Abstract
Since Taiwan government lifted the ban of communication with Mainland China in 1987, the activity of cross-strait civil exchange has became more frequent day by day and the cross-strait religious exchanges gradually developed as well. Da Jia Jenn Lann Temple was the one that made a detour around Ishigaki-gima in Japan and went on the pilgrimage to the ancestral Mazu Temple in Mei Chiou, China even before the ban. In this way, it became the prologue to the cross-strait religious exchanges. However, Tzu Chi formally entered China in 1911, using a unique ＂Tzu Chi pattern＂ of exchanges and interactions until 2008, which was quite distinct from the exchanges between other religious groups in Taiwan and Mainland China. This study intends to investigate the case of ＂Tzu Chi pattern＂, in order to understand how a Buddhist Organization with specific image could enter Mainland China, an atheist country, to build religious exchanges; moreover, to find out the composition of religious exchanges between them, and furthermore, to discuss the reasons of this interaction with the view of church-state relation. From these discussing,this study will construct church-state relation theory on the cross-strait,that will become one of the political science theories.
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