弘揚淨土：呂碧城（1883-1943）女居士學佛歷程的夢境書寫

Promoting the Pure Land: Dream Writing of Lü, Bi-cheng (1883-1943), the Female Buddhist in the Course of Learning Buddhism

呂碧城（1883-1943），民初著名文學家、教育家、佛教女居士。本文旨在探析呂碧城學佛歷程中，所書寫關於佛法的九個夢境，以及夢境與修行，夢境與覺悟之間的關聯及涵義。莊子談人生如夢，《金剛經》裡亦稱：「一切有為法，如夢幻泡影。」夢虛幻不實，然而它卻對應著作夢者的現實生活，及其身心靈的世界。從呂碧城的夢境書寫中，看見虛實之間的越界，由夢境帶來的徵兆、指引與印證，對應的是深修佛法的工夫，由此鋪展開來即是十五年的學佛歷程。換言之，夢境讓呂碧城對修行更加篤定，並深信彼岸的佛國淨土，是她在現世致力弘揚淨土後，終將獲得的回報與依歸。因此，由夢境而起行，夢境則帶來覺悟的意義。

Lü, Bi-cheng (1883-1943), the famous litterateur, educationalist, and the female Buddhist, devoted herself to Buddhism in the beginning of the Republic of China. This article aims to discuss the Nine Dreams of Buddhism, dreams, religious practice and the associated meanings between dreams and consciousness when Lü, Bi-cheng was in the course of learning Buddhism. Zhuangzi said that life is but a dream. The Diamond Sutra also said that all things contrived are like dreams, illusion, bubbles, and shadow. The dreams were unreal, and the dreamland corresponded to the real life of the dreamer and his body, spirit and soul. We could find the crossing boundaries between fantasy and reality about the signs and guidance, confirming which was brought by the dreamland and corresponded to the great efforts of studying Buddhism for fifteen years. In other words, the dreamland made Lü, Bi-cheng more assured for her pursuing religious practice of Buddhism and entirely convinced that the Sukhavati was the reward place she would ultimately reach and was also her residence in mind after she was committed to promoting the Pure Land in this life. Therefore, she advanced simultaneously in her understanding and religious practice owing to the symbolic meaning of her dreams and she would finally get the Buddhist enlightenment.