Study On Ya Hanzhang's Academic Thoughts

Ya Hanzhang is a famous theorist of ethnic political,religious scientist and Tibetologist of contemporary China.He has rich revolutionary experience and a wealth of academic writings and has unique contributions and important achievements in many fields.He has served as a leader in important institutions such as the Institute of Ethnic Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.As an important theorist on ethnic political and religious issues in China,he has done a lot of academic research on ethnic politics and religious issues and promoted the development of the Chinese national religious theory and the formulation and implementation of relevant policies and measures.He had undertaken major political tasks assigned by the Central Government to escort the 10 th Panchen Erdeni to Tibet.Through extensive academic research and outstanding political work,he has made outstanding contributions to safeguarding national unity,national solidarity,and religious harmony.The academic thought of Ya Hanzhang is very rich,mainly in the field of ethnic politics and religious issues.He put forward a lot of innovative ideas in the field of the issue of Hui nationality,the issue of the concept of Min-Zu,the issue of the formation of ethnic,the socialist ethnic question,etc.He comprehensively expounded the policy of freedom of religious belief of China,profoundly analyzed the relationship between religion and superstition and promoted the study of Chinese atheism history.He made outstanding contributions in the study of the relationship between the central government of China and Tibet local government in history,the serfdom system in Tibet and Tibetan Lamaism,etc.The academic thought of Ya Hanzhang has important theoretical value and practical significance.Firstly,in the term of ethnic politics,Ya Hanzhang put forward an idea that Hui nationality is a minority of China from those Islamic immigrants coming from west and central Asia to China since Yuan Dynasty and some Han people who believe in Islam gradually formed,that has important political significance for uniting Hui nationality.He corrected the serious misunderstanding of Stalin's definition of the“ Min-Zu” and boldly proposed an important thesis that the upper limit of national formation should be located in the“ Obscurant era” in primitive age on the basis of in-depth study of Marx's classical writers' related opinions.Secondly,in terms of religious issues,Ya Hanzhang made the most comprehensive and scientific explanation about the policy of freedom of religious belief of China at that time.he definitely distinguished religion form superstition and raised an innovational idea that religion is one kind of superstition,but not all superstitions are religions.Ya Hanzhang is the fist person who compiles the history of atheism in China.He insightfully presented that there are three points should be noted necessarily when combing the history of atheism in China.Thirdly,in terms of Tibetan studies which involves both ethnic political and religious issues,Ya Hanzhang did the most comprehensive and profound research at that time about development history of Tibetan society,Tibetan serf system,and the question about Tibetan Lamaism.Through combing the evolution history of Tibetan society he fully demonstrated the sovereignty of China over Tibet since ancient times and summarized the historical experience of the central government governs Tibet.At the meantime he also analyzed the way,features and influences of the exploitation Tibetan serf system did to their people,and profoundly criticized the the negative effect on the social development of Tibet caused by Lamaism in history.The books The Biographies of the Dalai Lamas and Biographies of the Tibetan Spiritual Leader Penchan Erdenis Ya Hanzhang wrote are important documents to learn the Lamaism and Tibetan society.In short,the rich academic thoughts of Ya Hanzhang on ethnic political and religious issues are of great significance to the later scholars and are worth combing and studying in a comprehensive and in-depth manner.