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er for guiding us in our daily life. Venerable Miao Jia was our how horrified I felt upon hearing it. Despite of all that, we all
teacher, and she is still currently guiding students in DBS today. strived on and broke through.
She was always there to give us encouragement and pushing us
【系友篇】
to reach of our lim- Aside from classmates, I had also met lots of kind seniors who
it. I was a very quiet took good care of us and always gave us tips on studying. They
person back then. She were still helping me even today. There were also the juniors from
would always talk me the undergraduate class who always looked up to us for help. As

into joining different we all lived together, we were like one big family.
activities. Slowly, I
was able to feel at ease

in communicating with 在生命的轉彎處遇見佛教學系
others and working 文／吳芳儀
with them.

Another great memory that I have of DBS is my dearest class- 踏進佛教學系，
mates. In Canada, we never have the same group of classmates for 我無時無刻都能感受到師長
與十方大眾的的愛護，以及
different classes. Thus, we would have eight different groups of
佛教學系大家庭成員間的相
classmates in one day. Having the same classmates for the whole 互幫助與支持。
two years was a very new experience for me and I had made many
good friends. Together, we had struggled through the classes and

the thesis together. We also had fun together. In a way, we were
人生如潮水，有起有落。我是在人生困頓時來到了佛教學系。
like comrade, trying to finish up the thesis together. I still remem-
那年，我 27 歲。剛經歷過一場重大車禍。車禍，讓我驚覺原
bered how we had stayed up late night after night working on the
來死亡可以如此靠近！我問自己：若是死於那場車禍，此生是知足
thesis. We encouraged each other whenever we were down and
抑或悔恨？答案是悔恨。因為我承受父母與社會太多的恩澤，但一
stressful. There was time when my advising professor, professor
直以來身在福中不知福，更不懂得回饋，因而考進佛教學系重新學
Solonin asked me to rewrite two chapters. You can just imagine
習知足感恩、做人處事與承擔責任。
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