佛教傑出女性獎頒獎典禮致詞
釋昭慧講·張瓈文譯
敬愛的主持人，各位法師、來賓、女士、先生：
感謝Outstanding Women in Buddhism Awards Committee的提名人修懿法師與諸位委員，將“佛教傑出女性獎”頒贈給我。我是一介平凡的比丘尼，是佛法的卓越智慧，讓我的人生脫胎換骨，因此在此殷重地感恩佛陀、達摩與僧伽對我生命的再造之恩！
我的學術背景是教育與漢學，然而在大學時代，我深深受到佛法的感召，因此決志皈依叁寶，終身素食，而且在1978年出家，那年我才二十一歲。
二十八歲，受到阿闍黎印順導師的提攜護念，開始進入佛學院授課，並在他的指導下，展開了佛教學術研究的路程。直到1994年，我開始進入大學任教，至今已出版了26本著作。
原本以爲，自己應該是以“學者”與“教師”的角色走完人生之路，但是因緣際會，我竟然從學術象牙塔走了出來。叁十二歲，成立了護教組織，讓世人改變其動辄侮慢僧尼、曲解佛法的偏頗做法。1994年，抗議異教徒鏟除公園中的觀音聖像而掀起了“靜坐絕食護觀音運動”。1999年，推動了“佛誕放假”的全國性大規模運動，因而改變了臺灣數十年來“只有耶誕單獨放假”的政治生態。2000年，又發起了“廢除八敬法”的佛門性別平等運動，此後並推動跨宗教的性別平等理念。
在社會運動方面，1989年，我開始越過佛教領域，第一次廁入社會關懷的事業，從此，人權、環保、動物解放、反賭馬、反賭博合法化……，一系列的社會運動，沖撞著既有的法規體製與思想觀念。凡此種種，往往集有志之士的“共願”，而轉化或減除了深重的“共業”。
也因爲上述經曆，我曾被佛教友人笑稱是“橫跨叁界”(學術界、教育界與社運界)。此中，教理的研究與實踐，依然是精神力量的源頭活水。無論是主導或參與任何一種社會運動，我都不隨波逐流，而是在教理的基礎上，全心反省並全力實踐。而在實際的參與過程中，個人在法義體會的收獲上也最大，因爲那不再只是經典的智慧，而已滲入生命底層，而成爲人生處世的智慧。
無論是護教、護生還是提倡女權，社會運動大都顛覆著既成體製或思想觀念，或是涉及钜大的既得利益，因此必然會被反擊、醜化，廁身其中的張力很高，必須要有無常、無我的緣起智慧，否則很難保持平穩的情緒。
首先，事態發展的因緣是如此的錯綜複雜，因此即使全力以赴，其結果也未必讓人滿意，以此“諸行無常”的觀照，使我只專注在過程中的決策與行動，對其結果則淡然處之，不會陷入患得患失的憂悲惱苦中。“諸法無我”的深刻體會，則使我對個人處境淡然視之，從不憂讒畏譏，即使各方羞辱、謾罵交攻，乃至當事人恩將仇報，我也從不自憐、自戀、自怨自艾。
謹此向各位分享我的人生體驗，這是爲了證明一點：清涼、安穩的人生境界，不一定非得在禅堂與阿蘭若處訓練不可，也可以在每一件忘我利他的菩薩行中，達致同樣的效果。
在每一次的生命曆練中，你可以讓自己的生命更具足疼惜衆生的慈悲、觀照世間的智慧，以及沛然壯闊的膽識與勇氣。感謝大家！
Address in Outstanding Women in Buddhism Awards Ceremony
Respectable Host(s), Venerables, Honored Guests, Ladies, and Gentlemen,
Thank you very much for nominating me, Ven. Shou-Yi (修懿) , for recommending me for this Outstanding Women in Buddhism Award. And thank you very much, respectable committee members, for conferring me this very precious award. I am just a very ordinary bhikkhuni. It is the excellent wisdom of Budhadharma that has transformed my life. Therefore, I would like to dedicate my most sincere and profound gratitude to the blessings that the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha have given me, blessings that have fundamentally re-created my life.
My academic background focused on two areas: education and sinology. However, during the years in the university, I was so deeply touched by the Buddha Dharma that I made up my mind to take refuge in Tri-ratna (the Three Jewels), remain a vegetarian throughout my life, become ordained in 1978. That was the year when I was 21.
When I was 28, with the help and guidance of my Acarya, the most Venerable Yin-Shun(印順) , I began to teach at Buddhist colleges and started the journey of academic research in Buddhism. In 1994, I stated teaching in the university, and up till now, I have published 26 books about Buddhism.
I once thought that I would complete the journey of as a Buddhist scholar and teacher. However, due to various causes and conditions, I walked out of the ivory tower of the academic world and started participating in different engaged Buddhist movements. When I was 32, I established an organization to protect Buddhism, to change the misled behaviors of the secular people that tend to distort the Dharma and debase monks and nuns whenever they can. In 1994, with “the Hunger Strike to Protect Kuan-yin” movement, I initiated a strong protest against the respect-less act of the non-Buddhists who tried to demolish the Kuanyin statue in a public park. In 1999, I advocated a national movement to have the Buddha”s birthday set as a national holiday so as to change the Christmas-only national holiday system in the political arena, a system that has favored Christianity alone for the past decades in Taiwan. In 2000, I initiated the “Abolishment of the Eight Special Rules for Bhikkhunis,” a movement to promote true gender equality in the Buddhist community. Ever since then, I have also crossed the religious boundary and worked with spiritual leade…
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