Study On Buddhist Culture And The Formation Of Chinese Dragon King Belief

Folk belief is the worship and respect to the Supernatural spirit that peoplespontaneously. Chinese folk religion means common god faith,it has a long history inchina,one typical characteristics of Chinese folk religion is mix the traditional gods andthe religion of god,and to make a messy faith system.Never mind the gods come fromwhere,as long as they can give people wishes.So,Chinese folk beliefs has a character ofworship of multiple gods. Dragon King belief is such a belief that based on the Chinesetraditional dragon worship,and be affected by buddhist culture.The article is based on the theory of cultural transmission and culture proliferation,according to the train of though about tthe dragon King belief ‘s formation and rich,toconfor the buddhist culture’s influence in the course of Dragon King belief’sformation,its divided into six parts.First explain the reason of selected topic, to encapsulate the reality of the DragonKing Belief’s research,to point out the blank on research, establish the researchmethods,point out the research significance and originality.The First chapter disscuss the buddhist culture’s influence in the course of DragonKing belief’s formation.The name of “Dragon King” appeared in the the buddhistscripture first. In the process of the Dragon King’s change from fetish to person,buddhist culture effected it directly.After the Dragon King become one,the ChineseDragon King divided into two kinds of good and evil by the influence of the buddhistscripture.The second chapter explain buddhist culture and the enlarge of the Dragon King’sclergy.Raining is the content of Chinese Dragon King’s worship,and it conform to thedragon king’s records in the buddhist scripture,For the enlarge of the buddhist culture’sinfluence,the Chinese Dragon King’s clergy won more support among thepeople.Otherwise, buddhist culture influenced Dragon King’s other clergy such asprotecting owner and hasten auspicious misfortune. The third chapter research the relationship between buddhist culture and the dragonpalace.The forth chapter analyze the construction of Temple of the Dragon King,buddhist culture effect it.At last summary the article,point out that the influence is an phenomenon aboutculture proliferation,for this,the value of Dragon King belief raised much more.