The Significance of Education for Life in The Select Novels Series of Masters in Buddhism

• Main Authors: Ding,Hui-Fang, 丁慧芳
• Other Authors: Huang,Yachun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69340158956410063737

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 兒童文學研究所 === 101 === In all the past dynasties, the eminent monks transcend the worldly through their life courses to pursue the life value. And in their life courses, there are many paragons that can nourish our life. The sages and the virtuous in the biography are often been the models of life learning process for the children and the early youths. The author patiently analyses and extracts the enlightenment for children’s life education from the twenty volumes of The Select Novels Series of Masters in Buddhism, published by Dharma Drum Culture. In the first chapter, the preface, the author consults theses and special writings of the literary biography and life education to explore the writing technique of the literature statement and the characteristic of the Masters in the Select Novels Series. The second chapter, the significance of education for life, is divided into two sections. The first one is to probe into the significance of education for life through the past history of life education in Taiwan. The other one is to discuss its significance from five different areas. In the third chapter, the author confers the techniques of narrative in the Novels Series. Its literary characteristics are respectively displayed by the structure of the plots, the arrangement of account with timing, the techniques in the beginning and the ending. In the fourth chapter, the description of the moon is its characteristics. The life situation of the leading role is presented separately from the description of the moon in Buddhism and the description of the moon in the research text. In the fifth chapter, four aspects are conferred for the significance of life education, which are human being and oneself, human being and others, human being and environment, and human being and the universe. The sixth chapter is the conclusion. In the research, the author discovers that the arrangement of the plots in the Novels Series is shown the most with the structure of episodes. It was narrated by several episodes that were expressed by several causes, processes, and results, added interest to the novels. You can find that the Masters in the same generation respect to each other, ask each other for advice, and interact with each other very often. You can also find that the Masters passed down their tradition and wisdom, experience and influence, from generation to generation. In all their life, there are actually many ways, especially from the four aspects mentioned above, which can be the models for us to learn and emulate in life. However, what we know is limited. Something that is related to miracles and legends could bring about a dispute which might be offered as a topic to explore between science and religion. Keywords：the novels series of masters in buddhism, the novels for early youth, education for life, the biographies for children