The Enlightenment Of Zen Aesthetics To Landscape Design Of Chinese Buddhist Scenic Spots

From the 1990 s to the present,under the background of creating cultural thematic scenic spots and promoting Chinese traditional cultures,the development of tourist attractions with Buddhist culture as the main content has become a popular one.However,the relevant interests of Buddhist cultural tourism scenic spots in China are think of this special cultural resource as an important means of creating local cultural tourism brands and make money.On the one hand,they are carrying the banner of developing the traditional Chinese Buddhism cultures and publicize the spirit of Buddhism.while on the other hand,they are doing the design of “Not in compliance with the Buddhism arts”.In order to cope with the fierce competition between scenic spots of the same contents and to satisfy the tourists’ pursuits of new curiosity,some scenic spots even have invested huge sums of money to build enormous open-air Buddha statues,extravagant interiors and erratic landscape facilities to attract tourists and religious believers.These ways not only destroy the historical values of original Buddhist cultural heritages,Buddhist doctrines,national religious regulations,but also can not meet the needs for creating contemporary Buddhist scenic spots.Faced with this trend of not in compliance with the Buddhist art designs,governments had set s series of regulations to cope with these problems in past 10 years.however,the results are not satisfactory.Why?these problems can not be solved,because various stakeholders who have huge interest in Buddhist scenic spots have differences needs.As a design researcher and a landscape design practitioner in Buddhism,this paper takes the landscape design of Chinese Buddhism scenic spot as the research object,and Zen’ aesthetic as an argument.According to the actual demands of various stakeholders,we can make excellent designs that compliance with Buddhist arts if we learn Zen’s aesthetic.The first chapter is historical research.It proposes the necessity of this research from the perspective of the macro-background of social culture and the understanding and cognition of the development history of Zen aesthetics,analyzing the characteristics of the Zen’s aesthetics.The second chapter is description of the development and evolution of historical Buddhist architectures,analyzing the relationship between Zen’s aesthetics and Chinese traditional Buddhist architectures.The third chapter is the strategy research,which goes into the in-depth analysis of the development status,design problems and reasons of the Buddhist scenic spots,and explores the use of Zen aesthetics to satisfy the interests of all parties in the scenic spot,and provides the scenic space design pattern and strategy of “Zen aesthetics” and combined with some cases to prove.The fourth chapter is theoretical practice.Through the understanding of the art characteristics of Zen aesthetics,combined with the author’s landscape design practices in Xi Xia Temple and Fa Men Temple to support my points.Finally,the paper concludes that the Buddhist scenic spot is the place of religious activities of the believers,and is also a learning cultural scenic spot for tourists to visit,experience Buddhist cultures and Buddhist spirit.And its true charms lies in experiencing the function of Buddhism to help people reliving pressure and purifying the soul.As we known this is very similar to Zen’ aesthetics.