陳榮基部落格 RONG-CHI CHEN BLOG學醫與學佛: 2017

Clinical Buddhist Chaplaincy Program for Hospice Care Started in Taiwan

Chen RC*

Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation, Taipei City, Taiwan

Chen RC, BAOJ Pall Medicine 2017, 3: 4 3: 044

BAOJ Pall Medicine, an open access journal Volume 3; Issue 4; 044

file:///C:/Users/DD/Desktop/palliative-44.pdf

Short Communication

*Corresponding Author: Prof Rong-Chi Chen, MD, PhD, FANA. Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation, Taipei City, Taiwan, Tel: 886-963602818; Email: rongchichen@gmail.com Sub Date: December 4th 2017, Acc Date: December 8th 2017, Pub Date: December 8th 2017

Citation: Chen RC (2017) Clinical Buddhist Chaplaincy Program for Hospice Care Started in Taiwan. BAOJ Pall Medicine 3: 044.

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Since the introduction of hospice palliative care into Taiwan in 1983 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9322344 ), Taiwan first enacted a natural death act, Hospice Palliative Care Act (https://bioaccent.org/palliative-medicine/palliative-medicine09.pdf ) to give people to have the right of choosing do-no-ressucination (DNR) in 2000. In 2016, Patient Self-Determination Act (file:///C:/Users/DD/Downloads/JSD17002.pdf ) was legalized to progress from DNR to advance care planning (ACP). As the president of the Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation (LHCF) (http://www.lotus.org.tw ) and vice-director of the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and founder of the Hospice Palliative Unit of NTUH, I had the chance of starting the Clinical Buddhist Chaplaincy (CBC) training program (http://bioaccent.org/palliative-medicine/palliative-medicine19.pdf ) in these two organizations in 1998. The International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB) held its 18th Biennial Conference 2017 in Taiwan in Nov. 22-29, 2017 ( https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/international-network-of-engaged-buddhists-focuses-on-conflict-compassion-and-interbeing-at-18th-biennial-conference-in-taiwan ) under the theme “A Conference on Interbeing: Transforming Conflict by Compassion,” aiming to provide platform for broad-based dialogue and cooperation to address the challenges facing engaged Buddhism over the next decade. It was attended by more than 180 monks, nuns and scholars from 23 nations. On Nov. 22, a Symposium on Buddhist Approaches to Dying and Hospice Care in Taiwan (http://inebnetwork.org/30513-2/ ) was held at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (http://www.dila.edu.tw/en ). I gave a brief introduction of “The beginning of Buddhist hospice care in Taiwan”( https://goo.gl/XSJafB ). I invited the first two mentors, Ven. Huimin, Prof. Ching-Yu Chen, and the current leaders in CBC training program, Ven. TsungTueng and Ven. Frances Lok to make introduction of their works. Ven. Huimin (President of Dharma Drum Institute for Liberal Arts) talked on “Creating an indigenous Buddhist model for end of life care”. Prof. ChingYu Chen (professor of Family Medicine, NTUH) talked on “spiritual issues of Buddhist hospice care in Taiwan”. Ven. Tsung-Tueng (director of the Great Compassion Institute) talked on “community hospice care & Buddhist monastics”. Ven. Frances Lok talked on “training of Buddhist monastics in hospice care”. Since the CBC training program was the first in the history of Buddhism and hospice palliative care, this

Symposium roused great interest among the international audience. This CBC training program was introduced into Japan by Japan Zenseiky Organization in 2013 http://www.e-discoverypublication.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/JSD17005.pdf ). We hope it will further spread to other nations in the future, especially in those nations with great portion of Buddhists in their population.
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171210 Followup comments from Jon Watts:

Hi everyone!! I finally made it back to Japan but have needed some serious self-care after a totally crazy month of November! During the main INEB Conference, there was sooo much interest in Buddhist chaplaincy training, especially amongst a wonderful group of Thai monks from Sekiyadhamma. Very exciting! I am slowly building back up in terms of work and will be in touch over the next weeks about follow up from our conference.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1611969045483023/
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CBC related articles
1.     Watts JS, Tomatsu Y. 2012. The Development of indigenous hospice care and clinical Buddhism in Taiwan.
in Watts JS, Tomatsu Y. (eds). Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2012.
http://jneb.jp/english/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Indigenous-Hospice-Care-and-Clinical-Buddhism-in-Taiwan.pdf
2.     陳榮基〔2013年5月號〕健康E世界：欣見臨床佛教宗教師參與安寧緩和醫療的制度從台灣傳到日本
http://www.health-world.com.tw/main/home/tw/thishealth_edit.php?id=65
3.     Chen RC. 2017
Clinical Buddhist Chaplaincy Training Program:History of the Development of Taiwan’s Clinical Buddhism
Journal of Scientific Discovery Citation: JSci Discov (2017);1(1):jsd17005;DOI:10.24262/jsd.1.1.17005 http://www.e-discoverypublication.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/JSD17005.pdf
4.     陳榮基〔2017年9月號〕健康E世界：推廣臨床宗教師制度，協助病人安詳往生／陳榮基
http://www.health-world.com.tw/main/home/tw/thishealth_edit.php?id=887
5.     Chen RC 2017/11/22 Speech given at INEB 18^th Biennial Confernece at DDM Institute of Liberal Arts
http://www.lotus.org.tw/doc/171122INEB%E9%99%B3%E6%A6%AE%E5%9F%BA%E8%AC%9B%E7%A8%BFCBC.pdf
or https://goo.gl/XSJafB
6.     Chen RC. 2017. Clinical Buddhist Chaplaincy Program for Hospice Care Started in Taiwan. BAOJ Pall Medicine 2017, 3: 4 (3: 044)
file:///C:/Users/DD/Desktop/palliative-44.pdf

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