A Study on the Columbarium of Buddhist Temples in Taiwan during the Japanese Occupied Period
| Autor: | Yueh-Han , Tsai, 蔡岳翰 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 101 During the Japanese occupied period, Taiwan was assimilated by Japanese Buddhism. Under the influence of official health policy and promotion of Japanese funeral rites, traditional Taiwanese funeral rites gradually changed change from burial in the ground to cremation. Before Qing Dynasty, funeral architectures were mainly built into graves. After the Japanese occupied period, Buddhist temples also considered the requirement of believers about their bone ash when building pagodas for the Buddhists relics in cope with the rapid trend of cremation at that time. According to the literatures, there were storage places for bone ash urn before Qing Dynasty, but it didn’t definitely mentioned whether they were presented with Columbarium building styles. In 1917, Three Pagodas of Ling-Chuan Buddhist Temple were completed in Keelung which is the first Columbarium in Taiwan and can be used for believers to store bone ash. Later, many Buddhist temples consecutively built similar architectures. This study takes Taiwan Buddhist temples’ columbarium as the subject and makes field investigations on the building cases in Japanese occupied period to make clear about the source of Buddhist temples and columbarium with the cooperation of related literature. It also explores the relationship between architecture and spatial constitution. In terms of architecture, it discusses and classifies the characteristics and types of environment allocation, architecture forms, inner space, external decoration and other aspects by comparing and analyzing different cases. In terms of space, it observes the space division and usage modes of different cases and also compares the importance and roles of consecrated subjects to testify the relationship between columbarium’s kernel space and its ethic order. Finally, the study discusses the relationship between rituals and sites from the records of ritual activities held every year so as to provide role orientation of columbarium. |
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