"Kakusha Series" - Kakusha Sosho

…At the age of 16, he became a monk and received the ordination from the monk Jizhen of the Tenryu Temple in Ningbo. He was deeply impressed by the works of the reformists of the late Qing Dynasty and aspired to save the country through Buddhism. He later had contact with the revolutionaries and in 1912 organized the China Buddhist Association in Nanjing. In 1914, he retreated to the Xilin Zen Temple in Putuo Mountain and studied the eight schools of Buddhism - Tendai, Huayan, Hosso, Zen, Vinaya, Pure Land, Esoteric, and Sanron - and came to the idea of ​​equality among the eight schools. In 1917, he organized the Jakusha Society with lay Buddhists such as Zhang Binglin and published the monthly Jakusha Series (later renamed Hai Chaoyin). In 1922, he was welcomed into the Wuchang Buddhist Institute, which was established in opposition to Ouyang Jingwu's China National Institute, and became the center of the new Buddhist movement. …

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…16歳で出家し，寧波（ニンポー）の天竜寺の寄禅和尚を師として受戒，清末改革派の著作に深く感銘して仏教救国を志し，のち革命派とも往来，1912年南京に中国仏教協進会を組織した。14年普陀山の錫林禅院にこもって，天台･華厳･法相･禅･律･浄土･密･三論の八宗を兼学して八宗平等の考えに達し，17年章炳麟ら在家仏徒と覚社を組織し，月刊《覚社叢書》(のち《海潮音》と改題)を刊行。22年欧陽竟无（おうようきようむ）の支那内学院に対抗して設立された武昌仏学院に迎えられ，新仏教運動の中心となる。…

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