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Eduacational Thought And Practice About Buddhist Precept, Concentration And Wisdom

Posted on:2012-04-18Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:D F RuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115330335967591Subject:Principles of Education
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In the sixth century B.C. the Sakyamuni Buddha became enlightment and he lived forty-nine years with the great metta and compassion. He felt the doctrine of consciousness and awakening others and his teachings about Dharma is indeed very rich. Afterwards all his teachings were collected into the Buddhist scriptures that are called Sutra-pitaka, Vinaya-pitaka and Abhidharma-pitaka (Shastra). It is thought that the Buddhism encompassed three areas of precept, concentration and wisdom which is interprets in Tripitaka. In other words, all the teachings of the Buddha has been contained within these three areas nothing else. In fact, the Buddha Dharma is immeasurable like the huge sea and the Buddhism is either directly or indirectly related to the precept, concentration and wisdom which are actually regarded that of the foundation of Buddhist education. After the Buddhism was brought to China and it has been spread and developed for longtime by creating identical feature of Chinese Buddhism. For example, the three forms of precept, concentration and wisdom which is developed by forming three schools that are Luzong school for the precept, Zen school for the concentration and Tiantaizong school for wisdom of the Huayanzong sect. This article only focuses the sprit, idea and practice of precept, concentration and wisdom education rather than origin and evolution of Luzong, Zen and Tiantaizong. But it is involved to study the source of precept, concentration and wisdom education in this research. Therefore, the writer has focused towards four parts in this research, the first part is the discrimination of origin, development and content of precept, concentration and wisdom education, The second part is inquiring of thoughts and characteristics of precept, concentration and wisdom education and the third part is analysis of mode, principles and practice of precept, concentration and wisdom education. Finally it needs to inspire the Buddhist education that based on precept, concentration and wisdom in the world of the contemporary education.From the perspective of the precept, concentration and wisdom education is a kind of consciousness education. The precept, concentration and wisdom education is able to train people to be consciousness throughout the process. Through the teachings of the Buddha can make people educated and perfect and can overcome defilements, make trouble free and turn ignorance into wisdom. The Buddhism is teaching that the ignorance is the cause of distress, suffering and trouble in life. The so-called ignorance is that of absence of awareness of the social situation, reality of life and the real meaning of the universe. Only because possessing the consciousness one can break puzzle and understand the reality and relief from from life's troubles. Because of this the enlightment of the Buddha is the consciousness of education. It is obvious that education is where ever or when ever to serve the community to make excellent the life. However, if education doesn't concern keep people awakening of nature, then it would need to make influence to orientate the quality of education. Writer believe that the awakening of precept, concentration and wisdom of education is a duty of current educational research, and it would be a valuable reference to educational practice as well.From the educational view of practice of precept, concentration and wisdom is believing that the understanding of true meaning of the Buddhism. The Buddhist teaching promotes the theory should be with practice. In general, it is need to promote the Buddhist knowledge to form the Buddhist education in the correct view. Precept, concentration and wisdom education is the most important Buddhist education project. There included the educational contents and methods also. It is not only for Buddhist monks and nuns but for the general people to overcome their problems also. The most important matter is education should help to social groups and the precept, concentration and wisdom education is the issue to play a effective role in the field of education. Therefore to develop precept, concentration and wisdom education is to enhance the quality education. It is need to implement the core ideas of the precept, concentration and wisdom of Buddhist education as the guidance of "consciousness of awareness", "self interest of altruism" and it regards that "self interest to altruism" is a fundamen.al core value of effective and quality education.The awakening of the Buddhist precept, concentration and wisdom is caused to establish the Buddhist dweller in the world. From the point of Buddhist monk, in the early stages many monks and many people had not opportunities to practice and this is time to remove bias easily. From the starting the basic education, one should think and rely on precept, concentrate and wisdom to apply to the life itself. In this way monk can hold a sound personality and without losing it in the changing world. Considering the long term refuge in the world, the Buddha recommended to his dispels to curb body, mouth and mind activities. If you can do accordance with precept of the Buddha Dharma you would make long term refuge for the sake of the glorious future. It is important to practice precept, concentration and wisdom to eliminate the roots of trouble to have inner balance in the life.Precept, concentration and wisdom education tells us to form a harmonious, simple and moral society and also it promotes people to find and adapt one's personality himself. In the process of studying, people will grow and mature gradually, promote individual expressions and remove the individual factors of instability, Finally achieve the social harmony and development.
Keywords/Search Tags:Buddhist education, precept,concentration and wisdom, precept,concentration and wisdom education, awareness education
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