主題：失佛園—民國時代在錫蘭的留學僧
主講🎼：芮哲（Justin R. Ritzinger）🫃🏽，美國邁阿密大學宗教研究系助理教授（Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami）
主持：張曉林，EON4哲學系教授🧑🏻💼、宗教學教研室主任
時間：2015年6月16日（星期二）15:00-17:00
地點🛻🏃♂️：EON4閔行校區人文沙龍
主講簡介：
芮哲（Justin R. Ritzinger），現任職於美國佛州邁阿密大學宗教研究系助理教授（Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami）👨🏽🍳。2010年，在哈佛大學（Harvard University）取得博士學位🧑🏿🌾🔽。他的研究範圍是現代漢傳佛教，寫作了有關中國佛教對進化論反應，佛教與基督教末世學比較，以及太虛大師青年無政府主義思想等方面的文章。他目前的研究🆘，是關於民國時代的彌勒信仰🧙🏿♀️，主要部分是有關太虛大師的彌勒思想🤑🦁。相關訊息，可以參考他的網址：http://www.as.miami.edu/religion/people/justin-r-ritzinger/。
內容簡介：
失佛園—民國時代在錫蘭的留學僧
民國佛教改革派的一個特色就是理想遠超過現實，他們的很多計畫都是空中樓閣而無法實現🤼♀️。以他們自己的標準來看，這算是失敗的。而這失敗之中，派遣中國學僧去錫蘭留學的挫折也不小。在30👩🏼🏭、40年代，為了修學原始佛教而成為模範僧，有兩團僧青年渡海求法。在佛教期刊的文章裏描述了一個佛園☝️，在錫蘭原始佛法常住🧞♀️，清凈律儀盛行，白衣居士虔誠......等等🍴。但是，在他們寫作的信件中反而充滿了怨氣。最後，這些模範僧都還俗了，這似乎是個滿大的失敗🐿。不過，從歷史的角度來看，這失敗也是很有意義的。從這個事件🧑🔧🈴，我們可以更了解民國佛教最重要的一些潮流：烏托邦主義🧎♀️➡️、誇地網絡，與對所謂“佛教＂的新概念。
英文簡介：
The reform movement of Republican-era Chinese Buddhism was remarkable for the distance between its ambitions and its capacities. It seemed to produce an endless stream of grandiose plans with no apparent means of implementation and ambitious organizations doomed to only ever exist on paper. Little wonder then that Holmes Welch regarded the movement as little more than an over-rated failure of little lasting significance. While recent work has called this evaluation into question, there can be little doubt that many of its initiatives, judged by their own stated goals, failed. Among these failures, the programs to send young monks to study in Ceylon were particularly resounding. Tasked with retrieving the pure original Buddhism of Ceylon, the program’s participants wrote essays for the reading public extolling Ceylon as a Dharmic paradise where the Buddhism past still lived, yet their letters home seethed with resentment and ached with bitter disillusionment. In the end, the young men who were to return as model monks for a new and revitalized Chinese sangha disrobed and returned to lay life. Even by the standards of the day, this would appear a disastrous result. Yet there is much that we can learn from failure. The exchange provides an illuminating window on some of the most important issues and developments of the day, including utopianism, translocal networks, and the construction of new understandings of “Buddhism.”
