佛教传到中国，因受到气候文化的影响，改以十方丛林并制定清规，使僧人有一修行之聚所，并形成共住规约的戒律。面对时代变迁，当代僧侣的生活作息与清规的制定，是否需要因地制宜？数千年来，佛教虽走过灭佛的危机，所幸少许法脉的传承，及高僧大德的护持与宣扬，使佛教得以延续。尤其当代佛教团体成立各种组织机构，或以僧团、或以在家居士为组成对象，甚至创立宗派教团等，其形态有山林亦有都市寺院的不同，对于佛法修持的方式，对佛教基本精神的诠释，亦有其不同的见解，佛教人才的世代交替，亦具有研究的意义。

After its spread to China, Buddhism readapted to the local climate and culture, and allowed a new set of rules and regulations to be established in order to provide monastics a place to live and practice. Confronted with the changes of time, do these rules require further adaptation to suit modern day monastic lives? For thousands of years, several Dharma lineages have survived despite multiple persecutions of Buddhism, added with the support and propagation by eminent masters, the continuance of Buddhism has been enabled. Modern Buddhist groups have established various organizations and institutions consisting of monastic or lay members. Some even established their own schools and orders inside forests or urban areas, each holding different views on the ways of practice and the fundamental spirit of Buddhism. Thus the change of generations amongst talents in Buddhism has become a topic of study here.