高僧
白圣长老 (1904 - 1989)
简历
白圣长老，宇洁人，法名白圣。他1904年生于中国湖北应城市， 18 岁到安 徽九华山祗园寺出家，然后毕业于湖北佛学院。长老历任上海楞严佛学 院教务主任、杭州西湖凤林寺住持、上海静安寺监院（兼佛学院院长）。
长老1948年赴台湾后，担任台北十普寺、监济护国禅寺的住持。他也创办 佛教三藏学院、佛教研究院，并担任台湾中国佛教会理事长。同时，在 国际佛教界，长老也被推选为斯里兰卡世界佛教僧伽联合会副会长、越 南世界佛教服务社会协会副会长、大韩民国世界佛教联合会副会长等职,也兼任泰国佛光学苑、马来西亚极乐寺住持等。
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工艺品描述
Buddha Amitabha is in Dhyani (meditation) mudra, his palms folded face up, while his right hand is on top of his left hand, just below his abdomen. This mudra is connected to Indian samādhi (Concentration), the practice of intensely meditating on a single object in order to become completely absorbed in thought or the one-pointedness of the mind (Ekaggata).
历史背景
Amitabha is the buddha who governs the Western Paradise. He is revered by the Pure Land sect, which is considered the largest Buddhist sect in China. Japan. And Vietnam.
Some Mahayana sutras revealed previously unknown celestial Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who joined Buddha Shakyamuni in the growing pantheon worshipped by the Mahayana movement.
According to the Land of Bliss (Sukhavatuvyuha), Buddha Shakyamuni declared that a Bodhisattva known as Dharmakara, who lived on Earth eons earlier is now a Buddha named Amitabha, presiding over a celestial paradise known as Sukhavati.
Sukhavati is described as a heavenly realm in the western reaches of the cosmos, fertile with fragrant flowers and fruits, resplendent with golden and silver trees bearing gems not found anywhere else - a Pure Land whose inhabitants' dwells in infinite bliss.
Devotees are said to be reborn in the Pure Land of Sukhavati when their mortal lives end if they faithfully recite the name of Buddha Amitabha.
参考书目
Charles F. Chicarelli, Buddhist Art: An Illustrated Introduction, 2004, ISBN 974-9575-54-7
阚正宗, 台湾佛教史论, 宗教文化出版社, 2008, ISBN 9787802540040 7802540046