佛教入华早期对本土神学依附的传播策略初探

Strategies of the Spreading of the Early Buddhism on Chinese Theology

佛教入华传播是中国文化史中的一件大事,它对中国传统文化中以儒为主,儒、释、道三家既冲突又互相融合格局的形成有巨大的推动作用。由于恒河文明与黄河文明的巨大差异,佛教在入华传播之初即与中华传统文化产生了冲突。佛教传播者明智地将佛教教义与中华大地上盛行的神学思想相结合,成功地解决了佛教在中国立足的问题,为其后的佛教中国化以及随之而来的佛教在中华大地上近两千年的繁荣昌盛奠定了坚实的基础。文章中的佛教早期是指魏晋南北朝佛教大规模入华以前。

The entering and the spreading of the Buddhism in China was considered a big event, which had pushed greatly the forming of the three big religions： Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in China, and causing the conflicts among them in Chinese traditional culture. Because of the great difference between civilizations of Henhe River and Yellow River, there was a dispute between Buddhism and the Chinese traditional culture when it first came to China, therefore, those disseminators tried to successfully combine the Buddhism doctrines with the then prevailing theological ideas in China, helping the establishment and the flourishing of the Buddhism in the Chinese culture for almost 2000 years in this country.