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The Buddhist Moral & Education

Posted on:2010-05-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y H MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360302464707Subject:Principles of Education
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The traditional education of our country has been focusing on moral education for promoting society development by cultivating perfect human being. Since May forth Movement, our formal educational inheritance, which attached great importance to ethical training, was given up gradually soon after western educational system was introduced into Chinese Objectively, science and technology from west actually brought us apparent benefits on improving our material life and promoting our science and technology.After devoting too much energy to pursuing examination grade, skill and material gain, there comes a common worry about next generation's ethical quality and their future ethical environment. Nowadays, more and more people share the same expectation on a healthy moral life and a harmonious spiritual yard.Chinese traditional culture contains Confucian, Buddhism and Taoism. The same characteristic of them is containing abundant thinking of ethical and human being's culture. In addition, the three schools promoted and mixed with each other, contended and sent out their own particular glories. With my original intention of exploring traditional culture education sources, writer realizes that Buddhism has its own ethical educational system which is composed of its ethical thinking and accomplishing method, such as the good and the evil value, the point of view of ethic, and specific contents and method etc. by initial probing into Buddhism ideology .In order to display the general situation of Buddhism moral education ideological system within limited words and chapters, the essay takes Buddhism overall accomplishing method as the thread to set forth ethical accomplishment from lower lever to higher lever from two directions----inwardness improvement and behavior improvement. The essay attempts to show the core spirit of Buddhism ethical ideology by elaborating the accomplishment developing procedure from basic accomplishable stage to perfect stage, and provides supplement and reference for enriching modern moral education system via analyzing the principle and mechanism of the producing and development of moral integrity.
Keywords/Search Tags:Moral education, Educational inheritance, Traditional culture, Buddhism ideological system of moral education
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