Investigation and Study on the Organization and Management of Theravade Buddha-Sasarapyu Ovadacariya Committee under the Control of Religous. Affairs in Myanmar

宗教控制下的上座部佛陀-Sasarapyu Ovadacariya委员会组织与管理的调查研究。

• 批准号: 08610030
• 负责人: HIRAKI Koji
• 金额: $ 0.45万
• 依托单位: THE EASTERN INSTITUTE,Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1996 至 1997
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-08610030/
• 关键词: Theravada Buddhasasanapyu Ovadacariya Committee; Ministry of Religious Affairs (Department for the Promotion and Propagation of the Sasana); Ethnic Minorites(The Chins); ミャンマー宗教省; 少数民族; 山地伝道協会

Some of the findings of this research are put together and published in the research parer as an independent volume. To understand properly the present system of Theravada Buddhasasanapyu Ovadacariya Committee, this paper provides elucidation on its organization, job specifications, management, and the like by fieldwork and the primary research in the Burmese Buddhist literature. It also gives the historical background for the reason why such a committee was established in Myanmar, going back to the age of British colonialism.And from the viewpoint of how the missionary idea of the committee is embodied on a local level, in this paper I described the actual state of Burmese Buddhist missionaries who are appointed and sent to ethnic minorities by the committee.And this paper provides not only Buddhist monks who have been engaged in missionary work among the Chins, for example, in Mindat, kanpetlet at the foot of Mt.Victoria but also the present religious state of Theravada Buddhism in the State of Chin.The research brought further revelation that laylmen missionaries and"Buddhist developers"exist ; the former ones who assist Buddhist missionaries in converting local minorities in the form of a layman missionary who receive benefits from Department for the Promotion and Propagation of the Sasana, Ministry of Religions Affairs, the latter ones highly similar to Thai Buddhists who are engaged in promoting social development.

这项研究的一些发现被放在一起，作为一本独立的卷发表在《研究周刊》上。为了正确理解小乘佛教委员会的现行制度，本文通过田野调查和对缅甸佛教文献的初步研究，对其组织、工作规范、管理等方面进行了阐述。本文从该委员会的传教思想如何在地方层面体现的角度，描述了该委员会委派到少数民族的缅甸佛教传教士的实际情况。本文不仅提供了在中国从事传教工作的佛教僧侣，例如在棉兰达，维吾尔山脚下的甘比特，也是小乘佛教在中国的现状。研究进一步揭示了世俗传教士和“佛教发明者”的存在；前者以世俗传教士的形式帮助佛教传教士使当地少数民族皈依宗教，后者从宗教事务部促进和传播司获得福利，后者与泰国佛教徒非常相似，从事促进社会发展的工作。