Education And Literature Of The Tang Dynasty Temple

This essay is one proportion of "the relationship between education and literature of Tang-dynasty" .The prosperity of literature in Tang-dynasty has very tight connection with the development of education. The education of Tang-dynasty includes approximately governmental-schools and personal-schools, governmental-schools were declining from Emperor Gao, even many steps were implemented to rebound them, there were little success. At the same time, the personal-schools were developing quickly. No matter educational contents or forms, temple-education was the most unique in personal-schools. Basically, the people in temple learned something by themselves. They also had the same goals with other literati, that is, to pass the imperial-examinations, but they had much edification. The temple were a great "window" of Tang' s culture, no matter literature or art, so they supplied much nourishment to these people. Temple-education not only was the particular sight but also the important cause of the literature in Tang-dynasty. This essay is going to study the phenomenon.The 1st part of this essay try to discuss "the decadency-causes ofgovernmental-schools" . The author thinks the causes are "the conflict between jinshi-course and the imperial-examinations" , "embarrassed teacher of governmental-schools" , "the corruption of study" and "the economical jam of governmental-schools". In "jinshi-cause" , the author analyses why Tang-people didn' t reform the jinshi and suggests jinshi' s teaching-methods. At the same time, the chongwen-hongwen schools could act up very well, the assay suggests the cause is they have high status. In contrast, the temple has great superiority, so the 2nd part is "reviewing the temple-environment of Tang-dynasty" . The innovations are the new suggestion of "three absolutions" and the analysis of why Tang-people loved performance in temple. The 3rd is "the relationship between temple-education and literature" . The innovations are: the learning-methods of the literati in temple; the identities of the literati in temple; the different forms of writing-poems in temple and their influences; the sutra and their influence; how the Buddhism influences the tomb-form of Tang-people and their relationship ti$h novels of Tang.