清末民初,在欧风美雨的打击下,中国的佛教界遭遇了中西文化的碰撞,以及庙产兴学而造成的驱逐僧人、捣毁佛像、没收寺产的严重危机,于是,一些有时代感的高僧大德,发扬大乘佛教救世精神,吸取西方文化中的积极因素,自觉或不自觉地开展佛教界的自我革新运动,在思想上,他们亦逐渐由维新而倾向革命,其中如宁波天童寺住持八指头陀及其戒弟子太虚法师,今将他们在辛亥革命前后的活动论述于下。 At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, under the blow of the European Wind and the United States, the Chinese Buddhists suffered from the collision of Chinese and Western cultures and the temple industry which caused the deportation of monks, the destruction of statues and the seizure of temple products. As a result, Monks and great monks, carry forward the Mahayana Buddhism salvation spirit, learn from the positive factors in Western culture, consciously or unconsciously carry out self-innovation movement in the Buddhist world, in their ideology, they also tend to be reformed from the revolution, of which Ningbo Tian Tong Temple Abbot Eight fingers Tuo and his disciples Ta virtual Master, now their activities before and after the Revolution of 1911 discussed in the next.