The "Image" And "Religion" Of Chinese Buddhism:based On Meditation

Since Buddhism was introduced to China, it has accomplished the collision and fusionwith Confucianism, Taoism and other traditional Chinese cultures in the process ofrooting and growing, formed a Chinese Buddhism which is very different from thetaste of Indian Buddhism. Incoming Chinese Buddhism was referred to as "Religionof Image", to a large extent, it is based on the context and meaning of the Buddhistsystem. It expresses the religious doctrine and practices the unique religiousawareness by its images (including Buddhist statues, patterns, murals, etc.).Meanwhile, the Buddhist images which are based on Buddhist doctrine andmeditation act as the core of the Chinese traditional Buddhist architecture haveinfluenced on internal space arrangement, visual, scale, as well as the groupsconfiguration. For a long time, however, the research on this area has not beendeveloped further by the academia and the class of designers, so there are lots ofblank in this field．As an architectural researcher and design practitioner with many years’ practicaldesign and continuing consideration, the author divided the thesis into two parts,historical induction and practical deduction, to explain the religious form of imagecontext which has the largest impact to Chinese cultural and ideological. Used by artto show its ideographic and cultural function as well as based on it to explore thecommonness between "Buddhism"(thought, concept and practice way) and "image"(artistic image) and contemporary design, in order to find the inspiration and directionof contemporary Buddhist space together with diagram system design.The first half takes the interaction of “Image-Religion” as the main research object,takes the Buddhist practice--meditation and its classic which correlate to "Image" and"Buddhism" as basement, takes a spatial procession of "image--corespace--intermediate space—outer space" as research model, philological research andanalytic diagram (including intermediate space: evolution diagram of grottoes space;outer space: evolution diagram of Buddhist temple; image-spatial system analysis;spatial-sightline analysis) as core method. Summarized the history and inductedresearch of the Buddhism localization process. In order to discover the origin thoughtof Buddhism diagram and spatial design, like the context and laws of image pattern,composition form, vision law, scale dimension, experience sequence and aestheticcharacteristics etc.. The second half comprehensive uses the research conclusion ofthe first half, combined the author’s design and teaching practice, demonstrates thedesign ideas and ways of combination of “image” and “Religion” in contemporaryBuddhist space (architecture and landscape).