香港佛教=Hong Kong Buddhism; 香港佛教的政– 教關係=political-religious relations within Hong Kong Buddhism; 香港佛教聯合會=Hong Kong Buddhist Association; 港– 臺佛教關係=Hong Kong-Taiwan Buddhist relations; 港– 中佛教關係=Hong Kong-China Buddhist relations
Rather than offer an abbreviated book review considering the general sense of Hou Kung Hong’s On Buddhism in Contemporary Hong Kong , this article is a detailed response to the book’s individual arguments and more comprehensive views. The article primarily consists of three parts.First, it provides a summary of the entire book and its unique characteristics, in which I briefly introduce the themes of each chapter and the features of the work. The years 1949, when political authority in China changed hands, and 1997, the year that sovereignty of Hong Kong was handed over to China from Britian, serve as the principal axes of the book’s discussion, which considers several representative Buddhist figures and events. The choice of materials and perspectives of this book are all informed by comparative methods that center both Taiwan and Hong Kong, and thereby supplement the insufficient perspective of simply focusing on the latter. Second, the article responds to the subject matter of each chapter, reflecting on both the content, people and events, and theoretical issues. This section of the article, regarding the context of
