星雲八十

「遠見」緣

高希均

星雲大師的一生：改革了佛教、改善了人心、改變了世界。

（一）
近二十年來對我影響深遠的一位長輩就是星雲大師。
我不是佛教徒，也不諳高深的佛理，但常能從他倡導的平易近人的人間佛教中，獲取很多啟示。即以辦教育而言，我一生教書，能教出多少學生？他所創辦的三個大學—美國的西來大學、台灣的南華大學與佛光大學—一年就培養出上千的大學生與研究生。

《遠見》雜誌促成了我們相識的因緣。那是一九八九年三月，大師第一次從大陸訪問回來，我們邀請到了他在台北做一次公開演講。

我第一次親身感受到大師的魅力。當時的台北已經出現了「找演講者不易，找聽眾更難」的現象。二千人的大廳居然擠得水洩不通。我緊張地做了開場白，大師就展開了動人的九十分鐘演講。這應當是四十多年來台灣第一次對大陸行所做的公開演講；星雲大師創下了歷史的一頁。

從那次以後，大師答應了《遠見》的請求，變成了我們的專欄作家、書的作者及傳主。他的文章及文集受到廣大讀者的肯定；符芝瑛寫的《傳燈》、滿義法師寫的《星雲模式的人間佛教》更是洛陽紙貴，傳誦海內外。使我感到格外興奮的是：大陸來訪的學者與新聞界朋友，都盼望能得到大師的著作。

（二）
在相識的過程中，每隔一段時間，我都有機會向大師請益。所討論的題目，很少談及宗教，大多是環繞著教育、文化、社會、生活等層面。最近幾年我們都憂慮陷入難以突破的兩岸關係，以及台灣的泛政治化。

當大師以愈來愈多的時間在海外傳播人間佛教時，他就愈來愈是個地球人。如果從他的高度與視野來看這世間的一切—他的四句話最容易引起共鳴：
‧人生最大的毛病是自私。
‧人生最大的悲哀是無知。
‧人生最大的勇氣是認錯。
‧人生最大的本錢是尊嚴。

這些年來台灣社會的紛紛嚷嚷，不正就是一些人的自私、無知、不肯認錯、沒有尊嚴嗎？

（三）
今年三月中有個難得的機緣隨大師赴長沙的岳麓書院聆聽他的演講。這個已有千年歷史的書院，迎來了佛光山的高僧。正碰上春雨的長沙，數百位聽眾在露天的中庭穿著雨衣，專心地聆聽大師的講話。這真是從未見過的感動場面：「綿綿細雨中，佛義在傳授；一問一答間，智慧在跳躍。」

然後朱漢民院長請我做十五分鐘的結語，其中有一段話我是這樣向聽眾說的：

「一位十二歲出家的揚州和尚，二十三歲從大陸到台灣，不諳台語，飽受譏諷，但腦無雜念，心無二用，投下了五十年的心血，開創了一個無限的人間佛教世界。

隨著國際佛光會的散布全球，隨著中國社會的逐步開放，星雲大師還有更多的人間佛教事業要做，更長的人間佛教道路要走。

近年來，大師多次受邀訪問大陸，他對中國大陸的愛心，已經播下了友誼的種子，遲早必然會對海峽兩岸有所貢獻，發揮對社會人心淨化的功能。

此刻如果他誕生的土地需要他來協助建立一個和諧社會，我們相信他一定會樂於貢獻出他的心力。」

（四）
今年是大師八十大壽，佛光山開山四十週年。除了要出版一本仍由符芝瑛執筆的新的傳記，書名是《雲水日月》外，我們特別編集了《星雲八十》來表達敬意。從兩百多張珍貴的照片中，我們看到了大師一生的縮影：如雲之飄逸、如水之清澈、如日之燦爛、如月之圓滿。

Foreword 1 –Global Connection

The life of Master Hsing Yun reformed the Buddhist religion, bettered people’s hearts, and changed the world.

One of the greatest inspirations of my life for the past twenty years is Venerable Master Hsing Yun.

I am not a Buddhist, nor do I understand the profound Buddhist theory, but the inspirations from Humanistic Buddhism as propagated by him reached my heart surprisingly effortlessly. When it comes to education, I could be a teacher my whole life and only nurture a very limited number of students. Master on the other hand, has established University of the West in America, and Nan Hua University and Fo Guang University in Taiwan, which are nurturing thousands of university graduates and postgraduates each year.

