台灣地區佛教徒政治參與之研究－以人間佛教為研究焦點=Research of the Political Participation of Buddhist In Taiwan ─ Take the Humanistic Buddhism as the focal point of the research
The buddhist leaders of Taiwan participates in politics in different ways. Humanistic buddhism are currently growing towards social care and focusing more on welfares such as fringe benefits. For those ambassadors of Buddhist masters, they seem to have different levels of involvement in politics. The external side and the buddhist side itself, has hold an opposing opinion upon political involvements among buddists, some of the Buddhist head masters even criticize those buddhists who participate in politics. Accoding to this, it appears to have conflicts between the buddhists who participates in politics and of those who opposes from participating. Some buddhist have high involvement in politics, some have farely low involvement; yet another group of buddhists opposes political participations and even criticize those who does it. But there is another type of buddhist, who criticizes buddhist in political participation, yet involve themselves in political elections. Thus, there seem to have a complex relationship of the state of affairs of the political participation of buddhists in Taiwan. There must be important elemetents that are valuable to be researched upon. This research is based on analyzing datas of substances versus measures, comparing on both Buddhist masters and Buddhists to display the outcome of the research of the Political Participation of Buddhists In Taiwan. As a result of this research; if the buddhist has low interest in politics, they will also have lower involvement in politics; some buddhists are unconcerned about politics and some even reject political views. The hunanistic buddhism thoughts and ideas seemed not to have a concrete inflence in their political participation.
