當代的宗教現代化與國際化趨勢都使東西兩方的交流加速與縮短距離，向來被視為亞洲重要文化傳統的佛教，不但弘揚歐美，相對也將西方的宗教需求與概念回流入亞洲。在此複雜的互動過程中，禪修成為近二十年來貫穿東西方佛教的重要實踐觀念。東西方透過佛教這面鏡子互相透視／對視的當下，是否也改變對方？或者增進彼此對自己的理解？這是筆者關懷的重點。本文將藉由聖嚴法師在臺、在美弘揚禪法的實例，以漢傳佛教國際化的大脈絡為經，臺灣中產階級社會修禪為緯，探討亞洲禪修復興運動的另一模式。

The term of “modernization” in the international religious world means the frequency and distance of religious contact has been changed in such a rash way. Buddhism, as an important faculty of Asian culture, has been bridging the East and the West. However, the expending of Buddhism is not one-direction movement, initiating a complicated interaction which also reconstructing the Buddhist meditation tradition in Asia. In this paper I will discuss how Venerable Sheng Yen walked out the China Town and introduced the Chinese Ch’an an practice in New York, as well as combining Ch’an with Humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan in the previous global context. Hopefully, the achievement of Venerable Sheng Yen on promoting the Ch’an practice will illuminate the mutual interaction in the global Buddhist World.