Diploma de monge: um estudo sobre a Universidade Livre Budista da Fo Guang Shan

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Denise Lopes de
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1990
• topic: Universidade Livre Budista; Fo Guang Shan; Zu Lai Budismo Humanista; Budismo; Universidade Livre Budista Zu Lai; Fo Guang Shan (Ordem budista); Sacerdotes budistas; Zu Lai Humanistic Buddhism; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

This work aims to describe and analyse the course for monks and Dharma s teachers offered by the Universidade Livre Budista of the Zu Lai temple located in Cotia Data was obtained through interviews and observations which means the research assumes an empirical characteristic Bibliographic material was also a source of information The Zu Lai temple is a Brazilian branch of the Fo Guang Shan organization whose headquarters is in Taiwan Its objectives are to spread Dharma through culture develop talents through education benefit society through charity and purify the mind through spiritual development The founder of the organization Hsing Yün tries to spread the so called Humanistic Buddhism which has an anthropocentric characteristic and intends to emphasize the pragmatism of Buddhism Along the course students of the Universidade Livre Budista are expected to reach spiritual development through study of religion Furthermore they are expected to learn how to use Buddha´s teachings in order to benefit the environment they belong to The pragmatic characteristic emphasized in the subjects taught during the course are similar to what Ken Jones calls Socially Engaged Buddhism which is known as the need for buddhists to gather and work to promote ethical and pragmatic Buddhism focused on social benefit This work contributes to the discussion about the settlement of Fo Guang Shan in Brazil through the use of educational characteristics inherent to Buddhism Besides that it contributes to the discussion about the social role the course represents not only to the local community but also to the Chinese people and their descendants by considering the substance of the offer the inter-relation between the religious organization and society and the organizational competence of the temple The discussion is based on the theory of the sociologist Rodney Stark and mainly concludes that the strictness of the monastic rules students are supposed to obey as well as the limited validity of the diploma issued by the organization contribute to the number of students who give up the course which is significant