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The name of discrimination is like a branded livestock - opposition to the use of the title of "nun" Shi Zhaohui

The author at the beginning of the year (2Month 21 )During the Spring Festival Gala and Supervisory Board of the Chinese Buddhist Temple Association, a proposal was proposed: It is recommended to promote the "Buddhist Monks' Name Correction Movement" to widely promote the correct name of monks and nuns. (Men are called "bhikkhus", women are called "bhikkhus" or "nuns" ),In order to prevent the media from calling out "monk, nun, nun" and other words that are discriminatory and unpleasant.This proposal has been approved.

There are two reasons why I strongly recommend this name correction exercise:

1. The names do not match: Buddhist monks and nuns are corrected as "bhikkhu" and "bhikkhu".The original meaning of Sanskrit in "Bhikkhu" is "beggar", and "Ni" is the ending of the negative character in Sanskrit.A monk or nun refers to a monk and a woman who begs the Buddha for Dharma to nourish his life and begs for food from all living beings to nourish his physical body."Ni" is just a negative ending in Sanskrit. Therefore, the word "Ni" is added to the word "Gu". Both of them only express the female role, but they cannot express the meaning of a Buddhist female religious teacher at all.

2. Discrimination with words: The media and the general public often call nuns "nuns", which hides the meaning of discrimination against special ethnic groups.In terms of cultural context, because China's past family-centered culture excluded ethnic groups that did not pursue marriage life, monks and nuns often marginalize and even stigmatize them into intermediaries of eroticism and violence.Therefore, when using the word "nun", it is obviously a serious discrimination.

What makes me most sad is that over the past thousand years, society has imposed an incorrect and unfriendly name on the nun, but the nun silently accepted it without any room for resistance.As the end of life gradually became true, not only did the "nun" appear, but the "female nun" appear, but even the word "girl" that seriously despises the nuns appeared.This name has become an unforgettable nightmare for Nizhong.The Nikkans are like branded livestock, and discrimination is embedded in their names, and they will be like shadows throughout their lives.

It has been fifteen years for the author to reform this term, but it has not stopped until now.As soon as you hear this name, no matter whether the other party is malicious or ignorant, you will correct it seriously immediately.As long as you know that the media is in the name of "nun" or "nunny", you will immediately call or write to request a correction.After such a long-term effort, some media have been more cautious and often use "bhikkhuni" to call Nizhong.

Zhengna editor-in-chief and reporters always emerge in new people, and gradually they will return to the starting point, commonly known as "nuns" and "female nuns".The author even heard a colleague from the Department of Mass Communications informed him that when he was working in a certain TVB News Department in the past, he had discussed the names of monks and nuns internally, and the conclusion was: "Just call it 'nun', this word is more familiar to the audience."However, if the media only cares about the "familiarity" of the audio-visual masses and is devoted to the vulgarity, if the words "familiarity" of the audio-visual masses are wrong or are harmful to others, the power of media communication will aggravate and deepen its evil harm.Therefore, the media should not only not "familiarity" with this mistake, but should instead forcefully correct it.

Some people claim that the word "nun" does not mean discrimination. The author immediately asked him to review newspapers and magazines. Any negative news related to eroticism, violence, and crime, or highlighting the humble and vulgar character of the person, must be called "nun" or "nun";On the contrary, when encountering news that nuns positively educate people and save suffering, as well as nuns engaged in charity and public welfare such as Master Zhengyan, Master Xiaoyun or the author, the city will take the initiative to respectfully call them "Master".Under this situation, how can we say that the word "nun" has no discriminatory meaning?

Someone argued to the author: "Ni" and "Gu" are not discriminated against or indecent, so why should you be so sensitive and persistent about this name?The author asked back: "Fan" and "Zai" are not discriminated against or indecent. Why did the term "Fan Zai" become a great discrimination against the indigenous people?

Someone heard that the author was corrected by "Nun" or "Nun Master", so he protested to the author: "They are not my teachers, why should they call them "teachers"?"I asked back: You are not a Christian, and the pastor is not your teacher, so why do you call them "teachers"?It is obvious that you are still picking persimmons to eat, so you discriminate against nuns!Also, if northern China respectfully calls drivers "Master", is it possible that monks and nuns are not even as good as drivers?

People of any ethnic group should not be discriminated against, especially humiliated in their names.It hurts not only monks and nuns of minorities, but people who are currently in disadvantaged states of any identity, occupation, or race.This time SARS During the storm, even medical staff, who have always been widely respected by society, suffered from social discrimination.This proves that once discrimination is justified, it is like an omnipresent demon, and everyone may become a victim of discrimination.Therefore, even in order to avoid all the misfortunes caused by the justification of discrimination, we must respect the feelings of the Nie parties and should no longer call them "nuns" or "nuns"!

92, 5, 29th at Zunhui Building - published on June 1, 1992 "Liberty Square" of the Liberty Times

2024-02-05 18:09
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