英文摘要 |
Shih Shu-ching has been practicing Buddhism with Master Sheng-Yen for the last ten years, and has published Master Sheng-Yen’s biography Deadwood Blossom and Where the Mind Resides, a travel book about pilgrimage. However, few have studied the associations between Shih’s novels and these two books. This paper aims to analyze how Shih Shu-ching’s Buddhist training influences her novels Walk Through Luojin and Dust in the Wind. For the first novel, we analyze how Shih uses the Buddhist perspective on body, "Practices of the Bones of the Dead," to convey Buddhism’s understanding of the body as impermanent. In Dust in the Wind, though there are no obvious Buddhism references, the author still uses the strong and weak bodies to portrait Buddhism’s body perspective and to convey the same message. |