梁译《大乘起信论》的本觉论思想分析

On the Original Enlightenment in The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana

该文并非对本觉思想的历史做一宽泛之论,而是集中在梁译本《起信论》本觉思想的分析上面,并根据古代各注家的思想成果,把这一分析放在中国思想史的背景下进行观察。有关本觉和《起信论》文本研究在东亚已经有了相当长的历史,但关于《起信论》“本觉说”所讨论的深度并不太令人满意,该文仍然从近代以来中国佛学界讨论《起信论》思想问题的方式来对此问题进行论述,或许这样更可以让不同语言写作的学者进行对话。

This paper concentrates on the idea of original enlightenment in The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana, a very important work in Chinese Buddhist history. It reinterprets the meanings of original enlightenment in the context of recent researches, and analyzes the philosophical nature of the concept, its difference from the original annihilation and its significance in Chinese Buddhist development. At the same time, this paper tries to find out the relationship between the original enlightenment and Chinese traditional ideas.