Compare Between The Thought Of Imperishable Spirit Of Jin And Song Dynasty And Thought Of Samsara Of Indian Buddhism

The Chinese thought of Imperishable Spirit has existed for a long time. And the problem of Spirit and Body is also one of the problems which are necessary for Chinese scholars to discuss and pay attention to. The Introduction of the thought of samsara from Indian Buddhism provides new significance for the studying about Spirit and Body. The theory of samsara introjected with Chinese traditional thought of Imperishable Spirit and Good and Evil, and bing extensive influcence when it was first introduced into China. But it was still a nub whether the Spirit really exisit. Because of this,the Chinese troditional problem of Spirit and Body turns into the discussion between Perishable Spirit and Imperishable Spirit. This article is trying to compare Chinese thought of Imperishable Spirit from Jin Dynasty to Song Dynasty with Indian Buddhist thought of samsara, and to tell the differences and relations between the two. The principal part (behave as soul) of samsara has been an illegibility since the thought of samsara was introduced into Buddhism by Buddha. The thought of samsara was emerged long before. It was not untill the period of upanishad that the thought became systemtical theory. According to the upanishad, the situation of rebirth is good or bad lies on the good or evil of one's behavior. And the good here is to obey the rules of Brahman and to take on the duty of one's caste. The Indian buddhism standed aginst the Brahman, it absorbed Brahman's thought of samsara, and at the same time establshed new theory to against the Brahman's teaching. Buddhism denied the Imperishable Spirit. According to the Buddhist teaching, if one affirm that there is a real self , he will over-absorption of mind and can not jump over the samsara. But if there is no self, who recycles in the samsara?So this a conflict of Buddhist theory. To solve this conflict,the sectarian of DuZi posted Pudgala.Pudgala is a phony self, it is the principal part (behave as soul) of samsara. The opinion of Pudgala was the production of the conflict. Yoga, the major school of Buddhism, posted a^laya. It regarded a^laya as the seed and dependent origination of the world. So a^laya has the meaning of soul, but according to Yoga, it belongs to phemomenon, is not the principal part (behave as soul) of samsara. When the Bbuddhist theory of the samsara came into China, it aroused a discussion between Perishable Spirit and Imperishable Spirit. We now review the thought ofImperishable Spirit of the discussion from Jin Dynasty to Song Dynasty, to compare Chinese thought of Imperishable Spirit with Indian Buddhist thought of samsara. Here this article mainly pay attentiong to the following thougts: Imperishable Spirit And Perishable Body by HuiYuan, To Catch On The Buddhism by ZongBing, and Imperishable Spirit by ZhengXianZhi. HuiYuan first posted three notes about what his opponent said in his Imperishable Spirit And Perishable Body. And then anwsered particularly. The first, he introduced what is Spirit; the second, he made a completely different explanation about the opinions of some sutres; the third, HuiYuan thought that the imagery of Firewood and Fire is not a proof of Perishable Spirit ,but Imperishable Spirit; lastly, HuiYuan used the imagery of father and son to prove spirit and body were not from the same origination, not live and die together. His thought represented the highest level of the Buddhism of that time,untill To Catch On The Buddhism pushed the thought of Imperishable Spirit And Perishable Body to the top. After To Catch On The Buddhism by ZongBing, ZhengXianZhi wrote Imperishable Spirit. He inherited the thought of HuiYuan and ongBing, and at the same time posted some new opinions of his own. In ancient China, as to the problem of spirit of body,the side stick to Imperishable Spirit owned the superiority. On the base of all above, let's take a comparation between the thought of Imperishable Spirit from Jin Dynasty to Song Dynasty and Indian Buddhist thought of samsara. firstly, from the poit of history situation. The opponent of Indian Buddhism is Brahman, in order to against Brahman's teaching, Indian Buddhism must stick on No Self. While opponent of the thought of Imperishable Spirit is the side against the Indian Buddhist theory of samsara. So the side of Imperishable Spirit must stick on the exsist of self. Second, from the poit of troditional culture. The spirit in China has the same meaning of soul.while pudgala and a^laya are phony self of metaphysics. And, at the end of this article, the significance of Imperishable Spirit And Perishable Body by HuiYuan is mattered. The thought of Imperishable Spirit And Perishable Body is different from either Chinese Imperishable Spirit or Indian Buddhist samsara, it has an inimitable congruity. It introjected Buddhism ,Taoism andConfucianism, reduced the resistance to Buddhism, and improved the development of Buddhism.