方性质浓厚，又定期举办演讲会、讲习会、按时发行杂志，故

不失上令下达的效果，这从昭和10年以后，逐渐推行的皇民化

运动与佛教互动的情形，就可以窥知，这也是日后笔者研究的

课题。

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119 前揭江木生氏文。

120 《宗报》第八五三号，页26，昭和8年1月1日。

121 杨天送〈台湾佛教事情概说〉（《台湾佛化》一之三，

五月号，昭和10年）。

　

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The Hsi-lai--an Incident and

the Development of Taiwanese

Buddhism with Special Reference to

the Sotoo School

Ven. Huey-yen

Associate Researcher,

Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies

　

Summary

The missionary work of the Sotoo School in Taiwan

is part of the history of Taiwanese Buddhism

under Japanese colonial rule. Basing herself on

historical records like the Sotoo?School's School

Report which was published from 1897 on, the Report

on Religion in Taiwan dating from 1896, the

History of Overseas Missionary Activities of the

Sotoo School etc. the present author probes into

the religious activities of the Japanese Sotoo School

in Taiwan between 1895 and 1935.

The 40 years covered here saw subjection to

Japanese rule, disturbances caused by armed resistance

against the new overlords, suppression and

pacification on the side of the authorities, and

gradual reversion to a stable social order. The Sotoo

School's missionary activity continuously tried to

adapt its course to all these changes as is evidenced

by the Missionary Methods for Taiwan , a 1929

revision of the Missionary Regulations for the Taiwan

Island dating from 1986. Missionary work, of course,

began with Sasaki Chinryu's Invesigative Report on

Religion in Taiwan which was completed on August 3,

1896. As to its missionary enterprise, the Sotoo

School absorbed and utilized existing Buddhist

facilities before it developed its own resources,

bought land, built temples, and established an

organization which was under the supervision of its

Branch Temple in Taipei. Emphasizing the

principle of spreading the teaching through

education, schools for the national language were

established in many places in the early period,

followed by the Taiwanese Buddhist High School in

1918. These efforts led to the training of a great

number of capable people.

　

Key words: 1. missionaries in the army 2. Sasaki,

Chinryu 3. the first investigative

report on religion in Taiwan

4. Missionary Methods for the Isand of

Taiwan 5.temples affiliated with one

school

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