The Study Of Fa Zang's Inter-owning And Inter-depending-on "Li"

Ganda School was founded in fact by Fa Zang. All what he had done lay in this"Li". This"Li"is not of its own nature-abiding and reveals itself at random. Everything must depend on this"Li". Therefore"Li"needs things and things rely on"Li". So does everything. What is called the realm of Buddhist, which includes profound philosophic theory. Non-contradictory"Li"protrudes advanced philosophy in the East.The essence of non-contradictory"Li"is causation and nature .What Fa Zang explained is the reason of non-contradictory owing to causation .It is due to causation ,all in all. What is so-called non-contradictory"Li"has two parts of form and content. As for form, it refers to Fa Zang's philosophy including his metaphysical ontology. With regard to content, it means the general Buddhist causation including Fajie causation and tathāgata- garbha causation.1. Dharmadhātu causation Which embodies these categories concerning six aspects of cause, ten items of causation, idealism, six faces, ten kinds of profound theory, receded improper thought, collecting oneself, and so on. But ten kinds of profound theory summarize the gist of dharmadhātu causation.2.Tathāgata- garbha causation Everything in the world or in Heavean is decided by Tathāgata- garbha and everyone is Tathāgata- garbha.Tathāgata- garbha causation and dharmadhātu causation differ in several ways. Zong Mi pointed out the difference between the two that the one doing with living things is called Tathāgata- garbha but doing with non-living things is called dharmadhātu. Or dharmadhātu means living things and non-living things mix together but Tathāgata- garbha designate the peace and quiet mind of Buddhist.Compared with Fajie causation and Tathāgata- garbha, nature is named non–manifestation. The previous is related to contaminated and pure state. But the latter only concerns pure state. At the same time nature also echoes the approaches to the essence of Zhi Yi for convenience. Nature in another word, indicates that ontology is function but usually vice verse. Or to be indistinct is an ordinary person and to be distinct is a sage.One viewpoint must be clarified, specially about nature having good and evil which Zhi Yi and Fa Zang agreed with each other. Fa Zang's nature doesn't contradict his nature having good and evil. As regards one mind access respectively to pure and impure realm, Fa Zang said,"the peace and quiet mind of Buddhist is not contaminated but contaminated and it's intangible. It's contaminated but not contaminated and it's also hard to trace. The interpretation is that not contaminated but contaminated indicates impure realm and contaminated but not contaminated pure realm. That is to say, pure entity reveals itself mundane and impure things are true essence."(in Seeking Out Secrets :volume 13) Contaminated but not contaminated corresponds to originated but not originated in nature.( The word'originated'in nature has no meaning and it only makes up words.) As a matter of fact, nature comes from pure realm and dharmadhātu causation besides Tathāgata- garbha causation stems from impure realm, which means nature is pure vacancy. and dharmadhātu causation and Tathāgata- garbha causation belong to impure vacancy. The good and the bad in this world depend on dharmadhātu causation and Tathāgata- garbha causation, which designates that good and evil rely directly on dharmadhātu causation and Tathāgata- garbha causation. Meanwhile, dharmadhātu causation and Tathāgata- garbha causation emerge directly from Nature which is root cause but not direct one for good and evil.Fa Zang's non-contradictory"Li"has deep influence inside and outside Buddhist, especially over"Li Xue"of Cheng Hao,Cheng Yi and Zhu Xi in Song Dynasty. Cheng Zhu's"Tian Li"has been effected by Daoism and Zhou Yi, but even by non-contradictory"Li". Dao ,Taiji of Daoism and Zhou Yi seem only to be simple and intuitive while non-contradictory"Li"is complicated and dialectical. There were traces of non-contradictory"Li"in many concrete terms of Cheng Zhu's"Tian Li", namely, motion and motionless, Hai-Yin-San-Mei and Wan-Xiang-Sen-Ran, expand and contract, secret, mirror, thing-in-itself and its function, one-being-everything and one-"Li"-with-many-things. To some extent, Cheng Zhu's"Tian Li"is no more than the copy of non-contradictory"Li".The relation between Buddhism and Confucianism summed up by a scholar is,"an unoccupied mind with intelligence from On Great Wisdom, being innumerable from Hua Yan Sutra, the nature of non-living and living things, intrinsic attributes, thing-in-itself and its function of mind and the heart of universe deriving from human beings, which all arise from Buddhist sutra."(Notes in Zhi Garden ,Annotated Works of Zhu Xi,Original Book ,Written by Lu Yunjin)Fa Zang is a monk of high moral character and a great philosopher. His reputation has been spread overseas since then. His theory was once social ideology in Tang Dynasty. So was it in Korea and Japan.