Buddhism is a large and rich foreign culture, and its introduction into china has had a profound impact on all aspects of chinese culture, to the extent that many of the terms that we use daily, such as the world are real, practical, equal, present, scrambling, the world of thousands and so on, come from the buddhist community. The world seeks buddhist literature and preserves it in the best possible way in china, thus demonstrating how buddhist culture affects and embraces traditional chinese culture。
So what problems did buddhism encounter before it was introduced into china as a product originating from ancient india? How can it be integrated step by step with our original chinese culture and eventually become part of our chinese civilization
Main problems encountered by buddhists in china
(1) what is the role of buddhism in our secular life? The chinese nation was a well-established one, and buddhists had become more mature civilizations and values when they entered china. The traditional values of chinese civilization are characterized by a lack of value for the next and a rebirth. In our traditional civilization, whether it be a confucian or a dowler, it is simply a birth, a passing away, but a difference in attitude and way of life in this life. Confucius said, “whatever life you do, you talk about in this life is how this world should live and how it should live, both of which express the essence of the rebirth of chinese culture。
The second characteristic of traditional chinese civilization is the absence of ghosts. And confucius said, "i don't know what to say." buddhists want us to practice, to jump out of six circles, to live and die, to reach nie-sung, which is difficult to understand in traditional chinese culture。
(2) what does buddhism say? How can buddhist philosophy and the tens of thousands of words of buddhist scriptures be clearly understood? After more than 100 years, the french can be largely severed by the fact that the law is too high and has no popular basis. There is no way for ordinary believers to understand what the french people are saying. When there is no mass base, communication becomes difficult。
(3) the pattern of buddhist reform and the economic resources of monasteries are at odds with the secular economy as a whole. Traditional buddhism is provided for, free of labour and does not contribute to the national economy. Moreover, buddhist practice promotes abstinence of desire, which must include the desire of men and women, and although marriage is a personal matter, the birth of children is a matter for society as a whole. In former farming societies, no children were born, or the decline in fertility resulted in a decline in competitiveness across the country. In farming societies, the sheer size of a country's population determines its absolute power. We read the novel the three nations, which attributed the failure of china to liu bei, guan yu and zhang fei ying to the death of a young man whose fate had fallen to the heavens. But the real reason is that there are only 7. 5 million people in the country, and that there are more than 5 million people in the country, and that fundamentally the country has been defeated because of its incompetence. Thus, in ancient times, if a religious concept was one that promoted birth control, the ruling class would not tolerate the existence of such a religious concept。
(4) other minor issues are minor contradictions. Buddhists also encounter other minor problems in entering china, such as the shaving of buddhists, while chinese say that their parents must not be damaged; buddhists do not allow their followers to bow to their knees, and they believe that if they are to bow, they can only bow to buddha, while chinese kneel from ancient times to the elders, to the emperor, etc。
As a result, buddhism enters china and is in conflict with chinese culture to some extent and in some ways. Thus, when buddhism enters china, it is bound to undergo a certain degree of change, as a result of which it has evolved into more sects, which have solved these problems more successfully。
The holy land solves what buddhism says and what it does
First of all, it is the purified landchurch, how can it be solved? A very simple solution to what buddhism is saying and to what use it is for us. First of all, the theory of the net natives believes that so much pain in our world is due to the fact that we were born in the world of the east, and that the root of the suffering is in the wrong place and in the west to deal with it. To go to the west, you just have to keep reading "the buddha of the south," which means that i have converted to the buddha. The lord of the west's clean land, amitabha, can feel it, and when we leave the east, it will lead us to the west. What if you have trouble reaching the other side before you leave the orient? We can solve our problems if we read the "southless buddha". It was thus a complete solution to the suffering of the world in this life, and it was so clear that it soon had a large number of believers in china。
Zheng zheng resolved the conflict between the rebirth of buddhism and china's traditional culture
Buddhistism has given birth to many factions, among them zen, who is popular with china, and zheng, who solves the problems that the net natives have failed to solve. As he once said, “the easters are in trouble and pray for the west. "where does the west make sin and pray?" the qur'an thinks that shing buddha is going to the best of the west, and the zion thinks that the beginning of the book will become buddha, that it will not have to look forward to the next life, that it will not have to go to the world of the west, but that you will become buddha in this life, provided that you know your heart. This is in keeping with our chinese tradition of rebirth, a tone set for zheng zhong by the six-joe who, along with me and confucius, is known as the sanctuary of the east。
And how did zen build it? Zheng's practice is basically to teach the faithful a little story about some of the philosophy or buddhist principles of the story. "what are you doing?" the monk replied, "i'm a buddha." the wizard then picks up a piece of brick and grinds it in front of a monk. The monk said, "what are you doing?" the teacher said, "i'm in the mirror." he said, "can it be a mirror?" the monk said, “can it not be a mirror, or can it be a buddha?” and then mazu realized. This story vividly illustrates zen's view of the practice: the most fundamental question of zen's practice is to find buddha in the drop of life, to find buddha in his heart。
Zen's clean-up rules have helped zheng zong flourish
It is the zen master who has given zen zheng a steady and growing presence in china. The rules we now see at the temple are based on the concept of the quantification rules. The most important and most respected point of the order is the transformation of the former chinese monks into an economic model whereby they are forced to beg and fed to feed themselves, a system that requires the monks of the monasteries to stop working and eat every day, and all the monks of the temples to feed themselves through their work. This is highly respected by our hard-working people. And his disciples loved him when he had given birth to the master of the sea when his years were high, and he took away his hoofs, and kept him from working, and the master of the sea was determined not to do so, and even went on a hunger strike. As a result of this insistence, zen has been well received and respected by the chinese nation and has been constantly promoted。
