中国传统佛教与日本“批判佛教”

Chinese Traditional Buddhism versus Japanese "Critical Buddhism"

从20世纪初开始,一直有日本学者质疑中国传统佛教并非真佛教,最后酝酿出"批判佛教"的思潮。他们在误会《阿含经》缘起法的前提下,强力否定以如来藏之修证为中心的中国传统佛教。影响所及,台湾佛学研究出现了日本化的倾向。事实上,如来藏并不违背《阿含经》。《阿含经》的"我"和"识界"等名相,以及入胎识、持身识等观念,说的都是如来藏,也是实质上的大乘法。

Since the beginning of the 20th century, there have been some Japanese scholars who critiqued that Chinese traditional Buddhism is not the true Buddhism and this viewpoint developed into the thought of ＂Critical Buddhism＂ finally. Based on the misunderstanding of the dependent-arising dharma in The Agama Sutras, they strongly negated Chinese traditional Buddhism, which centered on the practice and realization on Tathagatagarbha. Influenced by that viewpoint, Taiwan Residents Buddhist research had deviated into the trend of Japanization. As a matter of fact, Tathagatagarbha does not conflict with the teaching of TheAgama Sutras. The terms of ＂self＂ ,＂consciousness realm＂ etc. in TheAgama Sutras and the concepts of embryo-entering consciousness, body-sustaining consciousness etc. are all about Tathagatagarbha, and this is also the virtual dharma of Great-vehicle.