The Research On Meditation Out Of Prajna

Although the ideas of Tian Tai Sect are abundant and abstruse,pay attention to both theory and practice,and have profound and lasting influence,Prajna of contemplative illumination,as one of the main ways to concentration and contemplation,remains unknown to public. This dissertation puts the developmental process of Prajna of contemplative illumination from the time of HuiSi in Hen Mountain to the time of ZhiYi in Tantai Mountain in order,and thinks about the process from idea aspect and religious practice aspect.This dissertation has four parts.First,it researches the main origin and contents of Prajna of contemplative illumination,which mainly bases on the idea in meditation as diamond,mixes Prajna of middle way,Nirvana,the idea of ten stages and TathaAgata-garbha together,and takes LongShu's middle way idea as the leading idea. At that time,almost all the translated scriptures had some influences on Prajna of contemplative illumination. It bases its explanation of life and death on Darkness Without Beginning and Darkness With Beginning,takes contemplation of Emptiness without Beginning and Absolute Emptiness as the methods to break darkness,and makes use of AAlaya and Pravr!tti-vijn-aAna as the theory bases and tools.In the second part,it analyses the concentration and contemplation methods in Prajna of contemplative illumination,and points out that the character of HuiSi's meditation is that it mixes various kinds of meditation in Mahayana and Hinayanaand takes dharmataA meditation as the leading part. On the concrete practice of concentration and contemplation,his meditation has its base on all good deeds in religious practice to adjust monk's mood and help them to concentrate. The meditation also advocates making use of all methods to release all souls from suffering,and makes our pure land grandeur. It takes contemplation dharmataA as the overall rule and core idea,and widely adopts all practice ways in Mahayana and Hinayana.In the third part,the dissertation discusses the ZhiYi's earlier book enlightenment from Meditation which inherited and developed the idea in Prajna of contemplative illumination. ZhiYi inherited the ideas of his teacher's and reconstructed and developed them according to his own understanding. The following four aspects are his contribution:the change of the sources of scripture and the article's structure,the purify of theory and concept,the command of all concentration and contemplation by the way of the Four Process of Mind and the perspicuity of the stages of concentration and contemplation.In the fourth part,this dissertation explains ZhiYi's creative development of Prajna of contemplative illumination in the book of grandeur concentration and contemplation and discuses its core parts:the background and theory bases of "observation on the evil",ZhiYi's profound awareness of evil,the concrete way of "observation on the evil" and the discreet attitude toward "observation on the evil". This topic involves more problems and had been excellently explained by ZhiYi.