This study departs from my investigation of female disciples’ progress in Fo Guang Shan Dunhuang Dance Group. I study the disciples’ family background, personality, personal history and research into how these women turn to religious commitment because of surrounding factors in their life and how they choose Dunhuang Dance as the proper medium to connect their own body, mind and soul to adapt to life. In the triangular model, through the disciples’ self-interpretation in the face of their sources of pressure in life, I discover how they manage to find religious commitment in life. By way of the choreographic essence and group dynamics in Dunhaung Dance, these women produce individual meanings of their unique corporeal awareness of their selves during practices and performances, and interpret their own experiences with these meanings. I demonstrate how women, when overwhelmed by annoyance of everyday life, move out of their group along the Line of Flight, approach Body without Organs with the divine, sublimate their consciousness and finally return to secular mundane life. Chapter one introduces the motivation, background, goal, methodology as well as materials and data of my study. Chapter two provides a literature review, which includes the history of Dunhuang Dance and its religious significance, which elicit the topics of the study; the passage from religious belief to identification with one’s own body, which forms the axis of the study, and a survey on Deleuzian concepts such as Body without Organs, Rhizome, Line of Flight and molecules of different stages that function as the structural elements of the study. Chapter three follows the structure and applies the methodology introduced in chapter one and extensively explores the organization of Fo Guang Shan Monastery and the disciples, the main concern of the study. Chapter four attempts to analyze the interviewees of the study and examine my research findings with scholars’ profound theories. Chapter five is the end and the conclusion of the study, which addresses the question: after undergoing self-reorganization and recuperative process, how does one return to secular life and keep improving oneself; that is, how does one adjust oneself and return to quotidian life? The aim of the study is to evoke a possibility to excavate, find and accept the Line of Flight for us from limited accessible resources in life.
