Modern Buddhist Temples And Gardens Landscaping

What accompany with the consistent, stable and rapid developing economy is that humanself living standards' improving as the time goes. The Buddhism cultural theme parks aregradually becoming more and more popular, which stems from the tight correspondence betweenthe spirit of Buddhism and the appeal from people whom are living in current time. However, thetraditional styled temples and gardens can no longer meet the needs of modern society'saesthetics. Under the guidance of "Humanistic Buddhism" which created by the first foundingVenerable Master Hsing Yun, the Buddhist temples which fit in the modernized aestheticawareness, simultaneously applying modernized landscape designing languages, arecontinuously open. They inherited not only the establishing methods of the traditional templesand gardens, but also constantly innovate comply with the "Human Oriented" spirit of the time.The thesis is taking steps on its research on the landscape of modern Buddhist temples andgardens where context in the present time, it breaks down to the various factors includinglocation selection, space layout, atmosphere creation,water and mountains placement, plantsdisplaying as well as culture sketches, analyze and contrasting the similarities and disparities ofthe landscape construction between traditional and modern Buddhist temples and gardens. Thispaper particularly choose The Grand Aware Temple in Yixin as an representative example toobserve and research among the typical Buddihst temples.Simultaneously, Bring up criticalcomments, advices and methodology measurements towards the flaws and problems of theprocess of modern temple and garden landscaping, in order to inherit and expand ChineseBuddhism culture and the methodology of"Humanistic Buddhism".