The Study About The Poems Of The Theme About The Buddhism Temples In The Tang Dynasty

Buddhism reaches its height of power and splendor in Tang dynasty. At that time, Buddhism becomes complete Chinese. The Chinese Buddhism itself becomes a part of Chinese traditional culture. Buddhist temple is the mark of the development of the Buddhism. As the Buddhist construction entity, it is one sort of the tool of culture, at the same time; it is also the carrier of the Buddha culture. When the large number of Buddhist temples spring up, which as the spread and develop the Buddhist culture, it influences the severalty social class. Buddhist temples is not only the place which the monks, nuns and many-headed prostrated and worshiped, but also the old literators expressed their hearts. The Tang Poets left a lot of works concerning about the Buddhist temple. The research bases on the Buddhist temple, from the point of view of analyzing Tang poems, to reflect the culture connotation that it bears, to introduce the Buddhist developing status , to research the poets'attitude towards the Buddhism, esteem or opponent, to represent the temples'various sociocultural functions. It reduce the poets'poetic creating visage at the subject of Buddhist templeThis thesis is divided into five parts.The first part: The introduction part, it discusses the predecessor research status, the gist and investigative value of the selected topics. In the former writings, it only concern about the poets in Tang dynasty, but little about the verses on the subject of Buddhist temple. There are a lot of verses about Buddhist temple in Tang dynasty; it occupies one-fifth in Tang Verses. From the view of Tang verses, according to the whole texts, it will explain them carefully and comprehensively and entirely induct the Buddhist temple subjective poetic content and style.The second part: it introduces the developed status of Buddhist in Tang dynasty. The policy is liberal, active and establishes the foundation for its boom. The most representative aspect is Tang royalists receive the Buddha bone respectful and put the ruler into the high point. Except for the"Wu Zong went out Buddha", the rulers vigorously prop up Buddhism. With the development of eight large primary Buddhism, Tang dynasty come into its flourishing period. Buddhist temple is the developmental sign of Buddhism. At the end of Kai Yuan time, the Buddhism temple had been mount up into 5358 stations all over the country. The names of the Buddhist temples bear the profound Chinese traditional culture intension, and the names also attribute the indigenization of the Buddhism and Buddhist temple.The third part: it discusses the poets'attitudes towards the Buddhism. There are two kinds of attitudes among the poets: Esteem and Oppose. The poets have deep influences on Buddhism, the absorbing culture has intimate relation between Buddhism. They mostly esteem Buddha. To learn Buddha has become a social vogue and they put Buddhism affection as their own life bailment. They pursue the ambit of Forget and Nonego from the religion emotion, get rid of the chill and suffering in lives, enjoy vacancy, compose and freedom which Buddhism takes. The'toll"imago from the poems, which depicts the vacant rhyme creating the poets'communication with the Zen and the epiphany himself. The bookmen in Tang dynasty are fond of intercourse with verse bonze, the bonze and vulgar exchange into the Buddhism verses or sanctuary poetical works, which take quite percentage in Tang verses. The situation which the bookmen admire the bonzes are influenced in the poetical creation. Because the changing of the political situation and the fast development of the Buddhist temples'economics and quantities, from the poems, we also found the phenomena of opposing Buddhism.The fourth part: It mainly discusses the function of temples'socioculture.It expounds the geographic position and landscape culture of Buddhist temple. The environment of the temples mostly attaches themselves to the known mountains and rivers or the key post in the cities. The temples adjust measures to local conditions and advocate nature. In this way, this fusion permeates Chinese traditional cultural intension and has more abound of gentle full-bodied beautiful rhyme than western construction. There are many flowers and trees in the temples of Tang dynasty; this kind of beautiful landscape attracts a great deal of poetic interests and intoning. Tea has a long history in China. Planting tea in temples has great contribute to develop the tea culture. Drinking tea has advantage to be quiet oneself and also becomes popular in the temples, which initially begin with Tang dynasty. Lu Yu who is famous in Tang dynasty is fond of tea even refines on it. He wrote the book"Tea Theory"which push the Chinese tea art into the summit of the history river. The tea verses testify the tea culture of Buddhist temple.The graceful environment of Buddhist temple attracts many visits of famous people. Many traveling temple verses come out. The temples are also the places, which people gather together to express the infelt words or give a farewell ceremony. The poets also could write their innermost emotion and their life gnosis here. When there exists the character"ti"in the Tang verses, the quite some belong to the subjects of poetic works which write on the temples'walls. Some bonzes sometimes preserve these poems. These verses could supply the rare material for us to research the poets in Tang dynasty. There are many collect books in the temples, spacious construction, finery environment, many houses, and well suited for the readers'demands. So temples have the social function. Buddhist temple provide fine environment, in order to learn from the knowledgeable shamans , many people live in the temple. There are many failed verses represent the suffering of the depressed people.SuSi verses represent the social function of temples'transferring. Except that the bookman like to lodge in the temples, it is the common phenomena that the common people live in Buddhist temple occasionally. The development of lodging in temples become necessary of social need. In the given period, the temples have some other functions, such as government affair and positing the royal families. What happened at the end of Tang dynasty just as HuiChang MieFo and An Shi Zhi Luan has disturbed the society. In this period, it is a exhaustive beat to Buddhism. The poets in the late Tang period has the depict of the barren temple and deposed temple and pour the sense of sorrow of that era.But most rulers in Tang period prop up the Buddhism, and it attracts many foreign shaman coming China, so it impulse the culture communication among these countries. Some repatriate verses represent the blest to the dignitary and the respect of their long hard journey to China. Also these verses express their affectionateness when the dignitary leaves. The Buddhist temple exhibits the function of diplomats.From analyzing the poetic works in Tang period, I want to exhibit the architectural sculpture, calligraphy mural, music art and the Buddhist temple art. Buddhist temple art is the rare treasure of our country and becomes a part of traditional culture of our country. The grandiosity scale and engraving beauty of Buddhist temple can be an artwork in the field of architectural sculpture. The calligraphic attainments of Bonze HuaiSu in many Tang verses have been exalted. The cursive at the aspect of transcend shed the artistic great fascination. The Buddhist temple mural has become very popular. At that time, there are many eminence painters. WangWei's landscape painting, HanGan's horses, ZhangNanben's fire, SunWei's Dragon, water, etc. The content of paintings in Tang is more exuberance than before and the scope and ambit are more expanse. The Buddhist temple mural take an important position in the painting history. The Buddhist music in the field of art creation and play come up to an upper level. In the Tang verses, there records the shaman in the temple have very high attainments. The Buddhist music by terms of its quietness and lustration makes people create sense of sincere and revere. It exerts a subtle influence on the bonze and vulgar. Buddhist music also become a part of Chinese ancient music. Buddhist temple acts as an important role at the folks. It represents an aspect of desacralization. The fifth part: It is the part of summarize. The thesis launches on the Tang verses introduces the development of Buddhism in Tang dynasty, investigates the esteem or oppose attitude of poets towards to Buddhism, represents many-sided socioculture function of Buddhist temple. Withal the Buddhist temple as the researching body, from the angle of analyzing Tang verses to reflect the load-supporting culture intension of Buddhist temple. To a certain degree, it restores the poetic creating visage of the poet in Tang dynasty at the subject matter of Buddhist temple.