After 1949, those monastics and laypeople of Buddhism in Taiwan originally from provinces in China were gathering together to form Buddhist societies as reciting and thinking the name of Amitābha Buddha everywhere and became a trend. After the Chinese Civil War and before the military dictatorship in Taiwan, questions such as the number of Buddhist societies as laypeople gathering together, number of Buddhist societies associated with Pure Land Buddhism, people who best represented Pure Land Buddhism, and the content of Pure Land Buddhism, all are worth to be discussed in more detail.