The Literature In The Perspective Of "Infinite Life Sutra" Research

" Infinite life Sutra " which is an important classic Mahayana Buddhism, is of great value. As the relationship between religion and literature are closely linked, this paper from the perspective edition translated by Kang Sengkai who was a translater of Wei state in the eastern han dynasty and based on the collection of five kinds of edition by the layman Xia Lianju as a reference to study this pure land Buddhism Mahayana sutra in order to excavate the literature value of the "Infinite life Sutra".This paper from the structure, characters, imagination and artistic skills in four aspects of "Infinite life Sutra" literary value. The first chapter mainly studies the "Infinite life Sutra" structure and the layout. First of all, "Infinite life Sutra" adopts the structure of this paper break the normal procedure, narrative. Scripture led to "a" from the start, are in turn accountable to the argument of the Buddha’s time, place, attending the public, say, karma, argument and encourage the flow of, consul general at the beginning of this paper, broken when in doubt the letter; end up by full, praise merit, this kind of structure pattern making the Scripture with a strong narrative color. Secondly, throughout the whole argument is taken by the Buddha, the layers in the form of questions and answers, questions, to promote the process of setting up the suspense statement. The four problems of Ananda and Maitreya Bodhisattva, the statement content in-depth, fascinating.The second chapter mainly studies the characters portrayed in the. This mostly portray the image of Amitabha Buddha, from the Buddha to the world free wangfo solution, to initiate the 48 Hongshi vows, to after several robbery repair of sophisticated, to the final success of supreme Bodhi, etc. enlightened Buddha to the public show a sophisticated seeking method of Tibetan monks, a Hong vows deep law Tibetan monks, a sacred law Tibetan monks. One of the main character, is the Buddha emphasized characteristic is his deep Philip vows. In addition to by Amitabha, we simply introduced the image of Shakya Muni buddha. Shakyamuni Buddha is secular mentor Buddha, we rob the Guru Buddha, also is the Dharma of the narrators and the character through in the whole text, especially beginning of Sakyamuni Buddha process of a brief summary, making the image more plump. Shakya Muni Buddha image is diligent, compassion, wisdom, is conscious, he felt, felt the line successfully.The third chapter discusses the realistic world depicted in imagination. The free life by "the most literature, undoubtedly to the paradise Amitabha detailed description and extremely vivid and imaginative. Good Elysian Fields includes two aspects:special rare living environment and casual living beings. Special rare living environment in paradise plant beauty, architectural beauty and music beauty. Casual life including the country being comfortable, comfortable bath clothes and live free diet. The amitayus Sutra of the Saha world also have to depict, here referred to as full of evil five five five pain burning the evil world of five turbidities, here the Buddha for us depicts the five pieces of the sins and suffering figure:brutal killing, stingy greedy thieves figure, sexual misconduct, evil, slander and false do not believe figure, ignorant little intelligence. The five kinds of karma are Buddhism are killing, stealing, prostitution, false, wine, also correspond to the Confucian benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, faith.The fourth chapter discusses the artistic skills. The Amitayus sutra literature highlight the surface now blessed with literary language and the ways of expression, the main are:contrast, rhyme, scattered with image and metaphor. Contrast of performance in two aspects, one is comparison of Elysium and evil world of five turbidities. This is bliss and very bitter, very good and the enormity of the contrast, such a strong contrast, let listeners launched out from the heart, infinite yearning of nirvana. Second is Nirvana beings appearance beauty and other beings looks ugly contrast, let the reader in contrast to better understand the blissful beings face end Yan. The second part to vow to verse, for example analysis of the rhyme, scattered with the narrative, here the rhyme scattered with long lines and stanzas part is explanation and interpretation, summary and summarized the relationship. The third part is the analysis of the blessed one said image metaphor characteristics, of doubting edge to the parable of the sentient beings of the city as an example, through the form of metaphor, a simple and to make it more palatable to the public and easier to understand.