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The Moral Implications Of The Wutai Mountain’s Buddhist Culture

Posted on:2017-03-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X X YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330509452887Subject:Marxist theory
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As a foreign culture, Buddhism was introduced to China two thousand years ago, it was collided and fused with the Chinese tradition’s Confucianism and Taoism Which has become an important part of Chinese traditional culture. As the UNESCO in 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping, said during the lecture, "Buddhism originated in ancient India. After it was introduced into China, the religion went through an extended period of integrated development with the indigenous Confucianism and Taoism and finally became the Buddhism with Chinese characteristics, thus making a deep impact on the religious belief, philosophy, literature, art, etiquette and customs of the Chinese people. Xuan Zang, the Tang monk who endured untold sufferings as he went on a pilgrimage to the west for Buddhist scriptures, gave full expression to the determination and fortitude of the Chinese people to learn from other cultures. The Chinese people have enriched Buddhism and developed some special Buddhist thoughts in the light of Chinese culture, and helped it to spread from China to Japan, Korea, South-east Asia and so on."Wutai mountain is one of the four famous Buddhist mountains in China, and it is Manjusri’s temple. It formed unique features that is different form other famous Buddhist mountains in this long history.The article interprets the moral implications of the Wutai mountain’s Buddhist culture that profound and comprehensive from three parts. First of all, it introduces the development history and heritage way of Wutai mountain’s Buddhist culture; secondly, it searches basic characteristic, spirits and moral implication; thirdly, it studies the positive effects for the construction of people’s moral in the new era. In totally, Wutai Mountain’s Buddhist culture is special and timeless, excepting for the Ethics and morality among the relatives, Thanksgiving economic ethics, honesty social morality, Political morality of liberal democracy, Religious Morality and Mahayana Buddha moral vows, it has special wisdom morality, friendly and patriotic morality. It has great influence on the development of Chinese moral culture and people’s mind.As far as the morality is concerned, researching the Wutai mountain’s Buddhist culture has an important meaning to the construction of Wutai mountain’s Buddhist culture, the heritage of Chinese traditional moral culture and the construction of advanced culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wutai Mountain’s Buddhist Culture, inheritance, morality
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