本文主要探討艋舺龍山寺的兩個附屬組織「艋舺龍山寺觀音會」和 「艋舺龍山寺唸佛會」，此兩會成員以女性為絕大多數，表面上看似無關 緊要、可有可無之一般信眾組織，但實際上她們才是龍山寺主神觀音的主 要虔信者，也負起龍山寺日常事務與祭祀活動中重要的角色，她們當中還 有些擔任清潔工作（以前還包括廚房煮食工作）的效勞生，有些在各種法 會或慶典中擔任誦經生。本文透過史料應用與田野調查探討龍山寺觀音 會與唸佛會的組織沿革，兩會成員所參與的法會活動，並與龍山寺管理階 層男性優位的現象相比較，探討這些女性虔信者在艋舺龍山寺的日常運作 與廟會活動中所扮演的角色與地位，從而理解觀音信仰中已然顯著的女性 面向。

Two associations affliated to Lung-shang Temple at Wanhua, Taipei are explored in this paper. Kuan-in Association and Buddha-chanting Association, both belong to Lung-shan Temple are organized by mostly female true believers of the major deity of this temple. These two associations seem not so important, and look like so trivial. But these female members are very active in the everyday work of the temple, and play an important role in all sorts of religious activities in the temple. Some of them come to the temple very early in the morning to clean everything in the temple. Back in the earlier days, they also cooked for the all in the temple. They chant Buddha’s names and Buddhist scripts day and night, especially in the religious festivals many times a year. Through collecting historical and field data, the historical development and the organization of these two associations will be investigated, and the religious activities engaged by the members of these two associations will be described in detail. Finally, a brief contrast with the managing body of the temple majorly occupied by male members will be shown by some empirical data to reveal the conspicuous dimension of gender in which the female true believers of Kuan-in in Lung-shan Temple, organizing themselves into two associations are indeed the important running body of the temple. They deserve our attention in order to understand the female dimension of Kuan-in belief in Taiwan.

觀音信仰；艋舺（萬華）龍山寺；女性；信徒組織；神明會；臺灣 佛教

Kuan-In；Manka (Wanhua) Lung-Shan Temple；Female；Believers’ Organization；Deity Associations；Taiwan Buddhism