Hangzhou Buddhist College

Hangzhou Buddhist College

Hangzhou Buddhist College is located in Fajing Buddhist temple in zhongtianzhu. It is a provincial Buddhist College approved by the State Bureau of religious affairs, sponsored by Zhejiang Buddhist Association and undertaken by Hangzhou Buddhist Association. Its predecessor was the "Hangzhou Buddhist Sangha training class" founded in 1998, which was officially renamed "Hangzhou Buddhist College" in 2001. In the same year, it added a research class on the basis of the undergraduate class, and established the Buddhist Research Institute in 2004. Since the enrollment, Hangzhou Buddhist College has trained more than 100 high-quality Buddhist talents for temples in China. On the basis of the original school, we are now preparing to set up a Buddhist art college. Hangzhou Buddhist College will become a high-level Buddhist College with "academic foundation and art characteristics".

brief introduction

The predecessor of Hangzhou Buddhist College is Hangzhou Wulin Buddhist College founded by master juzan in 1947. Because of the continuous domestic war at that time, in 1948, Hangzhou Buddhist College was forced to suspend classes because of the funding cut off. In 1998, Hangzhou Buddhist Association re established the "Hangzhou Buddhist Sangha training course". In 2005, it was approved by the State Bureau of religion and officially renamed "Hangzhou Buddhist College". In 2010, the Buddhist Art Institute was established. The college aims to cultivate Buddhist temple management talents who are patriotic, love teaching, pay equal attention to learning and study, have a high sense of historical mission and social responsibility, and monks who are willing to engage in Buddhist theory, art research and creation.

After more than ten years of school running, the school running concept of "learning and cultivation as the foundation, academy as the core and art as the feature" has been clearly defined. After exploration and practice, a unique school running mode has been formed. We have trained a number of modern monks who are patriotic, love teaching, pay equal attention to study and study, have a high sense of historical mission and social responsibility, and can adapt to the trend of globalization and diversified development.

So far, more than 200 monks have graduated, including more than 30 graduate students and 5 international students. These graduates have become a new force in the Buddhist community. Many of them have held leading positions in the local Buddhist community, and many of them have also held important positions, becoming a strong force in their temples.

At present, Hangzhou Buddhist College has two secondary colleges and research institutes, namely, the Academy of education and the Academy of art. It implements the two-level teaching of undergraduate and graduate students, with four-year undergraduate education and three-year graduate education. With more than 200 students, monks and staff, it is a modern comprehensive Buddhist College worthy of its name. There are 15 mages in our college, most of whom have many years of teaching experience, accumulated rich teaching experience and certain research ability. There are 4 lay teachers and 9 staff in each department. There are more than 20 external teachers, mainly from Zhejiang University, China Academy of fine arts, Zhejiang Business University, Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences and other universities and scientific research institutions.

Through four years of study, the monks can have a framework understanding of the basis of Buddhism and the theories of various sects. There are many courses in the history of Chinese Buddhism, Indian Buddhism, precepts, meso view, knowledge only, Tiantai, Huayan, Zen, pure land, Yinming, politics and so on. At the same time, in order to enrich the students' knowledge and improve their quality, we also set up auxiliary courses such as ancient Chinese, history of Chinese and western philosophy, general psychology, sociology of religion, formal logic, history of science and technology, English and so on.

The Academy focuses on Buddhist painting, calligraphy, sculpture and other art creation, while cooperating with Buddhist theory, traditional culture and other courses. With the characteristics of subject teaching, a complete set of traditional and modern teaching system is constructed. There are three professional directions of Chinese figure painting, Chinese landscape painting and Chinese flower and bird painting. The teaching staff is strong, the subject setting is reasonable, and the teaching environment and facilities are complete. Its teaching, creation, research direction and research results are forward-looking and exemplary in China's Buddhist circles.

The Institute is responsible for graduate teaching and academic research in our institute. At present, it has a research office of knowledge only and a research office of Japanese Buddhism. In the academic field, our college has held an annual "Wu Yue Buddhism seminar" since 2002. So far, we have published five issues of "Wu Yue Buddhism" theses, and also held "international Yinming academic conference" and "seminar on knowledge only". In addition, our institute has also sponsored the academic journals of "Research on knowledge only" and "Yinming". At the same time, a certain number of books and papers are published by teachers and students every year.

In terms of foreign exchange, our hospital has made many friendly visits and exchanges to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries, and has maintained profound friendship. For a long time, in order to maintain world harmony, promote the peaceful reunification of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and for the territorial integrity and national unity of the motherland, Hangzhou Buddhist College has played its own advantages and made due contributions.