It was Global View Monthly Magazine that gave me the opportunity to meet Master. It was March 1989, Master had just returned from a visit to mainland China and came to deliver a talk we had invited him to do. That was when I first felt Master’s charm.

As Taipei was experiencing a phenomenon where listeners were harder to attract than the already hard-to-find speakers, I was astonished to see a hall for two thousand packed with people. After an introduction made nervously by me, Master began his ninety minute talk. This was perhaps the first public talk in forty years that involved details of a trip to China, and it was indeed a new page of history written by Master Hsing Yun.

After that, Master promised to be Global View’s columnist, writer and biography protagonist. Not only have his articles and literary works received wide recognition, his biography – Handing Down the Light: The Biography of Venerable Master Hsing Yun (Chuan deng: Xing Yun dashi zhuan) written by Fu Zhiying and book Humanistic Buddhism in the Hsing Yun Model also became bestsellers in and outside of Taiwan. What maked me even excited was the requests made by visiting scholars from China for copies of Master’s books.

Throughout the different stages of our acquaintance with each other, I have had the opportunity to ask Master many questions. The contents of our discussions consisted of very little religious issues, but more of education, culture, social and life-related matters. A worry that we share is the cul-de-sac cross-strait situation, as well as the politicization of Taiwan. 

The more time Master spends propagating Humanistic Buddhism abroad, the more he resembles a global citizen. If we look at this world from his angle and view, the following four sentences said by him would make the best resonance with the world:
The greatest problem of life is selfishness.
The greatest sadness of life is ignorance.
The greatest courage of life is the ability to admit one’s faults.
The greatest asset of life is dignity.

Aren’t people’s selfishness, refusal to admit one’s faults and indignity exactly the causes of continued chaos in today’s Taiwan?

In March this year, I accompanied Master to Yuelu Academy in Chang Sha, China and listened to a talk he had given. This thousand-year-old learning institute greeted the eminent Master from Fo Guang Shan. In time of the spring rainy season, hundreds of listeners gathered in the courtyard, shielding themselves from the rain with rain coats, and listened attentively to Master. This was in fact an extremely touching scene, the Dharma was passed down amidst the gentle sprinkle of rain, and wisdom bounced between each question and answer. 

In the fifteen minute conclusion, which Zhu Hanmin, the academy president asked me to deliver, I said to the audience, 

“A boy from Yangzhou became a Buddhist monk at the age of twelve and arrived in Taiwan at twenty-three. Despite not understanding the Taiwanese dialect and being constantly ridiculed, he maintained a clear vision and put his mind into accomplishing it. After fifty years of painstaking effort, he found an unbounded world of Humanistic Buddhism.”

With the worldwide development of Buddha’s Light International Association and opening up of China, Master Hsing Yun is faced with increased work for Humanistic Buddhism and a much longer journey to travel.

In recent years, Master has been invited to China on several occasions, and his love for mainland China has sown the seeds of friendship all around. It is only a matter of time that Master makes contribution to the cross-strait relations and begin to purifying society and human minds.

At this moment, if his birth place requires his assistance in establishing a harmonized society, I believe he will be more than happy to give it his best effort.”

As we celebrate Master Hsing Yun’s 80th birthday and Fo Guang Shan’s 40th Anniversary, we have published the 80 Years of Master Hsing Yun in addition to Yun-shui-ri-yue (The Biography of Master Hsing Yun) to pay our tributes to him. From these two hundred or more extremely precious pictures, a summary of Master Hsing Yun’s life is presented to readers, one that is as elegant as the clouds, as crystal-clear as water, as radiant as the sun, and as perfect as the moon.

Charles H.C. Kao

大師一生的縮影

王力行

一九八八年九月以前，我們從未接觸過台灣佛教，更不認得任何高僧大德。 
是遠見雜誌記者符芝瑛南下高雄，去採訪了這位當代佛教界的重要人物星雲法師，才讓我們得緣親近大師。

記得十八年前符芝瑛就寫著，星雲為佛教界寫下不少「台灣第一」。他創辦第一所佛教學校；他是第一位用白話文寫佛學書籍、第一個用廣播電視弘揚佛法的僧侶；台灣第一部佛教電影是根據他著的《釋迦牟尼傳》改編的。是星雲法師，在台灣率先舉辦佛學講座、佛教音樂會；率先接引大學生、兒童、婦女參加佛學夏令營；率先讓社會人士體驗「短期出家的僧侶生活」。

