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angles and much interdisciplinary Buddhist research. Buddhism wants to better integrate itself deeper
By holding academic conferences and compiling into society and disseminate its teachings to a broader

academic periodicals it has taken on various forms community. To achieve this requires lay Buddhists in
to promote a more in-depth and developed study of addition to the monastic order to preserve and pass on
Buddhism. It has also engaged in exchanges with teachings. Beside talented individuals who research

Asian and European countries to advance the inter- scriptures and engage in cultivation, there is also a
national level of Buddhist studies. For example, in need for persons who can spread Buddhist culture,
2016 Xi’an held a “Han Chinese Buddhism Ancestral provide public service projects, and perform inter-

Culture International Academic Research Confer- national promotion. In the decades to come, as the
ence.” Scholars and specialists from 17 countries and concept of Chinese Buddhist education evolves and
regions participated in the event. its model expands, the need for individuals of a wider

中國佛教的義學研究建立於經典文獻基礎之 array of talents will grow.

上，但更注重對佛教義理內涵的挖掘闡釋，以及 1、傳統叢林的轉型
對現實問題的回應。所以，佛學研究不應該是一 (1) The Changing Face of the Traditional Mon-
種純學術研究，乃至僅僅局限於語言學和文獻學 astery

的狹小範疇。 在僧眾教育方面，傳統的叢林熏修模式
Chinese Buddhist yixue research is founded 逐漸發展出對內學修與對外弘法相結合的新
upon scriptures, but it is more focused upon unearth- 型 僧 團。 現 代 佛 教僧 團 不 僅 堅持 戒 定 慧 三

ing explanations of Buddhist doctrine and content 學 ， 而且 利 用 新 媒體 技 術 弘 揚佛 法 及 傳 統
as well as providing answers to modern questions. 文化，積極參與公益慈善事業，進行國際交
Therefore, Buddhist Studies are not a simple academ- 流，使寺廟成為一個為社會釋放正能量的開

ic discipline, nor is it limited to the narrow confines 放的精神文化中心。新型僧團教育融合了傳
of linguistic or philological studies. 統叢林與現代佛學院教育的優勢，注重教界

（二）人才建設 與學界的學術文化交流，並將古代的農禪生
II. Development of Talented Individuals 活拓展為各種弘法利生事業，在回饋社會的
佛教要想更好地融入社會、廣泛傳播， 實踐中體現真實鮮活的佛法。

不僅需要住持佛法的僧眾，同時也需要護教 In terms of educating monastics, the traditional
弘法的居士信眾；不僅要有研學經論、精進 monastery’s model for cultivation and permeation

修持的修行人才，還要有傳播文化、公益慈 must gradually develop a new form that integrates
善、國際弘法等多種人才。十幾年來，中國 both internal cultivation practices with external prop-
佛教教育的觀念在進步，模式在拓展，人才 agation methods. The modern day monastic com-

類型也更為多元。 munity will not only continue the study of precepts,

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