Void Of Buddhism In Ethical Thinking

Tai-xu is the famous modern monk and advocate of the reformation of Buddhism in China."Life Buddhism" is Tai-xu's final understanding of Buddhism.His thought is a complex theoretical system,including the idea of the universe,the view of the human world and the reform of Sinhala,and so on.This paper is the ethics interpretation of the thought of Tai-xu's life Buddhism.It singled out ethics exposition in the whole system of Tai-xu's thoughts specifically and constituted a theory as a whole alone.That's the key of this paper.The main ideas are as follows:The prolegomenon introduced Tai-xu's lifetime and the connotation of life Buddhism ethnics simply.In the secondary chapter,it got the basic theoretical foundation of the natural laws and moral laws through Tai-xu's understanding of the Buddhism "Causes View" and "Freedom View".The "Causes View" mainly talked about the theory of Causes of 12 Origin and karma.Tai-xu considered freedom is a process that changes from negative side to positive side.On the basis of "Causes View" and "Freedom View",it established Tai-xu's "evolution theory" and "life views".The "Causes View" and the "Freedom View" are also important basis of the whole Buddhism ethnics.And it founded the morality basis of "evolution theory" by the inevitable behavior and punishment.In the course of human evolution,Tai-xu's "life views" constituted from his attention and concern on the Men Vehicle(人乘).Tai-xu analysed ten kinds views of life and emphasized the "life views" of Mahayana' s(大乘佛教),thus completed the theory premise of the Ethics thoughts in the entire life Buddhism.Under this premise,it gave clear expositions of Tai-xu's "concept of good and evil" and "concept of moral values".Tai-xu considered that the issue of good and evil is human nature and it solve the problem usually based on the understanding of human nature.Human beings are rational,so the ultimate nature should be no good or evil and beyond good and evil.In the judgment of good and evil,there is a process of transformation from the effects of the motivation and effectiveness of the reunification.He considered that moral good and evil depends on the certainty of human desires.Next,in chaptersⅤandⅥ,it went to the track of standardized ethics to give a start to the Tai-xu's relevant ethics thoughts.That includes "moral principles","moral laws","moral accomplishment" and " moral ideal" in Tai-xu's life Buddhism. "Benefit both individual and others" is the moral principles as well as the principles of Mahayana.Tai-xu cultivated some creative contents to traditional precepts of Buddhism:"the five disciplines(五�')",the ten good(十善)","the four regimen(四摄)", "the six release(六度)".And he put forward the concept of civil morality and national ethics from the perspective of Buddhism. "The eight right ways(八正道)" is the most important method and means of the moral cultivation of life Buddhism.And the paper discussed the moral cultivation problems from the three groups of lay,women,and monks separately in accordance with the ethical requirements of different groups.The realization of "Land of Virtue" is Tai-xu's highest moral ideal which has ethics significance.Finally,it gave a brief evaluation on the Tai-xu's religious reform from a religious perspective of ethics.It believed that the thought of Buddhist Ethics in Taixu life Buddhism has two significant aspects which relates the past and the future.One is the historical summary of human thoughts in Buddhism,and the other is the contemporary human pilot of Buddhism theory.Tai-xu's Buddhism reformation meets the needs of the development of Buddhism naturally and ideologically,and it has unusual significance in the history of the development of Buddhism.At the same time,this reformation not only has touched the religious nature of the level change,but also opened a new road for modern Buddhism revolution successor.The purpose of this paper is to summarize Tai-xu's thoughts of life Buddhism systematically,to grasp the significance of Tai-xu's reform for the development of modern Buddhism,and to seize the history of the development of the modern Buddhism from the perspective of ethics.The study mainly used philosophy and ethics,philology and textual criticism,history of ideas methods.By using philology and textual criticism methods,it studied expositions in different periods,then got the reasonable definition and analysis.After that,it made classification and composition through the method of history of ideas.The paper respected for the original narrative strictly.Based on that,it made analysis and discussion by using philosophy and ethics methods, and finally,estabished a ideological system of Tai-xu's life Buddhism in accordance with the requirements of ethics.