| Summary: | 碩士 === 玄奘大學 === 宗教與文化學系碩士在職專班 === 107 === From ancient times to today, death is an unavoidable subject for human beings, and religious beliefs continue to exert a subtle influence. Taiwan’s population has been dominated by folk beliefs over the years. In recent years, the social structure has changed. People’s lives and religious beliefs are still closely linked. The concept and practice of religious care for life is accompanied by changes in social patterns, and hospice care is accompanied by the road to rebirth. The instrument of salvation lies in the comfort of the spirit and the traditional funeral custom evolves with the tide.
The study adopts qualitative research method. In addition to analyzing related classics, literatures and various materials, Researcher also participates in the ceremony of praying and salvation for the dying, consults relevant experts and scholars to conduct in-depth interviews as the analysis and argumentation of field investigation data. Researcher wants to explore Buddhism and Taoism in Taiwanese society with many believers and how do they carry out life and death care? What is the change in the type of funeral behavior in society today?
The findings are listed below:
1. The Buddhist and Taoist believers in Taiwanese society have adopted Buddhist praying at the end of life. The Taoist Taiyi rescues Tianzun is the promotion stage for the dying.
2. Buddhist funerals cater to traditional funeral rites, and Taiwan society funeral religious pattern continue to transfer to Buddhist funeral.
3. The funeral custom has only a few pure Buddhist rituals and the folk or funeral practice thinks it belongs to Taoism or folk beliefs, combined with most Buddhist rituals, is called Buddhist funerals.
4. The salvation ceremony of religious beliefs has become increasingly
simple and simple. At present, most of the merits of midnight are still irreplaceable.
Exploring the life care of religious believers, and discovering the function of setting up the dead and soothing the bereaved in the funeral activities is the value of caring for life and the inheritance of life education. Pre-establishing wills and repairing the ultimate face are the elements of modern life and death. However, the rise of the religious pattern in the funeral and consumer behavior is worthy of follow-up observation and discussion.
Keywords: hospice care, pray for the dying, salvation, funeral custom
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