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Sacred Secularities: Ritual and Social Engagement in a Global Buddhist China
Surrounded by greenery and build on a quiet hillside in an unincorporated suburban community of Los Angeles County lies a brightly colored Chinese Buddhist temple. This Temple, Hsi Lai Temple xilai si 西來寺 or ‘Coming West Temple’ in English, is one of the biggest Chinese temples in the US and serves as the North American headquarters of the modernist Han Buddhist order Fo Guang Shan 佛光山 (Buddha’s Light Mountain). The Buddhist tradition promoted by Fo Guang Shan is renjian 人間or Humanistic Buddhism.1 It is a modern Buddhist tradition with its roots in late 19th and early 20th century China that has become Buddhist mainstream in Taiwan today (Long 2000). Fo Guang Shan is one of the biggest promoters of this tradition, not only in Taiwan but on a global scale, and while different groups have adapted different interpretations of renjian Buddhism, one of the primary characteristics of this modern tradition is a new esteem for society, or, in other words, the sphere of ‘the secular’.
僧侶的書跡僧侶的書跡——星雲大師一筆字的筆墨情星雲大師一筆字的筆墨情
筆者自幼學習書法，高中老師引領進入「日本書作院」書學體系，日本書作院的恩師是日蓮宗東京戒行寺的住持星弘道老師，學習過程裡雖以書道為主，但弘道老師的佛學背景也在書寫內容裡、生活應對中，一點一滴影響筆者。因為師學背景關係，所以筆者對於佛僧書法也特別關注，凡在日本的相關書跡必親自前往觀看真跡。筆者曾經研究元代趙孟頫書法對日本的影響，感於元明時代的禪僧書法線條氣脈穩定、畫面力量從容，因此對於僧侶書法藝術境界之探求有更深的期望。
九二一震災聯合公祭驅驚生亡兩利大法會
九二一震災聯合公祭驅驚生亡兩利大法會 Taiwan September 21st Earthquake Dharma Service
禪淨密三修獻燈祈福法會
禪淨密三修獻燈祈福法會 Chan, Pure Land, and Esoteric Dharma Function and Light offering Ceremony
佛誕節浴佛暨三皈五戒法會
佛誕節浴佛暨三皈五戒法會 Buddha’s Birthday Celebration and Triple Gem Refuge and Five Precepts Ceremony