十八年來，有許多機會請益星雲大師，更瞭解他當年隻身飄洋過海，到台灣篳路藍縷，一手創建佛光志業；那麼大的願心，那麼大的識度，那麼大的波瀾，只為了實踐「佛教人間化、佛教生活化」的宏願。有人問他：全球五大洲奔波，是為了什麼？他說：「這奔波不是為了我自己，只要為需要的人，為佛教，我就去了。」 

因著他的理念，一步步完成他的理想。目前佛光山的志業被公認為僧眾最多、信眾規模最大、國際化程度最高、法制化最完備、最強調教育和文化事業。

因著他的願心，一步步完成「佛光普照三千界，法水常流五大洲」的善績。

他的「人間佛教」，真是一個突破舊觀念、舊思維、舊方法，跨越舊領域、舊道場、舊信眾的偉大工程：
‧創辦了十六所佛教學院，培養僧才一千二百多人，媲美佛陀時代的千二百比丘，堪稱有佛教歷史以來素質最高、最有世界觀的僧團。
‧佛光山在海內外有一九○座寺院道場〈台灣有七十四座，海外一一六座〉。全球信眾超過二百萬人。
‧在美、台創辦了三所大學。在台灣創辦二所高中(職)，二所中小學，四所幼稚園(托兒所)，八所社區大學，海外則成立了五十多所中華學校。 
‧重編藏經，翻譯白話經典。
‧成立出版社、圖書館、電台、人間衛視、《人間福報》、九所佛光緣美術館等。 
‧透過佛教梵唄、美術、書法、人間音緣等方式，將人間佛教送到社會各個角落。五十年來，國内外的佛學講座、開示、弘法大會超過四千五百場，聽衆多達上千萬人次。

五十七年前，一個出生揚州、沒有受過正規教育、沒有拿過一張正式文憑的僧人，來到台灣宜蘭的雷音寺；五十七年後（今年3月），他在湖南長沙有千年歷史的嶽麓書院對學子演講佛學。他念玆在玆的，是希望那塊啟蒙他佛心的的土地，啟發他佛願的人民，也能真正體驗佛法的慈悲、歡喜、和諧。

今年，佛光山開山四十周年，正逢星雲大師八十大壽。我們特別編撰《星雲八十》一書，聊表敬意。這本書主要以照片來繪述五十多年來大師的行腳和志業。 蒙大師應允，指派負責佛光緣美術館的如常法師，書記院滿義法師、妙廣法師、妙昕法師，英文翻譯妙光法師……協助；大師也親自挑選一些過去不常曝光的照片，加入這本畫傳中。

從這些照片看來，沒有一張是刻意要留下生命印記的。大師一生都在「給人信心，給人歡喜，給人希望，給人方便」，在他人生各階段應人應時需求的這些隨緣留影中，尤其得到印證。累積了數十年的歷史影像，貫串大師的生命史，彌足珍貴。

《星雲八十》呈現的是大師一生的縮影——讓有心的讀者，在這些平凡的影像中，去感知一位不凡智者的悲心與願力。

Foreword 2 –An Epitome of Master Hsing Yun’s Life

Before September 1988, we were amongst those who have never encountered Buddhism in Taiwan, let alone getting to know any Masters. The time for such an opportunity came when Global View Monthly Magazine journalist Fu Zhi-ying traveled to Kaohsiung to interview Venerable Master Hsing Yun.

From as far as eighteen years ago, Fu Zhi-ying was already writing about how Master Hsing Yun created many ‘firsts’ for Buddhism in Taiwan. For example, he established the first Buddhist school, the first to compile books on Buddhism in modern language, the first Buddhist monk to propagate Buddhism on radio and television, and the first movie about Buddhism was adapted from his novel The Biography of Sakyamuni Buddha. Furthermore, he was the first to organize Dharma lectures and Buddhist concerts, Buddhist camps for college students, children and women, and Short-Term Monastic Retreats for members of society.

For the past eighteen years, I have had many opportunities to ask Master questions, through which I learnt about how he crossed the ocean to Taiwan and established the Fo Guang Shan Order. Such a grand vow, big heart, and big momentum were all for the accomplishment of his vision in “humanizing Buddhism, and making Buddhism more life-related.” When asked why he travels around the world on such a hectic schedule? He replied, “All of this rushing about is not for myself but for those in need. As long as it is good for Buddhism, I will go.”

He took one step at a time in accomplishing his ideals, and Fo Guang Shan is now recognized as the Buddhist organization with the largest monastic community, largest lay devotees’ community, highest level of internationalization and most complete system of management, and also one that places the greatest focus on educational and cultural undertakings.

