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[1] Especially Jiang Cantang (s. bibliography). The most accessible accounts in Western languages are Jones (1999) and Günzel (1998).

[2] For outlines of the three Zhaijiao sects on Taiwan see Jones (1999), 14-30, and Lan (1994) vol.9, 5753-5756.

[3] The ‘five pungent herbs” are onion, garlic, leek, scallion and chives.

[4] Lan (1994) vol.9, 5755.

[5] There were a number of these associations (Jones (1999), 66-80). The most important being the South Seas Buddhist Association (Nanying fojiao hui) that represented the most comprehensive Japanese approach to organize Buddhism in Taiwan. It was hardly more than an agency of the colonial government, its newsletter, however, became the main organ for a comparatively open discourse on Buddhism in Taiwan.