1922 In the spring, under the advocacy and call of Li, Chen went to contact. With the indirect support of Hubei Governor Xiao Yaonan and the approval of lay people in Wuhan, Jingzhou and Yichang, more than 30 people were recruited as sponsors, and each person pledged funds to 400 yuan every year to establish Wuchang Buddhist College. Approved by the Hubei Provincial Department of Education, and reported to the Ministry of Education for the record. That year, the Hankou Buddhist Association held a ceremony. Tai Xu is the president, Liang Qichao (giving lectures at the Chinese University in summer vacation) is the president, and Li is a hospital nurse. The academic system is a junior college, and students from all provinces come to the hospital to take the exam one after another, and they are both monks and nuns. Recruited 60 students, and later increased to more than 80, and some of them were hospitalized as observers, reaching more than 100 at most, and officially started school in July 16. Graduation was originally scheduled for three years, and it was changed to two years later.
1924 More than 80 people graduated. After the first monk graduated, the academic system changed, and the junior college was changed to undergraduate, and a research institute was established. Graduates of the original professional courses enter the graduate school for further study, and those who fail the grade enter the undergraduate course.
1924 In the autumn, the undergraduate department and the graduate school opened at the same time.
1926 closed due to political turmoil. Most of the houses in the hospital site were occupied by the Military Medical Department of Wuhan Branch of the Central Military Academy, and were not recovered until 1932.
1928, Wuchang Buddhist College was changed to the preparatory office of the World Buddhist College, with Wang as the chairman. The following year, the research department was established, with a small scale and more than 30 boys and girls. It closed at 1930.
1932 After the military academy moved away, the World Buddhist Academy Library was prepared as the first step to establish the World Buddhist Academy. In summer, Master Taixu went to give lectures in Wuhan, Sichuan, and the library was formally established. Fang Benren is the chairman, Chen Jishe, He Hengfu and other business tycoons join the board of directors, and France is the acting curator. The fund's income is relatively stable, and the number of researchers has increased to more than 20. The research work is divided into Buddhist scripture review department and Buddhist scripture compilation department. In addition, it also owns the editorial departments of Tide and Zheng Xin.
1933 —— 1935 Two graduate students are enrolled. There are 22,400 kinds of books with 24,200 volumes, 1. 1 1 0,000 volumes, and 6 kinds of tripitaka.
1938, the Japanese invaders invaded Wuhan, and all the teaching staff moved westward with the government. Some books in the library are stored in Hankou Fulai Foreign Firm, and most of the classics left in the library were taken away by the Japanese army. The ruins of the museum were also occupied by the Japanese veterinary team, and most of the houses were lost. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it was taken over by the supply station of the 18 th Army Veterinary Team of the Kuomintang. Master Weifang was ordered by Master Taixu to revive Wuchang Buddhist College. After several negotiations, he returned to the library website.
1September, 946, the dharma teacher returned from Ceylon to take charge of the hospital affairs, and the Buddhist College resumed enrollment, enrolling more than 20 graduate students successively, with funds mainly funded by the Orthodox Church.
After the liberation of Wuhan, there were problems in the college economy. Most monks transferred to Central South University of Military and Political Affairs to study, and some stayed to run Daxiong Primary School.
/kloc-in 0/953, the courtyard site was requisitioned to establish a cannon school, and the cultural relics, Buddhist scriptures and statues were handed over to the cultural relics department and Guiyuan Temple, Bao Tong Temple and Sanfo Pavilion Temple respectively.
From 65438 to 0992, the Chinese Buddhist Association held a national seminar on Buddhist education in the Chinese Department in Shanghai to study the training of talents in the whole Buddhist community. Zhao Puchu put forward the profound insight that "the most important and urgent thing for Buddhism at present is to cultivate talents, the second is to cultivate talents, and the third is to cultivate talents". At this time, the last batch of students of the former Wuchang Buddhist College, such as Singapore Longgen Master, Zhang, Liu Yenong (the master of this music) and Lin, also strongly called for the restoration of Wuchang Buddhist College.
From 1992, after more than one year of preparation, 1993 invested 400,000 yuan to restore Wuchang Buddhist College.
On April 8th, 1994, the preparatory class of Wuchang Buddhist College held the opening ceremony at Baotong Temple in Hongshan, Wuchang, and enrolled nearly 60 students from more than ten provinces and cities such as Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Jiangsu. They are divided into two classes, the male class is in Baotong Temple and the Niban class is in Lianxi Temple. On August 3 1 day of the same year, with the approval of Hubei Provincial People's Government E Zheng Ban Han [1994] No.85, the school officially resumed running for three years.
The first students graduated from 1997, some returned to local monasteries to hold management positions, and some engaged in Buddhist education. Fayun is the supervisor of Baotong Temple, Chang Jie teaches at Wuchang Buddhist College, and Yi Zheng is the vice president of Wuchang Buddhist College.
1997, the second session enrolled 50 monks from Shandong, Hebei, Ningxia and other places. At the same time, we will expand the teaching staff, and employ Master Yinzong, Master Li Neng and Master Zhengci (executive director of Chinese Buddhist Association and executive vice president of Hubei Buddhist Association) to teach. Among the graduates, Master Fu Sheng is now a guest at Baotong Temple, and Master Jianping teaches at Wuchang Buddhist College.
During the period of stopping enrollment from 2000 to 2002, according to the requirements of the Chinese Buddhist Association and the State Bureau of Religious Affairs, the achievements were summarized and evaluated, which enriched the teaching staff. The Bhikkhu school building in Baotong Temple was rebuilt, desks were replaced, and teachers were equipped with computers and other modern teaching facilities. During this period, Baotong Temple gave strong support. The leadership and working team of the Buddhist College have also been adjusted, and young wizards such as Li and others have been appointed as leadership positions. At the same time, the relationship between the temple and the college was straightened out, and the temple managed the college and implemented management integration.
On February 20th, 2003, the Municipal Buddhist Association held the fifth enlarged meeting of the 8th President's Office to study the work of Wuchang Buddhist College. On March 9, the opening ceremony of the third monk of Wuchang Buddhist College was held, with 27 students enrolled. City Buddhist Association contributed 6,543,800 yuan+0.5 million yuan as school funding.
In 2003, with the advantage of Wuhan's education, the Municipal Religious Commission and Huazhong University of Science and Technology jointly held a postgraduate study class, and the Municipal Buddhist Association recommended nine monks to participate in the study, which successfully completed the study task. At present, there are about 60 Buddhist monks who have studied in religious colleges in Wuhan, 20 with college education or above, and nearly 10 with graduate education, which has improved the quality of young and middle-aged monks.