Social Engagement of Buddhist Community in Contemporary Taiwan— case study of Juvenile Welfare Institute “Puxian Cihai Juvenile House” / 當代台灣佛教的社會參與—以少年福利機構「普賢慈海家園」為例

碩士 / 法鼓文理學院 / 佛教學系 / 106 / “Humanistic Buddhism” has become the mainstream movement and practical direction for Chinese Buddhism''s developement since 20th Century. Base on the“Humanistic Buddhism”, many of this movement''s practitioners contribute to the Buddhist society greatly in the areas of charity, education and humanity. This research is “Puxian Cihai Juvenile House”, the first buddhist center for misbehavior youth. This research focus on relation between the topics of religion elements'' intervention on juveniles and education on misbehavior youth. This article is a cross domain research include Buddhism and Sociology, mainly with qualitative research with case study method . Data were collected with secondary data and semi-structured interview. This article discuss the practical side of Taiwan''s Buddhism''s involvment with the society, also being out the topic of jail preaching to explain why pick “Puxian Cihai Juvenile House” for research subject. Besides introduce the case studies, this research also analyze the data to explore whether the founder''s goal implement well within this institution''s operation and management. By analyze this juvenile house''s uniqueness we are to find out if Buddhism''s value bond well to the charity work, also to see if this pioneer work has positive impact and solid contributions to the Buddhism. This research finds that “Puxian Cihai Juvenile House” is different from other religion involved charity works, the founder is monk who actively involve in prison preaching works, his innovation on establish juvenile house within public religion service center actually deepening the Buddhism''s value to the organization and its participants. Also the organizations'' resource direct benefit the juvenile house. The author believes the necessity of establishment of buddhist juvenile house. It complets the practices of humanistic Buddhism''s hindering view. Base on the mission of “Save one child, the society decrease one possible threat and harm”, “Puxian Cihai Juvenile House” brings the positive impact to the society and families and holds it speacil role play in the Buddhism''s social involvement.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106DDBC5841002
Date January 2018
CreatorsKai-Shan Shi, 釋開善
Contributors梅靜軒
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format111

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