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| Socially Engaged Buddhism: Amidism in Action=無牆寺院 | ||
| 作者 | Duguid, Modgala=度吉德, 末加拉 |
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| 出處題名 | 國際佛教善女人大會（第11屆）=Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women(11th) |
| 出版日期 | 2009.12.28 |
| 出版者 | Sakyadhita: the international association of buddhist women |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.sakyadhita.org/ |
| 出版地 | HCM City, Vietnam [胡志明市, 越南] |
| 資料類型 | 會議論文=Proceeding Article |
| 使用語言 | 中文=Chinese; 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 會議地點：越南胡志明市；時間：2009.12.18 - 2010.01.03；大會主題：傑出的女性修行者與典範=Eminent Buddhist Women |
| 摘要 | This paper concerns my personal journey of integrating Amidism with my desire to work to relieve suffering in the world. It is one story of how Amidism fosters and supports socially engaged Buddhism. I wanted to help relieve suffering and, at the same time, realized that “helping,” in the commonly understood sense of the word, often did more harm then good. This is why, nearly 12 years ago, I became a nun. I knew I needed training and that, despite my experience in community work and academic study of psychology, I had much to learn. Amidism is a school of Mahayana Buddhism, which was taught by Nagarjuna. The school is based on the teachings found in the Pure Land sutras, which were propagated by Shan Tao in China, later developed by Honen and Shinran in Japan, and now starting to penetrate the West. After several years as a student of this school, I joined the Amida community based in Newcastle (U.K.) in 1998. I ordained as an Amitarya, a follower of Amida (Amitabha) in their Amida Centre in France that summer. I took bodhisattva vows that incorporate celibacy, making me a nun in the Amida order. I have 237 vows that govern the whole of my life. These are not quite the traditional bhikshuni vows, as they have been adapted to modern life and its demands and dilemmas. I took Reverend Dharmavidya as my teacher in Amida’s “monastery without walls.” This paper will discuss ten years of my work as a socially engaged Buddhist. In Zambia, a country rife with HIV/AIDS, I worked sharing the Dharma and offering the gift of “non-fear.” In Bosnia, I worked with members of different faiths dealing with the psychological wounds of war. In India, I worked with volunteers who teach English as a foreign language and with very poor children who were affected by the tsunami in Tamil Nadu. Currently I am based in the U.K., linking different Buddhist networks, including Sakyadhita U.K., the Network of Engaged Buddhists, and the European Buddhist Union, where I head the committee for youth and am currently recording secretary. I speak as a working-class woman who was very ignorant about world issues and life in other countries, with many misconceptions and prejudices. My experiences opened my eyes to the complex issues facing people in each country. Despite the different problems people face, the Buddhist teachings have much to offer and are well received around the world. 十三年前，當筆者正考慮要全心投入佛教徒的生活修行時，由於我們的老師對於「無牆寺院」的洞見，吸引筆者加入阿密陀組織（Amida Order)。筆者看到其他文化傳統中的人民似乎習慣于較封閉式的佛教徒生活，從中因而瞭解到自己的使命是從事社會性的參與。而阿密陀組織似乎提供了最佳的機會，密集的訓練，「親自」並肩參與世界上動亂地區人民的行列。筆者曾在尚比亞、波士尼亞、印度、法國和英國的阿密陀組織工作。每一個國家，由於他們的傳統價值和特殊的歷史，讓筆者獲得不同的經驗。然而，佛陀的教法與筆者所有的一切經驗都是非常相關的。 自從加入阿密陀組織，特別是當筆者遇見 Sakyadhita之後，筆者發現到其他比丘尼眾也同樣不住在寺院，有些人是出於自己的選擇，而有些則是因為沒有其它選擇。這個工作坊將帶給與會者一個公共論壇，我們可以一起分享在如此嚴苛的生存模式中所面對的生活遭遇，一起討論當我們追求實踐菩薩道時所面臨的個式磨難考驗生活及掙紮生存於金援缺乏的窘境。從社區服務中，我們面臨到各種不同的需求，並且經常必須作出困難的抉擇。當代的社會往往令人感到困惑，尤其是在不同的文化中。對待婦女與比丘尼眾們的方式因不同文化而有所差別；儘管這樣的歧視經常是難以察覺，有時婦女所面臨的的困境讓人感到震驚。我們仍面臨許多挑戰。 在這個工作坊中，我們將分享居住在傳統寺院僧團之外的比丘尼眾經驗。大家一起討論彼此共同的關注、分享豐饒孕育我們的經驗、及工作上必須運用的工具與觀念，並期待建構一個互相支援協助的社區共同體。 |
| 點閱次數 | 920 |
| 建檔日期 | 2010.01.18 |
| 更新日期 | 2015.08.17 |
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