聖嚴法師『以禪攝淨』的詮釋及其運用

Abstract:
法鼓山聖嚴法師倡導「提昇人的品質，建設人間淨土」的思想，跟禪、淨的實踐手段有直接關係。他雖極重視彌陀淨土法門，並有多部這方面的專著，但法師有以「以禪攝淨」的方式來淨化人心，達致建設人間淨土的目的。本次演講主要闡述聖嚴法師以禪宗四祖道信強調使用專注稱念佛名以證入「一行三昧」，來論證禪淨雙修的可行性及禪宗如何使用念佛法門；接續論述法師如何運用永明延壽「一念成佛論」，在禪、淨二門中，主張以禪為主，以淨為輔的主從關係；最後檢視法師如何承繼雲棲袾宏的「參究念佛說」，考察其禪觀與淨土思想。基此，聖嚴法師「以禪攝淨」的目的與他倡導的「提昇人的品質，建設人間淨土」有密切關係，透過「一念相應一念佛，念念相應念念佛」的理念，信奉者可以在「相應」的當下體悟到「淨土」，這也是「人間淨土」得以成立的原理。

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Short Bio.:
Professor Chen Chien-Huang earned the B.A. degree from the Department of Chinese Literature in National Taiwan University, and the M.Phil and PhD degrees from the Department of Chinese in the University of Hong Kong. His research fields include Amitābha Pure Land study and academic thoughts in Song and Ming period. He is also teaching at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature in National Pingtung University and used to serve as dean to the Office of Research & Development, secretary-general, and the head of Department of Chinese.

Prof. Chen has won the Special Talent Awards from the NSC in 2012, 2013, and 2014. Appointed by ROC government, he serves as the committee member of Academic Reviewal and Evaluation Council of Ministry of Education, and NSC Special Project Review Committee. In recent five years, he has examined and approved more than forty academic articles for the important journals in THCI Core list. As a publications committee member, he examined seven books for the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences of NSC, and several publishing companies. Prof. Chen focused his academic interest on Amitābha Pure Land teaching, Humanistic Buddhism, and Humanistic Pure Land in the recent half decade. In the study of the early Chinese Amitābha Pure Land approach, he concluded the clear track of the development of Pure Land’s argumentation. Combining with the thoughts of Chan Pure Land and Huayan Pure Land, Prof. Chen developed the doctrinal structure of Amitābha Pure Land approach, and received fruitful achievements by elaborating the history, thoughts and practice of Chinese Pure Land approach.

The main research achievements of Prof. Chen are as follows:
-The Practice Vision of Buddhist and Neo-Confucian: Chan-Pure Land Practice, Meditating Experience, and the Judgment of Neo-Confucianism (Xin Wenfeng, forthcoming);
-Unsurpassed Upaya and Proceeding Joy: Circumjacent Relationship between Amitābha Pure Land and Humanistic Pure Land (Gandha Samudra Culture Company, 2015);
-An Overview of Miaoyun Aranya’s 50 years: A Record on Preaching the Buddhist Teachings of Huili and Changguang Miaoyun (Changchunteng Shufang, 2015, co-author);
-100 Selected Sentences from Buddhist Classics: Three Pure Land Sutras (Simplified Chinese edition, People”s Oriental Publishing Company, 2014);
-100 Selected Sentences from Buddhist Classics: Three Pure Land Sutras (Business Weekly Publications, 2010);
-Wandering through the Pure Land Dharma Door: The Orbit of Amitābha Pure Land Sect Developed by Tanluan, Daochuo and Shandao (Business Weekly Publications, 2009);
-Questions and Answers on the Pure Land: an Introduction (The Grand East Book Company, 2004);
-Prove the Truth in the Universally Penetrating Way: Pure Land Enlightenment by Yinguang (The Grand East Book Company, 2002);
-and more than forty academic articles.