“岂不怀匡济,天运当何如”──论天然禅师的安攘匡济情怀与通脱的应世方式

清初岭南佛门领袖天然禅师,年轻时抱有强烈的报国安民的情怀。虽然在明亡之前即已剃度,但安攘济世之心并未泯灭。甲申、乙酉之后,身为僧人的他,并未真正弃绝世事。他的一些行为仍与变乱的时局密切相关。其后,他在诗歌中不断地抒写着故国丘墟之感。其沧海桑田之作俨然前明遗民。尽管如此,他并没有拒绝与新朝官员的交接。甚至其诗歌中还有一些肯定新朝官员的作品。可以看出天然禅师在应世方式上是相当通脱的。

On Hanshi Monk's Love of the Native Country and His Approach of Flexible Savoir-faire

Tian Ran was a Buddhist monk leader in Lingnan in the early Qing Dynasty.In his early years,he had a strong sense of serving the country and pacifying the people.Prior to the Ming Dynasty＇s fall,although he had been a monk,this sense was not extinguished.Some of his behavior was still closely linked with the social upheaval of the then period.He liked the native country and continued to express this feeling in his poetry.However,he did not refuse to have contact with the officials of the new regime but even affirmed their achievements in his poems.His savoir-faire approach was quite flexible.