Before retrocession, Buddhism in Taiwan consisted of Japanese style Buddhism wherein ascetics can eat meat and marry, or a kind of mixed form which allowed ascetics to keep their hair but required that they follow a vegetarian diet.
光復以前，台灣的佛教以可以吃肉娶妻的日本化佛教，和一種混合佛道、帶髮修行的「齋教」為主。