戰後臺灣佛教史研究與高等教育 ── 以國立中正大學對於中國佛教會遷臺檔案之整理與利用為例=Post-war Taiwanese Buddhist History Research and Higher Education:on the Documentation and Application of the Files of the Chinese Buddhist Association Relocation to Taiwan
臺灣=Taiwan; 佛教=Buddhism; 中國佛教會遷臺檔案=Files of Chinese Buddhist Association relocation to Taiwan; 釋淨良=Ven. Shih Jing-liang; 國立中正大學=National Chung Cheng University
Since the Chinese Buddhist Association（中國佛教會）relocated to Taiwan in 1949, it resumed Buddhist activities, changed its name to the Buddhist Association of the Republic of China, went through the martial law, endured hardship, and broke through difficulties during the periods of all citizens against the Russians and the Chinese Communists. After martial law was lifted, modern Taiwanese Buddhism ventured into a new era of multiculturalism and international development. As the association originated from China and out of the progressive frequent contact between the cross-strait Buddhist communities, the chairperson of the Buddhist Association of the Republic of China at 2006, Master Shih Jing-liang （釋淨良）, approached Professors Shang-wen Yen （顏尚文） and Wei-chen Yang（楊維真） as well as Dr. Cheng-tsung Kan （闞正宗） for a huge undertaking from 2008-2010 to digitize and study over 300,000 accounts of material regarding the past six decades of Buddhist activities to preserve and document modern Taiwanese Buddhist history. The final result was published as research papers as well as proceedings of annual association meeting minutes since 1949, which were highly valued by academia and Buddhists on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. This project is a perfect collaboration of Taiwanese Buddhist research and higher education. In addition to digitizing Taiwanese Buddhist data, many graduate students involved in this project composed theses or dissertations on this topic that brought new blood into Buddhist studies and shed new light on Taiwanese Buddhist history.
