The Academic Construction Of The Living Buddhism

As one of three great religions in the world, Buddhism has already happened and developed in different nations for more than 2, 000 years. Its great doctrines and deep ideas drew on people to study it from each aspects broadly. Along with the development of society and the change of social background, Buddhism also modified and changed itself continuously, the living Buddhism is the new stage of Buddhist development when the traditional Buddhism developed with the times in the social development progress.As a kind of idea or slogan, the living Buddhism was put forward at the beginning of the 20th century, from which has been greater half a century. People comprehended and investigated the meaning and worth of the living Buddhism from each aspects, which enriched and extended the understanding of the living Buddhism. Why did the living Buddhism add the word of "humanism"? what's the real connotation of the living Buddhism? There are many different opinions nowadays.Taking a comprehensive view of the research to the living Buddhism, its result deserves to affirm. But it can't be denied that there are still have many wrong understanding which influenced academic objectivity and fairness seriously, distorted the academic history. Therefore, it is necessary to make a discreet demonstration on the living BuddhismCurrently, the research of the living Buddhism concentrates on the macroscopical comprehension, not the macrocosmic at all. Many things are negelected, such as Tai Xu, Ying Shun and the karma between Zhao Puchu and Buddhism. All of these things have no systematic description in many articles concerning the living Buddhism, perhaps those writer think it unimportant. On the opposition, in fact, these things are very important to comprehend the idea of one person. How pity it is!The article take "the the academic construction of the living Buddhism" as the title, is divided into five chapters.Chapter One: Connotation of the living Buddhism and the researching situation of its theoryThis chapter takes several comprehensions of the living Buddhism into description first, and put forward personal understanding of the living Buddhism on the foundation of contrasting. Dividing three parts to demonstrate the searching situation of the living Buddhism, first part in mainland, second part in HongKong, TaiWan and Macao. the last part in foreign countries.Chapter Two: Background of the living Buddhism was put forward.In the chapter, demonstrating the happening background of the living Buddhism first, which contents involves two aspects. The first part discusses its ex- external factor from the local and the foreign. Pointing out outside influence, such as of Christianity, of Japanese monks, of the construction of the temple and the education. all of which force traditional Buddhism to carry on reform for adapting to the huge social changes. The second part mainly begins from the inside aspect of Buddhism, analyses its own existed problems, points out the outside reason surely important to the latter-day downfall, but the inner problems of Buddhism more important.Chapter Three: The processing course of the theory of the living Buddhism.This chapter takes three personal things as the theorical hint to carry on searching with the sequence of Tai Xu, Yin Shun and Zhao Puchu. In the processing, noticing the mutual inheritance among their theories, comparing particular emphasis in their theories.Chapter Four: The main contents of the living Buddhism and its thought origin.The substance of the living Buddhism is a social Buddhism, which can't leave the living, the reality and the freedom and satisfactory of one person. The main contents of the living Buddhism is "five quit", "ten kind", "four shoot", "six degrees", which are carried on more explaination tin this chapter.For the academic origin, the chapter thinks the living Buddhism as the special outcome of Chinese Buddhism. Its emergence can't disjoint mutual connection with traditional Buddhism and the Chinese culture of several thousand years. This chapter discusses that the living Buddhism, from two large aspects of the traditional Buddhism and Confucianism, is not personal and irrelevant creation, but the sacred mission of the monk and the known in that times.Chapter Five: research meaning of the living Buddhism was put forward.discussing the research meaning of the living Buddhism simply. Pointing out that this research not only have aggressive meaning to the theories oneself of the living Buddhism, but also promote the construction of setting up a harmonious society of our country in the meantime. Also carried on in the future development of our country to the live Buddhism in the meantime initial of the prospect conceive.