中国农村佛教寺庙建设与农村社会发展关系研究

近些年农村寺庙在中国佛学界拥有的地位越来越显得重要。僧尼参与社区事务,积极参与各种慈善捐赠等扶贫工作。使寺庙在农村社会中具有了更高的地位。同时,旅游服务业与宗教事业相结合而开发的一种新的产业热潮也不断升级对农村寺庙建设起到了促进作用。在农村佛教寺庙建设方面,呈现出良好趋势是：寺庙管理进一步规范化,涌现一批批楷模;“农禅并重”的生产方式在农村寺庙得到保留和延续,以及寺庙通过吸纳民间信仰等手段扩大其影响力,但也同时也存在着许多问题。农村寺庙具有弘法教育,承载传统文化,抚慰人心、化解矛盾,给予孤老病弱以关怀,以及在农村的各项移风易俗等社会功能,如何教育神职人员爱国守法;如何加强寺庙民主管理工作,实现传统制度与现代管理的有效衔接;如何增强寺庙的自养能力,减轻众教徒经济负担,是农村社会管理工作要解决的问题,也是巩固“平安寺院”建设成果的重要组成部分。因此加强农村寺庙建设与管理很有必要。

On the Relationship between Rural Buddhist Temple Construction and Rural Social Development in China

In recent years, rural temple has an important position in Chinese Buddhist circles. Now, in terms of participation in community affairs, monks and nuns also have a higher status in rural areas, and actively participate in various donations. Meanwhile, tourism services and religion combine career and the development of a new construction boom also escalating significantly. Buddhist temple construction in rural ar- eas, showing a good trend is to further standardize the temple, the emergence of a batch model, ＂both agricultural Zen＂ mode of production in rural areas and the continuation of the temple is preserved, as well as temples and other means by which to attract more folk beliefs have an impact power, but there are also many problems. Rural temples have the functions of preaching education, bearing traditional culture, sooth- ing, resolving conflicts and so on, how to educate monks and nuns abide by the law, how to strengthen temple management work, how to en- hancing temples＇ autotrophie ability and reduce the economic burden of believers are three problems to be resolved in rural social manage- ment, also an important components of consolidating safety temple construction achievements. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the con- struction of rural temples.