| Summary: | 碩士 === 華梵大學 === 中國文學系碩士班 === 102 === Master Hiu-Wan (1912-2004) was a contemporary nun educator. Moreover, she also had remarkable achievements in philosophy, painting and poetry, especially her contribution to painting and education is widely praised and recognized. She learned paining from Master Gao Jian-Fu of Lingnan School, and became successor of Lingnan School. Regarding education, when the Master converted to Buddhism, she made vows to never build temples in her lifetime but to contribute only to education. Besides Huafan Institute of Sino-Buddhist Studies and Lotus Buddhist Ashram, she also founded Huafan University on Ta-Lun Mountain and guarded it all lifelong. As for philosophy, the Master had been teaching Buddhist Studies in Chinese Culture University in 1967 and her philosophy was based on the thoughts of Tiantai Buddhism. Her contribution in promoting and developing Buddhist thoughts was truly noteworthy. About poetry, the Master expressed her daily thoughts and feelings in poetry, she always had her words at hand and had written numerous poems about her life and fun. However, people often know the Master as religionist, educator and artist, but neglect her fruitful accomplishments in Chinese traditional classical poetry. Therefore, this study focuses on her poems and expects to learn more about the Master’s feelings and esthetics from her poems, and also know more about her life and fun. What’s more, to recognize the Master’s achievement in literature, discover a new aspect of studies on the Master, and also provide a broader vision for academic studies on the Master, letting people who already knew the Master have chance to explorer her inner world from a different aspect by her perms.
The first chapter of this essay aims to explain motivation and purpose of study, results and introduction of academic study, study materials, as well as study methods and processes. The second chapter is to discuss the life experience and creation background of Master Hiu-Wan, narrative and study is conducted based on her family background, learning and traveling experience and situated space-time environment. The third chapter describes the meaning of Master Hiu-Wan’s poems. Firstly, to combine the Master’s life background with her poems and divide into different stages to discuss the poem style and conception in each stage. Then, categorize the poems into Scenery, Feeling and Buddhism and discuss the content and meaning. The fourth chapter focuses on the writing style and conception of Master Hiu-Wan’s poems. Heart of poetry, concept of Zen and The sense of emptiness-the use of concept of nature in poetry is depicted in this chapter to integrate the four elements of poem style-Poetry, Zen, Emptiness and Nature, expecting to present the original sense of poem with more complete discussion. The fifth chapter, as the conclusion, is to sum up the points in first four chapters and summarize the gained knowledge of this study, recognizing Master Hiu-Wan’s achievement in literature and highlighting the poet image of this outstanding contemporary educator, nun, painter and philosopher.
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