Muzhai And Buddhism

Qian Qianyi was a famous schoular in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, made significant achievements in the field as Literature, Historiography, and Buddhism. As the literary chief and Donglin Party leader, his literature works poetic criticism and academic ideas have produced important influence. He grew up in a highly adored Buddism traditional family as Yushan Qianshi.In the strong impact in Buddha environmental, little since it has the indissoluble bound with Buddhism. After the fall of Ming, because of the surrender, popular people criticized. As the self regret, Buddhism played an important role in the change of state of mind. Reversion of Ming Dynasty and against the Qing Dynasty at the same time, the Buddhism faith was very evident. He has very closly contacts with the Late Ming and Early Qing Buddhist monks. Qian Qianyi was very knowledgeable, versed in Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, integrate Confucianism and Buddhism in terms of ideology, propose the viewpoint as Zhongxiao and Buddha-nature(忠孝佛性论),stressed Buddhism political functions. He has its own evaluation of the various sects of the Buddhist. Responding to the feelings of the teachers, taking up the responsibility of the recovery of Buddhism, practice the reform view of Fanjing Ming jiao(反经明教), he annotation Buddhist sutra as Shurangama sutra and Prajnaparamita-hrdaya-sutra, collate his teacher’s corpus as Hanshan Deqing and Zibo Zhenke,participate in the pression of Jiaxing Zang(嘉兴藏).While in active participation in Buddhist affairs, his literary creation and literary criticism was also deeply influenced by the Buddhist. A manifestation in the poetry, his reflections of individual lives and laments of Dharmas impermanence, was showing strong emotions of Buddhism. On the occasion of Ming and Qing regime change, his used the theory of kalpa, build a Buddhist world in his poetry, with its realistic meaning. Borrowed a large number of Buddhist allusions, as well as the Buddhist perception, cast into hie poetry, constitutes a unique mood. He wrote a large number of Buddhist articles as Taming(塔铭),Muyuanshu(募缘疏); in the learning experiences and writing style changing, Buddhist directly or indirectly play a different degree of impact. In poetry criticism, based on the spiritual heart, supplemented as the vasana or Liugen Huyong(六 根�'用),building his theoretical system. In the case of the monk poetry flourished, he borrow the Shusun(蔬筍说) to evaluate, the monk poetry. In the Ming Dynasty, Changlangshihua(沧浪诗话)was very popular, he from two aspects as Shifa(诗法)and Wujing(悟境),given the critical summarize. In literary criticism, he borrows a lot of Buddhist metaphor, euphemistic to express their point of view.