóngqìng 重慶, Nánjīng 南京 Associated Person(s): Tàixū 太虛 was chief editor until he died in March 1947; others who edited it over the years included Shànyīn 善因, Shǐ Yìrú 史一如, Táng Dàyuán 唐大圓, Zhāng Huàshēng 張化聲, Huìjué 會覺, Léngqié Shānmín 楞伽山民, Qián Chéngshàn 錢誠善, Mǎnzhì 滿智, Fǎfǎng 法舫, Zhīfēng 芝峰, Dàxǐng 大醒, Wěifǎng 葦舫, Chénkōng 塵空, and Fúshàn 福善 Associated Organization(s): Shanghai Buddhist Books 上海佛學書局

Hǎicháo yīn 海潮音 (Sound of the Sea Tide) was the longest-running Chinese Buddhist periodical, and one of the most influential.

Its precursor was Juéshè cóngshū 覺社叢書 (Awakening Society Collectanea). Founded in 1918, but after its fifth issue in 1919 it was renamed the Hǎicháo yīn. Issues 1-6 under the new title featured on their covers the note "The monthly publication compiled by the Awakening Society" 覺社編叢之月刊, perhaps to emphasize its link with the society and its earlier publication. Later issues also feature similar notes.

It initially had quite a small circulation, perhaps as few as 100 copies per issue, until Shanghai Buddhist Books 上海佛學書局 started publishing it in the early 1930s, after which it gained a much wider distribution.^[1]

Note that a better quality reproduction can be found in the edition published in 2003 by Shànghǎi gǔjì chūbǎnshè 上海古籍出版社. This is especially true for photographs.^[2]

Contents 1 Print Run 2 Tables of Contents 2.1 Issue 1 2.2 Issue 2 2.3 Issue 3 2.4 Issue 4 2.5 Issue 5 2.6 Issue 6 2.7 Issue 7 2.8 Issue 8 2.9 Issue 9 2.10 Issue 10 2.11 Special Issue 2.12 Issue 11 3 Gallery 4 Notes 5 References

Print Run

Reprinted in MFQ 147-204

Year 1: March 1920 - February 1921
Number	Date Published	Reprint Location	Notes
1	March 10, 1920	MFQ 147:1-212	Published by 杭州南山淨梵院轉; Printed by Zhōnghuá Books 中華書局 (Shànghǎi)
2	April 10, 1920	MFQ 147:213-328
3	May 10, 1920	MFQ 147:329-464
4	June 10, 1920	MFQ 147:465-568, 148:1-42	Section reprinted in MFQ 148 is a supplemental: 庚申第二季增刊
5	July 10, 1920	MFQ 148:43-134	Yogacara Issue 唯識號
6	August 10, 1920	MFQ 148:135-258
7	September 10, 1920	MFQ 148:259-378	Chán Issue 禪宗號; includes a supplemental 庚申第三季增刊, MFQ 148:327-378
8	n.d. [October 10, 1920?]	MFQ 148:379-474	Starting with this issue the editor and publisher is credited as 杭州西湖彌勒院覺社
9	n.d. [November 10, 1920?]	MFQ 148:475-584	Study of Religion Issue 宗教研究
10	10th month 2947 BE (December, 1920)	MFQ 149:1-122	Includes a supplemental 庚申第四季增刊, MFQ 149:95-119
N/A	11th month 2947 BE (January, 1921)	MFQ 149:123-146	Special Edition on Amida Buddha's Birthday 阿彌陀佛誕日紀念刊
11	n.d. [February 10, 1921?]	MFQ 149:147-266

