试论《西游记》的宗教特质及其理论分野

Religious Features and Theoretical Difference of A Journey to the West

通过《西游记》的宗教描写阐释了《西游记》的宗教问题,认为完全是遵循修性修命、大乘小乘、正道旁门、人身妖躯的理论分野而展开的,是一个完整的统一体。对于《西游记》宗教理论分野的清理有助于廓清学术界长期以来关于《西游记》宗教内涵的种种争论,从而为正确认识《西游记》的创作意图和艺术构思打下坚实的基础。

This paper probes into the religious descriptions in A Journey to the West and explains the problems related to religion. It holds that the novel is a unified whole as far as religion is concerned, centering on the differences in ways of personal moral cultivation, the good and the evil, and what is and is not human. Such a study can help to resolve the controversies in the understanding of religious issues in the novel, and thus help us to have a correct understanding to its intention and artistic conceptions.