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On Reincarnation and Emptiness
分類
論文
期別
《人間佛教學報‧藝文》第56期
作者
Dr. Lewis R. Lancaster
單位職稱
Emeritus Professor, University of California, Berkeley
編者
妙凡、蔡孟樺主編
摘要
The importance of the idea of reincarnation was brought to me one afternoon in a small Sherpa village in Nepal near Mt. Everest. The village had a small Buddhist temple and it contained Tibetan texts that interested me. When I asked if I could look at the texts that were housed in the shrine room, the guardian of the temple said they were being kept for the Lama and were not available to others. I asked if I could meet the Lama, expecting to hear that he was on a trip and away. Instead, the person said, “You can. He is just over there in that house” and he pointed to it nearby. I walked over and was greeted by a woman holding a young child. They were both very beautiful and their resemblance noticeable. As you may guess, the child in her arms was the Lama. She explained, looking at the boy with a mix of pride, reverence, and sadness: “This Lama has come to me and I must care for him until he is ready to be trained again.” She was aware that by the time he was five or six, he would be taken from her to live his life as a Lama.
引文
Dr. Lewis R. Lancaster:〈On Reincarnation and Emptiness〉，收入妙凡、蔡孟樺主編:《人間佛教學報‧藝文》第56期，高雄:財團法人佛光山人間佛教研究院，2025年 03月，頁146-157。
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