After the mainland fell to the communists, the Chinese Buddhist Association and a few ascetics came with the Nationalists to Taiwan. After they began to ordain local Buddhists, they began to change Taiwan's Fujianese-Japanese style of Buddhism.
大陸淪陷以後，中國佛教會和為數不多的出家人也跟著播遷來台，並藉由傳戒的認可，開始改變台灣閩南化、日本化的佛教。