A Study On Chronological Buddhist Historical Books In Yuan Dynasty

The chronicle Buddhist historical books in Yuan Dynasty are an important part of Buddhist literature.Buddhist historical books are a type of Buddhist books used to describe the spread and development of Buddhism.The Buddhist historical books usually appear in the form of general history.Their content is not only focuses on the history of Buddhism,but also recarded the Secular history related to Buddhism in the past dynasties.Yuan Dynasty was a minority regime,and there was no unified writing for a long time after it come to the central Plains.In addition,its rule time was relatively short,compared with the Tang and Song Dynasty,there were fewer documents left,and few scholars paid attention to it,so was Buddhism.Studying the chronicle Buddhism historical books in Yuan Dynasty can enrich the content of Chinese Buddhism history,Chinese philology,and Chinese traditional culture,and it is of great value.The first part is the development of chronicle Buddhist historical books in Yuan Dynasty.Mongolia’s upper rulers adopted a tolerant religious policy for the sake of belief and the consolidation of power,especially the respect for Han Buddhism.Although the emperors of Yuan Dynasty believed in Tibetan Buddhism,as a minority political power,In order to stabilize the foundation of the rule,the Han Buddhism was attrached great importance to,which had a close relationship with the politics of the Yuan Dynasty and quickly recovered a considerable scale from the low point of the war at the end of the Song Dynasty.During this period,although the Zen power in the Buddhist sect was flourishing,it was in decline.The Zen monks tried to save the situation by compiling Buddhist historical books,and the general chronicle history could better show sets and order of ages,and promoted the compilation of chronicle Buddhist historical books in Yuan Dynasty.The second part is the introduction of the chronicle Buddhist historical books in Yuan Dynasty.This paper makes a simple discussion on the author,reason of writing,content and edition of Li Chao Shi Shi Zi Jian,A Historical Documentation of Buddha and Shi Shi Ji Gu Lue.The third part is the analysis of the influences of the genres of Buddhism historical books in Yuan Dynasty on the writings of later books.Chronicles gradually disappeared from the perspective of historians after the emergence of biography.The publication of Zi Zhi Tong Jian and the exposure of biography’s disadvantages made chronicle get more the attention.This genre was applied to the compilation of chronicle Buddhist historical books in Yuan Dynasty.In terms of style,"the years used the combining the branches and titles of the regimes",in terms of content,"committed to the ancient and modern,while recording the history of Buddhism and secular history",in the historical theory,"combination of historical facts and commentary",etc.,in these aspects affects the compilation of later Buddhism historical books.The fourth part explores the value and historical status of chronicle Buddhist historical books in Yuan Dynasty.These three Buddhist histor Ical books were recorded by the people at that time and kept important Buddhist and secular materials from the Jin and Yuan Dynasties.They are of great value in literature and historiography.Because there have been scholars’ research on Song Dynasty and before Song Dynasty,this chapter focuses on the value of chronicle Buddhist historical books in Yuan Dynasty in Jin and Yuan.Finally,chronicle Buddhist historical books in Yuan Dynasty are an important part of Chinese Buddhist historical books and Chinese historical philology,which plays an important role in the study of Chinese Buddhist history,Chinese Buddhist historical books,and traditional Chinese culture.