The Study Of Sangha Education Of The Tang Dynasty

With the completion of the sinicization of Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty,Sangha education established the system of Chinese buddhist education and widely influenced the traditional Chinese education from the aspects of education system, ways and methods and a series of comprehensive, the sangha education is the most unique one of the Tang Dynasty education in all types of education. Because of its religious, the sangha is different from other traditional education both in contents and form.Monks ’ aim is to improve their Buddhism literacy in the field of Buddhism by studying in the temple or travelling to exotic places.This is not only a great landscape formed in the history of Chinese ancient education,but also it has profound influenced widely the development and expansion of Buddhism in the tang dynasty. “ Monk Biography of the Tang Dynasty” and “ Monk Biography of the Song Dynasty” are the classical collection of monk biography. The content involves a lot about life story, education, growth of the monk in tang dynasty.This undoubtedly becomes one of the best material that studying the sangha education of this paper.The generation of the Chinese sangha education and the traditional Chinese Confucianism education are linked closely, it depend on Chinese traditional Confucianists education and Taoist education education.Can be seen from “ Monk Biography of the Tang Dynasty” and “ Monk Biography of the Song Dynasty”,The monk of the Tang Dynasty also learn Confucianism culture,Taoist culture and so on.The two books were recorded in99 sangha of the Tang Dynasty that learning Confucianism culture.They are broad and profound, and some are also expert in art, natural science. This is the basis of learning Buddhism from the relationship of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. This supply guarantees of buddhism translation and writting the buddhist scriptures,and has a significant influence on the development of sangha education in the Tang Dynasty.The Tang Dynasty is the critical period of the development of the Sangha education.“ Monk Biography of the Tang Dynasty” and “ Monk Biography of the Song Dynasty”show the sangha’s learning type.Due to the political environment and the cultural mentality of the tang dynasty, Seclusion practice was advocated by the monk, and becomed the more popular a kind of learning style.Private teaching is a kind of traditional education that inheritting Wei Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties,and the Tang Dynasty developedand formed its own style and features, and gain popularity.Monasteries education is the most important in the sangha education a type of education,It is founded with the Zen Buddhist temple system,It shows the implement of zen specifications, and plays an important role in completing the education plan and conduct religious activities.Sangha education is a kind of traditional religious culture activities, the sangha of“ Monk Biography of the Tang Dynasty” and “ Monk Biography of the Song Dynasty”has broke the traditional sangha education activities,they accumulated rich experience in teaching, the education methods and means are diverse, It is mainly the guide, the lead by example,the individualized and setting the difficult, this kind of teaching method not only improves the teaching quality, but also injectes new vitality for the conventional sangha education. In addition, the sangha education of the Tang Dynasty formed multiple characteristics in the process of development,such as the abundance of the content, forms of diversity and universality of objects,It inherited the merits of the traditional education, and had its own creativity.At the same time, the various kinds of education activity and the shape of the sangha education not only promoted the development of the Buddhism, also had an extensive and profound affect on the society.In conclusion,it points out that the Tang Dynasty is the important period of the history of Chinese sangha education,It not only established Chinese Buddhism education system in terms of education type, method and characteristics, but also became an essential part of the Chinese traditional education,It has been proved by history that absorbing and effecting Confucianism culture. Studying Tang sangha education, which can know more profoundly buddhist culture’s whole development process in the Tang Dynasty, and also understand the sangha education system of the Tang Dynasty,and at the same time it can give some references to the education in the nowadays.