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Thai Civilization On The Pattra-leaf

Posted on:2007-08-30Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z Q WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360185994305Subject:Religious Studies
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Buddhism is a complicated system of belief, and it covers the realm of social ethics, philosophy of life. It is famous for its wisdom. Buddhism advocates that people should be wise, value the life, be merciful, and be helpful for others. Buddhism tries it's best to develop people's utmost wisdom, and to cast all bad elements. Thus need all people to be kind, merciful, and helpful.The development of the society is related to people's living conditions, social regime, and people's ideas and thoughts. Now, the modernization brings many problems to people, and even threatens human's survival. The non-belief crisis, moral degeneration, sin ratio rising, all these problems should be take care of. Luckily, Buddhism can contribute to solve all the problems, and can make the society harmonious.Professor Fang Litian said that China should be called the second hometown of Buddhism, because it has the most abundant sutras of Buddhism, and has a complete system of all Buddhist schools.When Buddhism began to spread to China, it tried to suit the traditional Chinese culture. On one hand, many Buddhist masters selected plenty of sutras for Chinese people, and made out the best way for Chinese Buddhist to cultivate themselves. On the other hand, it fused into Chinese traditional culture, and fused...
Keywords/Search Tags:Yunnan Province, Dehong region, Thai ethnic, the Hinayana Buddhism, the Pattra-leaf, civilization
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