Flows of Innovation in Fo Guang Shan Oceania: Transregional dynamics behind the Buddha’s Birthday Festival
Fo Guang Shan (FGS), a transnational Buddhist movement in the Chinese Mahāyāna tradition, has grown rapidly in the last fifty years to become a global network of close to 180 branch temples. For almost thirty years, FGS Oceania has invested heavily in the Buddha’s Birthday Festival annually in the f...
| Published in: | Journal of global buddhism |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Journal of global buddhism
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 185-202 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Australia
/ New Zealand
/ Fo Guang Shan
/ Innovation
/ Religious festival
/ Spread of
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| RelBib Classification: | AF Geography of religion AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBS Australia; Oceania RB Church office; congregation RC Liturgy RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
New Zealand
B Taiwan B Australia B Mahayana Buddhism B Fo Guang Shan |
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| Summary: | Fo Guang Shan (FGS), a transnational Buddhist movement in the Chinese Mahāyāna tradition, has grown rapidly in the last fifty years to become a global network of close to 180 branch temples. For almost thirty years, FGS Oceania has invested heavily in the Buddha’s Birthday Festival annually in the form of weekend-long festivals in public spaces across Australia and New Zealand, involving months of planning and thousands of volunteers to welcome tens of thousands of visitors. FGS Oceania served as an incubator, exporter, and importer of innovations to make the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha accessible to the public through these festivals. Here, we map the flows of such innovations among the headquarters in Taiwan, the Oceanic branches, and other regional headquarters to examine the dynamics of organisational learning that drive these innovations. Using a system of systems model, we argue that such flows were enabled by FGS’ culture of innovation and the independent yet collaborative nature of its transregional network. |
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| ISSN: | 1527-6457 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of global buddhism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26034/lu.jgb.2022.1998 |