Second Life, a virtual world, has been heralded by some scholars and transhumanists as a sacred, “heavenly” space. Through detailed ethnographic work on Buddhist religious spaces in Second Life, this article argues instead that just as in actual life, virtual life is comprised of both sacred and profane spaces. By demonstrating different types of Buddhist spaces, community-practice-oriented and individual-practice-oriented, and the meaning that these spaces hold for practitioners, readers come to understand that the sacrality in Second Life is just as contingent and constructed as it is in the actual, physical world.

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虚拟世界中的圣境：第二人生中佛教空间的营造

第二人生，一个虚拟世界，被一些学者和超人类主义者誉为神圣的“天堂”空间。通过对《第二人生》中佛教宗教空间的详细民族志研究，本文认为，就像在现实生活中一样，虚拟生活由神圣空间和世俗空间组成。通过展示不同类型的佛教空间，社区实践导向和个人实践导向，以及这些空间对实践者的意义，读者开始理解第二人生中的神圣性和它一样是偶然的和建构的。真实的物理世界。