Research On Fang Dongmei's Huayan Thought

Both religious thoughts of Hua Yan Jing and philosophical thoughts of Hua Yan School have explicitly directed the forming of Thome H.Fang's culture philosophy.Standing for Chinese ethnic culture,comparing Chinese and western culture,Fang interpreted the thoughts of Hua Yan Jing and philosophical thoughts of Hua Yan School.He claimed that the core of Chinese traditional culture in terms of the cultural comparison and reinterpretation between the west and the east is to set metaphysical grounds for value,morality and truth deriving the experiences;to provide the logical enunciation of the development of personality,deepening spirit and moral liberty;to lead to the full display of the life's natural characters,the limited value's fulfillment and the spiritual pursuit's perpetual accomplishment.Thome H.Fang viewed Yi Zhen Fa Jie as the concrete expression of Chinese cultural spirit in case of characterized as the complex of secularity and transcendence,equality and reality,consummation and dimension.So with the Chinese culture's spiritual particularity,such as the unity of human and nature,heterogeneous association of subjectivity and objectivity,perfect kindness of human nature,self-discipline of morality,evolution of the living etc,it has reached to the essence of the Buddhism and successfully overcome the defect of the western thinking mode in a way of unifying religion and philosophy,imbuing reason with poetic wisdom.At the same time,it well expresses the sprite of Chinese culture that unity of man and nature,kindness of the humanity,autonomy of the ethics,alteration of the life view,progress of accumulation.Dating back to the Hua Yan Jing,Thome H.Fang proclaimed Hua Yan School which was symbolized by the outlook of Fa Jie and pivoted on the kernel of Fa Jie Yuan Qi has afforded thinking resources and feasible methods with interwoven inherence logic and accurate category system for philosophizing and theorizing Chinese traditional thought.Then referring to the western academic paradigm,Chinese traditional culture has absorbed the theoretical form of modern academy and spontaneously demonstrated the Chinese culture's theoretical harmony paralleling with the inner dilemma of dualism in western culture by the contrast of between intrinsic ontology and extrinsic ontology.As we have seen that cultural plurality and diversification is vital and immeasurable.Thome H.Fang emphasized the pattern of the culture in the future should follow the principle of autogenetic assimilation;take up a justifiable attitudes toward the eclecticism,reference,appreciation and summarization;achieve the reestablishment of culture in a philosophical thinking,as a result of making a strong support for the world to be a paradise,the individuality to be specificity and the humanity to be naturalness.