Sui And Tang Dynasties, The Monks And Nuns Role

By all sorts of historical materials especially of stone inscription, the paper analyzes ideal part and actual part and characteristic and cause of part conflict of monastic in Sui and Tang dynasty by sociological theory of society part.The first, about ideal part of monastic considered by Sui and Tang society. The monastic had legible cognition about ideal part of monastic in Sui and Tang dynasties. They revered that monastic abide Buddhism commandment and disdained that disobeyed Buddhism commandment. We can see the society had specific criterion and desire for monastic about what should to do and what should not to do from people's saying and attitude to monastic of the day. The laws had also some rigorous punishment prescribe to monastic' actions of disobeying Buddhism commandment. The historical facts indicated Sui and Tang dynasties expected and desired mostly monastic to disobey Buddhism commandment and exceed the secular world and break away family.The second, about actual part of monastic in Sui and Tang dynasty. In that period, some monastic try hard fulfilled ideal part considered by Sui and Tang society, they had not hankered fame and gain, abide Buddhism commandment and exceed the secular world and break away family. But some monastic breached Buddhism commandment, exceeded conventional conception of breaking away family, they kissed the cup, or ate meat, or concerned politics and military affairs, or aspired after fame and gain. Some monastic kept away with family, and buried in forms of unreligious. And some monastic were in secularization, or gave up Buddhism belief and believed Taoism to give up the part of monastic.Again, about part conflict of monastic in Sui and Tang dynasty. The part'sconflict of monastic put up different characteristics in different of Sui and Tang period, the part's conflict of monastic were obvious in Sui dynasty and greatly outstanding in Tang dynasty, and that constantly more obvious. It had a good many of causes came into being part's conflict of monastic, the monastic oneself was very important one besides the aspect of Sui and Tang society.Some monastic had no longer fulfilled the ideal part considered by Sui and Tang society, they were "in the world" exceeded "out of world" and "in the family" exceeded "out of family". The name of "One became a monk or nun enter into religion" had already no factual meaning for them. The part's conflict of monastic in Sui and Tang period attributed to Sui and Tang society and monastic oneself etc, it was an inevitable direction of development of Buddhism in China. The ideal part of monastic considered by Sui and Tang society changed along with society, the part's conflict of monastic also changed along with society.The paper analysis the ideal part of monastic considered by Sui and Tang society and the actual part of monastic, explain characteristics and causes of part's conflict of monastic in Sui and Tang period, it has effectively proved the Buddhism attained complete secularization and Chinese traits in Sui and Tang Dynasties.