A Communication Content Studies of Religious Publication: Cases of Society for Buddhist Renaissance Monthly and Modern Zen Magazine

• Main Authors: Li-tian Lim, 林麗珍
• Other Authors: Meei-hwa Chern
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70295031906799739122

碩士 === 南華大學 === 出版與文化事業管理研究所 === 100 === 　　The lifting of Martial Law is an important stage for the study of Taiwan’s Buddhism development. Under the influence by Yin Shun’s thoughts, The Society for Buddhist Renaissance and Modern Zen Society were founded during the time when the Martial Law was first lifted. They published Society for Buddhist Renaissance Monthly (1987.02-1994.01) and Modern Zen Magazine (1989.02-1994.08) and a total of 1326 sample articles from these two publications constitute the research subject of this dissertation. 　 　　This study aims to understand the composition of Society for Buhhist Renaissance Monthly and Modern Zen Magazine’s communication content, as well as reflect the special significance of Society for Buddhist Renaissance and Modern Zen Society in the development of Taiwan’s Buddhism. Reformed content analysis and citation analysis are applied in the course of research to achieve a comprehensive answer to the research question. 　 　　The research shows that Society for Buddhist Renaissance Monthly and Modern Zen Magazine have different focus in content. Society for Buddhist Renaissance Monthly advocated primitive Buddhism; emphasize the importance of practice and fulfilling The Four Arousings of Mindfulness in daily life. Modern Zen Magazine focused more on organization’s news, progress and such. The main figures in Society for Buddhist Renaissance are Thomas Chang, Zhang Ci-Tian and Wei Wei Chang. The magazine adopted the descriptive literary style. The main figures in Modern Zen Magazine are Li Yuan-Song, Wen Jin-Ke and Lian Yong-Chuan. The magazine adopted the narrative literary style. In the development of Taiwan’s Buddhism, both Society for Buddhist Renaissance and Modern Zen Society reflected the further implementation and reflection of Master Yin Shun’s ideology on Humanistic Buddhism. From the Buddhism perspective, they try to integrate with reality, making an effort towards modernization. However, their existences were too short for their effort to make a greater impact.