建國百年之佛教高等教育回顧與展望：從傳統分類到科際整合=A Retrospective Account of Buddhist Higher Education after 100 years as the Republic of China, and its Prospects for the Future
漢藏教理院=Sino-Tibetan Institute of the World Buddhist Studies Center; 支那內學院=the Chinese Inner Studies Institute; 佛教學院=Buddhist College; 佛學資訊=Buddhist Informatics; 佛教禪修傳統與現代社會=Buddhist Meditation Tradition and Modern Society=
This article begins by introducing and inquiring into the background of two well-developed Buddhist institutes of higher education founded before the government of the Republic of China withdrew to Taiwan in 1949: the Sino-Tibetan Institute of the World Buddhist Studies Center (Shìjiè Fóxüé yuàn Hàn Zàng jiàolǐ yuàn 世界佛學苑漢藏教理院), and the Chinese Inner Studies Institute (Zhīnà Nèixüéyuàn 支那內學院). Since 1985, encouraged by the government’s new policy of private education, several Buddhist organizations have established colleges and graduate schools in the fields of engineering, medicine, humanities and social sciences, management, and religious studies. In March 2004, the Legislative Yuan made an amendment of law to allow the establishment of religious colleges specializing in a single religion. Three Buddhist colleges have emerged in consequence. Modern Buddhist education encompasses the three traditional areas of Indian Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, and Tibetan Buddhism. In addition, Buddhism and Information Science have been integrated to develop a curriculum in Buddhist Informatics in acknowledgement of the advent of the Information Era, with the internet reaching a critical mass in the early 1990s. Finally, research into the relationship between Buddhist education and modern society has adopted the approaches of interdisciplinary studies. In the case of the Buddhist Meditation Tradition, for example, we have seen connections being made between Buddhist meditation and such academic disciplines as education, medicine, cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology, and so on.
