清代臺灣寺廟僧人牌位的史料意義 - 以宜蘭昭應宮為中心=The Historical Significance of Memorial Tablets of Monks in Qing Dynasty Temples in Taiwan -- Centered on Zhaoying Temple (昭應宮) in Yilan
Since the Qing Dynasty, the number of Taoist temples in Taiwan was about three times more than that of Buddhist monasteries, and because of the mixture of Buddhism and Taoism in the temples of folk beliefs, the abbot was often a monk. From the 281 monks recorded in Zheng Xifu’s (鄭喜夫) “Record of Monks in Taiwan during the Qing Dynasty (preliminary draft)”, most of them were living in temples rather than Buddhist monasteries. Therefore, in order to study Taiwan Buddhism in the Qing Dynasty, it is necessary to start with the monks in the Taoist temples, and the monk tablets kept in the Taoist temples have become a key to unlock the development of Taiwanese Buddhism in the Qing Dynasty. In this paper, we take the two monastic tablets found in Zhaoying Temple (昭應宮), Yilan City, from the Qing Dynasty, namely, „Huang Bei Liu Fang‟ (黃檗流芳) and „Nan Yuan Yan Pai‟ (南院衍派), as examples, and analyze their sect succession, historical significance and values.
