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提合唱团、蒲种普门善导寺妙音歌咏组、 上随着时代而进化。佛曲专辑方面，我们
霹雳怡保佛教福利社灯塔合唱团、森美兰 看见了曲风与呈现上的不同。大型演出方
客家公会联合会合唱团及博大佛学会绿 面，音乐变化不大，但可以发现更多的演
缘佛曲合唱团。主要表演格式以四部大合 出在视觉上增添了层次感。发展依然各型
唱、男女小组合唱及独唱进行，曲目风格 各色，唯离不开的是佛曲专辑的陆续推
较倾向古典类，演出时伴奏多以现场钢琴 出，音乐剧的作品陆续登场如《遇见观
或吉他为主。近期，也由太平佛教会培养 音》、《药师如来》和《地藏》。菩提工
出太平佛教会儿童合唱团一起参与演出。 作坊也在这期间推出《动》舞台剧。马佛
青在迎来50周年庆典之计，也正如火如荼
《海潮汇》的届数以演出次数为单位，因 地筹备《真善美的旋律》第三张专辑。
此至今已经进入第十四届。《海潮汇》有
两点可贵之处：其一，一般说到与佛曲 马来西亚是发展佛曲的福地。这好几十年
有关的群众，大多数会和青年或青少年 来不断地蜕变，在进入网路时代，佛曲以
连接。《海潮汇》的成员目前大多是中年 后的面貌会是如何，目前尚无法预测。在
人。这个平台为这年龄层爱好佛曲的人们 实体专辑时代的后期，我们如何从网上的 THE DEVELOPMENT OF
提供了一个舞台。佛曲，不只是属于年轻 聆听和点播，掌握佛曲对佛教徒的实际效 MALAYSIAN BUDDHIST HYMNS
人的！其二，能欣赏四部和声的群众，肯 应？如何让佛曲在网路的世界，一往如常
SENG TAK PIN
定不比能够欣赏一般佛曲的人来得多，所 般容易获得？更让投资的佛教单位至少可
以《海潮汇》能坚持以四部合唱方式演 以拿回制作成本，用于下一回的佛曲制
出，实在不容易，应该多给予鼓励！ 作？对于这些未知，让我们深深祝福与期 Malaysian Buddhist hymns can trace its was at Penang Buddhist Association
待。纵然，所有佛曲的出现，皆不应也离 roots back to the 50s and 60s. At that which marked the very beginning of the
如今，佛曲形式已经进入稳定，唯有方式 不开它最核心的价值──弘法！ time, Mandarin-speaking Buddhism development of Malaysian Buddhist
activities mainly revolved around Buddhist hymns.
chanting, while Buddhist hymns were not
common. In comparison, English Buddhist Buddhist hymns were passed on orally
hymns were more popular, and they were until the 70s. Buddhist organisations
translated and sang in Mandarin or in the started to compile the Buddhist hymns into
Hokkien dialect. books for easy sharing and dissemination.
‘Buddhist Hymns’ published contained
The rise of English Buddhist hymns had English hymns and were played mainly
to be credited to Venerable Sumangalo using guitar. The covers for the three
who was in Penang at that time. volumes of the publication were brown,
Venerable came from a Christian family blue, and pink in colour respectively.
in the United States. In order to entice
younger generation in learning Buddhism, For Mandarin Buddhist hymns, they
Venerable propagated Dharma by singing were performed as group singing by
Buddhist hymns. One of the centres various Buddhist organisations. See
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