Year 2: March 1921 -
Number	Date Published	Reprint Location	Notes

• Vol. 3, 1922
• Vol. 4, 1923
• Vol. 5, 1924
• Vol. 6, 1925
• Vol. 7, 1926
• Vol. 8, 1927
• Vol. 9, 1928
• Vol. 10, 1929
• Vol. 11, 1930
• Vol. 12, 1931
• Vol. 13, 1932
• Vol. 14, 1933
• Vol. 15, 1934
• Vol. 16, 1935
• Vol. 17, 1936
• Vol. 18, 1937
• Vol. 19, 1938
• Vol. 20, 1939
• Vol. 21, 1940
• Vol. 22, 1941
• Vol. 23, 1942
• Vol. 24, 1943
• Vol. 25, 1944
• Vol. 26, 1945
• Vol. 27, 1946
• Vol. 28, 1947
• Vol. 29, 1948
• Vol. 30, 1949
  • Issue 4 was the last to be published on the Chinese mainland
• Publication resumed at Shàndǎo Temple 善導寺 in Táiběi 台北 in 1955 if not earlier

Tables of Contents

Tables of contents for first year of publication, March 1920 to approximately February 1921.

Issue 1

MFQ 147:2

• 建言 Proposals
  • 海潮音月刊出現世間的宣言
  • 覺社宣言
  • 太虛宣言
  • 新舊問題的根本解決, 太虛
  • 整理僧伽制度論, 太虛
  • 維摩詰經紀聞, 王黻彝, 黎錦熙
  • 大乘起信論講議, 圓瑛
• 平議 Critique
  • 新青年自殺論的批評, 悲華 (太虛?)
  • 與陳誦洛論墨子, 太虛
  • 論人心道心與佛學唯心之異同, 笠居眾生
  • 昧盦讀書錄, 太虛
• 商論 Discussion
  • 太虛答佛法問三則, 太虛
  • 某居士與人論佛法書
  • 成都張元鈺與友人書
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes
  • 一字金輪陀羅尼略, 殷人菴
  • 笠居眾生漫錄, 善因
  • 記長沙寶覺居士吳雁舟, 善因
  • 一微塵剖出記, 太虛
  • 介紹佛典
• 增刊 Addendum
  • 佛教年鑒

Issue 2

MFQ 147:214

• 建言 Proposals
• 平議 Critique
• 商論 Discussion
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes

Issue 3

MFQ 147:330

• 人工與佛學之新僧 Human Labour and the New Monk of Buddhist Studies

1. 批評 Criticism
2. 商論 Discussion
3. 建言 Proposals
4. 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes

Issue 4

MFQ 147:466

• 平議 Critique
• 商論 Discussion
• 建言 Proposals
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes
• 增刊 Addendum

Issue 5

MFQ 147:44

• 建言 Proposals
• 批評 Criticism
• 商論 Discussion
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes

Issue 6

MFQ 148:136

• 建言 Proposals
• 商論 Discussion
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes

Issue 7

MFQ 148:260

• 建言 Proposals
• 商論 Discussion
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes
• 增刊 Addendum

Issue 8

MFQ 148:380

• 建言 Proposals
• 討論 Discussion
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes

Issue 9

MFQ 148:476

• 建言 Proposals
• 討論 Discussion
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes
• 批評 Criticism

Issue 10

MFQ 149:2

• 建言 Proposals
• 批評 Criticism
• 討論 Discussion
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes
• 增刊 Addendum

Special Issue

MFQ 149:124

No sections; nine articles

Issue 11

MFQ 149:148

• 建言 Proposals
• 討論 Discussion
• 雜記 Miscellaneous Notes

Gallery

Images from Hǎicháoyīn

Portraits of editors and publishers of Hǎicháoyīn 海潮音, from Year 5, Issue 4, 1924.

Notes

1. ↑ This may be one reason why, for example, in 1930 Earl Cressy's survey reported only one monastic in Hángzhōu 杭州 who read it. See Gregory Adam Scott, "The Dharma Through a Glass Darkly: On the Study of Modern Chinese Buddhism through Protestant Missionary Sources 彷彿對著鏡子觀看的佛法：藉由基督教傳教士的史料研究現代中國佛教", Shengyan yanjiu 聖嚴研究 (Sheng Yen Studies), Vol. 2 (July, 2011): 47-73.
2. ↑ The LC call number for this collection is BQ3.H353.

References

• MFQ 205:57-58
• Don A. Pittman, Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism: Taixu's Reforms, 94-95, 100-101