The Research On The Ethical Thoughts Of Chinese Buddhism

In the developing history of China,the Buddhism plays a very important role. After the Sinicization of the Buddhism ,it became one of the most important religious form in China. And it also became one part of Chinese traditional culture.The ethical thoughts of the Buddhism is one part of the thoughts and culture of Chinese Buddhism, and it is also an integral part of the Chinese traditional ethical thoughts. As the ethic of religion, the Buddhism etihics of Chinese plays a special role that is irreplaceable by secular ethic. It also bears the realistic function of the religion to the society and human life.According to the historical mission of saving the nation from subjugation and ensure its survival in morden China,and the time significance that was centered by modernization.The hierarches and recluses that was representated by Tai Xu stood on the point of the tradition of Chinese culture, and absorbed the theory of the specific time, they created the thought of"Earthly Buddhism",and at the same time they realized the new interpretation of the other Buddhism doctrine, for example, Cittamatra. On this basis, they used the thought of"Earthly Buddhism", freedom, evolution as the new theory fundation of the ethical thooughts of Chinese Buddhism. At the same time they used promoting education and loving country as the princple of ethic. They used the ethic of career, technological ethic, revolutionary ethic and organizational ethic as the new perspectives of the ethic of Chinese Buddhism. They also did a series of modern interpretation on the viewpoint of life and the major ethical entries of the ethic of Chinese Buddhism.The Research on the ethical thoughts of Chinese Buddhism on one side can make the essence difference the between the modern ethical thoughts and the traditional ethical thoughts of Chinese Buddhism clearly ,and at the same time it also can give some advice to the construction of ethics system of contemporary China.