Following his vows, he took one step at a time in “Letting the Buddha’s light shine on the three thousand realms, and the stream of Dharma to flow across the Five Continents.”

His idea of “Humanistic Buddhism” is indeed a breakthrough of traditional concepts, thinking modes and methods, and also a grand project that leaps over old territories, old temple styles and conventional followers. For example: 

‧He established sixteen Buddhist colleges and fostered more than twelve hundred monastics, just like the twelve hundred bhiksus of Buddha’s time. It is also known to be the Buddhist order with the highest quality and global prospects in the world. 
‧Fo Guang Shan has more than two hundred branch temples (74 in Taiwan, 116 across the globe) and two million devotees worldwide.
‧He established four universities in America and Taiwan, two High Schools, two Junior High Schools, four Kindergartens, and eight Community Universities in Taiwan. There are also more than fifty Chinese Schools outside of Taiwan.
‧He re-edited the Buddhist Canon and compiled the Buddhist sutras in modern language.
‧He established a publishing house, libraries, radio stations, Beautiful Life Television, Merit Times Daily News, nine Fo Guang Yuan Art Galleries and many more.
‧He has brought Buddhism to every corner of society through the use of Buddhist chanting, art, calligraphy, the Sounds of the Human World Music Competition.

Fifty-seven years ago, a monk born in Yangzhou with no formal education or even a formal diploma came to Lei Yin Temple in Ilan, Taiwan. Fifty-seven years later (March, 2006), he gave a lecture in front of students at Yuelu Academy in Chang Sha, China. What he has long hoped for is to bring compassion, joy and harmony of Dharma to the people of the land that nurtured his buddha’s heart and great vows.

In time of Fo Guang Shan’s 40th Anniversary and Master Hsing Yun’s 80th Birthday, we have compiled The 80 Years of Venerable Master Hsing as a tribute to him. This book contains pictures that illustrate 40 years of Master’s footsteps and endeavors.

We are grateful to receive approval from Venerable Master, and for assigning Venerable Ru Chang from Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Venerables Man Yi, Miao Kuang and Miao Sin from Master’s Secretary Office, and Venerable Miao Guang to assist in the making and translation of this book. Venerable Master has also personally selected some very rare pictures for this photographic biography.

From these pictures, we can see that none of these traces were made deliberately. Master has dedicated his whole life to the practices of “Giving others hope, giving others joy, giving others confidence and giving others convenience.” These are the proof of his constant dedication to helping those in need throughout the different stages of his life. Furthermore, as historical images from many decades, these are also the threads that link up Venerable Master’s life stories, which are extremely rare and precious.

The 80 Years of Master Hsing Yun presents an epitome of his life. Readers shall be able to experience the compassion and vow of this extraordinary and wise man.

Li-sing Wang

江蘇江都人，曾參學金山、焦山、棲霞等禪淨律學諸大叢林。

一九四九年春來台，一九五三年創宜蘭念佛會，奠定弘法事業的基礎。

一九六七年創建佛光山，以人間佛教為宗風，致力推動佛教教育、文化、慈善、弘法事業。先後在世界各地創建近三百所道場，又創辦多所美術館、圖書館、出版社、書局、雲水醫院、佛教學院，暨興辦西來、佛光、南華、南天及光明大學等。

一九七○年後，相繼成立「大慈育幼院」、「仁愛之家」，收容撫育孤苦無依之幼童、老人，及從事急難救濟等福利社會。一九七七年成立「佛光大藏經編修委員會」，編纂《佛光大藏經》、《佛光大辭典》。並出版《中國佛教經典寶藏精選白話版》，編著《佛光教科書》、《佛教叢書》、《百年佛緣》、《貧僧有話要說》等。

二○一七年五月發表《星雲大師全集》，共三百六十五冊，收錄畢生著作。

大師弘揚人間佛教，以地球人自居，對於：同體與共生、平等與和平、環保與心保、幸福與安樂等理念多所發揚，於一九九一年成立「國際佛光會」，被推為總會會長，實踐「佛光普照三千界，法水長流五大洲」的理想。

王力行，為遠見‧天下文化事業群發行人兼事業群執行長。政大新聞系畢業後，一直獻身於新聞及出版事業，在1970年代主編《婦女雜誌》與《綜合月刊》，並赴港任《中國時報》香港辦事處主任。1981年與高希均、殷允芃共同創辦《天下雜誌》，並任副總編輯。1982年創辦「天下文化出版公司」，1986年創辦《遠見雜誌》。現為遠見‧天下文化事業群發行人兼事業群執行長。

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