Peter D. Hershock, East-West Center, Asian Studies Development Program, Honolulu, Hawaii; hershocp@ewc.hawaiii.edu
關鍵詞
Karma=Kamma; 三寶=The Three Jewels; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 戲劇=Drama
摘要
In this paper, I assemble a set of narratives that will persuade us to refrain from seeing Buddhist families as either fundamentally biological or essentially cultural phenomena, but rather as dramatic communities in narrative motion away from saṃsāra toward nirvāṇa—communities intent on anuttara samyak sambodhi or utmost and all-encompassing enlightenment. Such a view of the family will stand in significant opposition to the interpretation of enlightenment as a peak and private experience; to the reduction (Buddhist) teachings to texts; and to the belief that it is on the basis of valorizing individuality and equality that we are best able to realize satisfyingly human community. Hopefully, it will also encourage us to question our own prejudices for minimally defining family and community in objective and institutional terms rather than in terms of dramatically exemplary or virtuosic relationships.
目次
Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha：The Three Jewels of Buddhistn Community 89 Family and the Payment of Karmic Debts 96 Family and the Concerted Making of Enlightening Karma 100 Works Cited 104
