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〔第26期徒眾短期研究班〕在南天寺登場 慈惠法師開示星雲大師人間佛教思想
神必須建立在佛法正見之上，但在弘法方式與表達形式上則應善巧方便、契理契機。她以大師早年在宜蘭雷音寺接引青年為例，大師並非一開始便講授艱深經典，而是透過文學創作、青年活動等生活化方式，引導大眾親近佛法。佛誕節期間，更曾以卡車載著白象巡迴宣傳，鼓勵青年參與廣播、獻花等活動，讓佛法在歡喜中走入人群。她強調，人間佛教不是離世、刻板的佛教，而是能夠融入當地生活、文化與節慶的佛教；只要不失佛法核心精神，善巧方便正是菩薩度眾的智慧展現。 追隨星雲大師弘法逾七十載，是否曾感到疲累？ 課堂中有學員請益，「追隨星雲大師弘法逾七十載，是否曾感到疲累？」慈惠法師分享，自己始終忙得法喜充滿，力量來源正是星雲大師所倡導的.....
The Influence of Indian and Buddhist Elements in Medieval China: A Study of Buddha’s Birthday Celebrations In Luoyang during the Northern Wei dynasty
The Buddha’s birthday festival reached an unprecedented level of grandeur during the rule of Northern Wei when its capital was at Luoyang (495 to 534 CE). Buddhism was indigenous to neither the rulers nor the native Han Chinese. Yet, the Buddha’s birthday celebration on the eighth day of the fourth lunar month became a popular ritual in which the entire city participated. This paper studies a particular phenomenon in this public ritual, the use of carriages in image processions, tracing the heritage of these carriages back to the religion’s land of origin, India, and their literary sources. The intention of this paper is to study the reasons for such phenomenal success, in particular as they relate to the functional role of a religious festival and how the tenets of a religion can enable itself to be popular and sustainable. The Buddha’s birthday is a relevant case study because over 1,500 years later, countries such as Cambodia, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam continue to celebrate it as their public holiday.