In terms of hardware, with the concern and high attention of Hangzhou municipal Party committee and government, the new campus was built with the investment of Hangzhou Buddhist Association. The new campus is surrounded by mountains and beautiful scenery. The first phase of the project was completed in 2010 and has been put into use. The new campus covers an area of more than 200 mu, with a construction area of more than 9300 square meters and a total investment of more than 50 million yuan. The overall design is in the shape of "卍". The "卍" is an auspicious pattern of Buddhism, which is called auspicious Sea Cloud, also known as auspicious and auspicious spin. It represents that Buddha, with infinite wisdom and compassion, will do his best to relieve countless sentient beings in ten directions in the future. With its special connotation and charm, the new campus design gives the teachers and students spiritual and moral edification.

Keeping pace with the times is the key to the survival and development of the college. Under the leadership of the higher authorities, Hangzhou Buddhist College will make full use of the good school running conditions, with the support and help of colleagues from all walks of life, face the trend of globalization and diversification of social development, seize the opportunity and meet the challenge, and build Hangzhou Buddhist College into a collection of Sangha education, art education, preaching and academic research The comprehensive Buddhist College, which integrates short-term training and foreign exchange, contributes to the healthy development of China's Buddhist cause.

Brief introduction of the faculty

The teaching and Research Institute of Hangzhou Buddhist College is a comprehensive college of Buddhist theory teaching and research. It is currently located in Fajing Buddhist temple in zhongtianzhu. Its predecessor is the "Hangzhou Buddhist Sangha training class" founded by Hangzhou Buddhist Association in 1998. In 2001, a graduate class was added to the undergraduate class. The length of schooling is four years for undergraduates and three years for postgraduates. It aims to cultivate Buddhist temple management talents who are patriotic and love teaching, pay equal attention to learning and cultivation, have professional Buddhist knowledge and modern cultural knowledge, have a high sense of historical mission and responsibility, and can contact the religious masses, as well as monks who are willing to engage in professional Buddhist theoretical research. Since the enrollment, the Faculty of Hangzhou Buddhist College has trained more than 200 high-quality Buddhist talents for temples in China.

The teaching faculty of Hangzhou Buddhist College is strong. It has a group of Buddhist masters with solid foundation and many years of teaching experience to teach Buddhist courses. At the same time, it has hired many teachers from Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences, Zhejiang Business University, Zhejiang Institute of education and other universities and scientific research institutions to teach social and cultural courses. Under the guidance of the basic principle of cultivating high-quality talents for Buddhism, we should strive to enrich the teaching concept comprehensively and combine tradition with modernity. In the setting of Buddhism curriculum, it advocates that China and India should develop Buddhism together, not in the same sect, but in combination with other kinds of rich social and cultural courses. In terms of specific curriculum, there are mainly knowledge oriented, mesoscopic, Tiantai, Huayan, Zen, Yinming, discipline, Chinese and Indian Buddhist history, politics, Chinese and western philosophy, history, psychology, religious sociology, Chinese, Japanese, English, etc. In order to broaden the vision of monks and enrich their knowledge, the college regularly invites well-known experts and scholars to offer various lectures.

The school of education and science of Hangzhou Buddhist College pays attention to the cultivation of religious emotion and quality of monks. It requires "jungle of college life". In the daily teaching, it does not relax the guidance and requirements of students' religious practice and life, and insists on going to the temple, going to the hall, praying, living in peace and meditation.

The Faculty of Hangzhou Buddhist College attaches great importance to academic research and exchange. Within the college, in order to improve the academic level and form a good learning and research atmosphere, the academic reward mechanism for teachers and monks is implemented, and teachers and monks are encouraged to write and publish papers and works. Large scale academic conferences are held every year to exchange the latest achievements of Buddhist Studies and understand the frontier issues of Buddhist studies.

"Keeping pace with the times" is the key to the survival and development of the college. Under the unified leadership of the college, the faculty will continue to improve the comprehensive level of teaching and management. In the trend of globalization and diversification, it will seize the opportunity, meet the challenge, and join hands with colleagues from all walks of life to move towards a new era of Buddhist development.

Brief introduction of art academy

Founded in September 2010, the school of Buddhist art of Hangzhou Buddhist College is the only comprehensive Buddhist art college with complete disciplines in China approved by the State Administration of religion. It is located in the new campus of Hangzhou Buddhist College with beautiful environment and advanced facilities. The Academy of Arts has a four-year undergraduate course and three-year postgraduate course. It is a teaching and research unit focusing on Buddhist art research and creation. The main purpose of the academy is to cultivate Buddhist art talents who are patriotic, love teaching, pay equal attention to learning and cultivation, love Buddhist art, and have a high sense of historical mission and responsibility. With Chinese traditional culture as the cornerstone and the development of Buddhist culture and national culture as its own responsibility, the Academy of Arts strives to build a Buddhist art college with complete system and exemplary significance in research, creation and exploration.

The teaching courses of the Academy of Buddhist arts are divided into three parts: Buddhism, basic culture courses and art courses. The courses of Buddhism include discipline and Buddhism

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