※ 引述《starbabear (人心要自由)》之铭言： : 九月底参加了法鼓山的皈依大典， : 其实两年前就很想去了， : 当时是很希望由圣严法师来帮我皈依， : 但因为临时有不可抗拒的事情就无法参加了， : 现在觉得还是有点淡淡的遗憾， : 这次终於如愿在果东法师的见证下皈依三宝成为学佛的弟子 : 很开心~看到皈依证上面的法名， : 说来可能有点夸张~ : 但真的突然觉得好像有种开启新生人的感觉~ : 我想问一下法名的取法是怎麽来的， : 现在已经到"演"字辈了， : 我得到的名字是"瑗"， : 是方丈法师本人帮我们取的吗? : 有甚麽规则呢? : 我估狗到有人说， : 法名是法师看过皈依人的照片根据对此人的感觉取的， : 真的是这样吗? 是的 : 不过我到现在还想不太出来"瑗"这个字背後 : 法师想要告诉我的意涵或是勉励我的是甚麽? : 查了以後，才知道"瑗"是指中空圆形的玉， : 再细分"瑗"是窄边孔大的圆形玉 <--> 宽边孔小就是"璧" : 还满有趣的~ : 总之希望有人可以帮我解答一下 : 皈依法鼓山的法名到底是怎麽取的唷 : 我真的满想知道的~谢谢^__^ 上篇推文提到的英文解释在 法鼓山英国的western chan fellowship所出的new chan forum刊物第39期有 http://www.westernchanfellowship.org/uploads/media/ncf39.pdf 最後一篇 Visiting Shifu at Dharma Drum Mountain David Brown’s Account 写着师父为英国众授皈依 We had a refuge ceremony. Seven of us gathered in front of him and took the three refuges and the precepts. There was great force behind the feeling engendered. The power of history was behind us and there was a great feeling of coming home to a universal'rightness'. Individually we went up and knelt before him. He gave us a card with our new Dharma name on. I was very moved. My name was 'Chang Ke'. We were given necklaces with Sakyamuni on one side and Kuan-yin on the other, very beautiful. We were given lovely glass wrist malas. I was totally blown away with all this. Not just a high point of the trip but acentrally important pivot in my life. An old and wonderfully impressive <nun> later explained tome what 'Chang Ke' meant. 'Chang' is to do with constant, continuous, everlasting or eternal. 'Ke' is overcoming, surmounting problems or victory over difficulties, so it's something like'Eternally Victorious'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She explained how the name is not necessarily a description of where you are <<but a hint about where you are NOT!>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 女众法师对英国众的解释↑ 也就是说法名不是用来彰显你已经很好, 而是表示你所不足...有待精进完善的期许 瑗绝对不是说你已是那种孔大的玉.... 而是你更需要琢磨才能成那种孔大的玉 孔大表示什麽??这你慢慢修至成佛就知道了 另我个人猜测写这篇文章的英国菩萨的法名可能是<常克> -- 不管任何事 只要经过自己的身口意 就要将他转换为佛法 并将这麽好的法 传播出去 ※ 编辑: poohkoala 来自: 180.218.205.150 (10/01 12:39) ※ 编辑: poohkoala 来自: 180.218.205.150 (10/01 13:02)