Research On The Mūlayāna Thought Of Master Nenghai

"Mulayana" is a new concept used by Master Nenghai.It has a close content with the triditional concept "hinayana" but its aim is to achieve Buddhahood. By using this word,we can aviod the contemptuous implication of the "hinayana"and emphasize its fundamental and initial meaning. The mulayana tripitaka includes Vinaya, Agama and Abhidharma,its practice involves trisiksa.In the history of the Chinese Buddhism, the mulayana is in the state of peripherization for a long time as a result of the decadent practice and the disdain of the classification. In modern China,due to the rising of the academic trend, the mulayana was gaining the importance again. But the academic prosperousness didn't directly mean the revivement of the practice tradition. Master Nenghai inspire the Chinese mulayana practice by the Tibetan Buddhism tradition, is an instructive trial against the separated state between the theory and the practice.Master Nenghai(1887-1976) was one of the most famous eminent monks in the modern china.He went to Tibet twice to learn Buddhism, and engaged in translation and preaching busily after he's back He established and renewed several monastery during his life and provided several outstanding monks to the Chinese Buddhism. His thoughts pay equal attention to trisiksa with emphasizing on stages and practice. It is a significant feature that master Nenghai values the mulayana practice. This paper tries to study master Nenghai's thought from the aspect of mulayana.It mainly contains three sections,In the first place,the author studies the content of master Nenghai's thought and discribes the outline of the thought through the frame of trisiksa. Following this, the author tries to analyse the reason of master Nenghai's mulayana-turning from the angles of the history, the background of the times and the theory. Finally, the author tries to discuss the inspiration of this thought in the field of the Chinese modern buddhism construction.