跨文化学习让世界更美好
四年前见到扎维萨克理查纳(Thavisack Litsana)时,我正在老挝首都万象的东明宫(Dongmieng temple)采风。扎维萨克出生在北方农村,后被当地一座寺院收留,当了修行僧。
老挝40%的人民生活在贫困线以下,每日仅靠约7元人民币补贴度日。但即使在那样的条件下,他也是一个充满好奇心的小沙弥,能讲英语,语速缓慢但语法正确。他憧憬着学习商业管理,而为此则需“学习英语和计算机”。他还知道如何实现,说:“我四点起床先做早课,再学习。每天早晨在化缘的路上通常背上10个新单词,这样英语技能就会突飞猛进了。”
有了这样的专注,今日扎维萨克给我的邮件自然言语流畅,充满了修习得来的'早慧。事实上,他的英语水平非常高,位列今春全球雅思考生第97名。介于此,扎维萨克获得了每年分配给老挝学生的仅有的几个美国大学交换项目名额。扎维萨克认为,修行生活前三年与其他7名沙弥挤在一间房里令他学会超越。“寺院经历塑造了今日之我。”他说。
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Four years ago, I met Thavisack Litsana while I was taking photos at Dongmieng temple in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. He was a Buddhist monk-in-training in the care of a local monastery, having been born poor in the country’s northern farmlands. Forty percent of Laotians live below the poverty line, subsisting on around seven renminbi per day. Even back then Thavisack was a very curious young man who spoke English slowly, but well, for a boy of 16. Even though he was a “novice” monk, he wanted to study business administration, and to accomplish that he needed to "learn English and computers.” And he knew how to make that happen: “I would get up at four in the morning to pray and learn afterwards,” says Thavisack. “I often recited over ten new English words every morning when I walked to beg for alms. This way, I could improve my English skills very fast.”
Given such dedication, it’s not surprising that Thavisack’s emails to me today are eloquently phrased and full of early wisdom borne of a life of prayer and study. His English is so good, in fact, that this spring Thavisack took the IELTS exam and scored in the top 97th percentile of all test takers. That accomplishment earned him a spot in a university exchange program in the United States, one of only a handful given to Laotian students every year. Thavisack believes his austere life at the monastery where, for the first three years, he shared a room with seven other novices gave him the discipline to excel. “Entering the temple has shaped who I am today,” he says.
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