以诗证佛——王维的佛学“莲”诗论略

Certificate of Poetry,Buddhism——Wang Wei's Buddhist "Lotus" Poem

通过对"莲花"在佛经中的本意及引申义的简略考察,论述了佛教中国化中"莲"的意象。王维的佛理诗和自然山水诗中的"莲"有两种不同的指向,佛理之"莲"指向了王维对法华经等大乘佛家经典理解和认识;而自然之"莲"消解对佛家"法执""我执"的分别,使其山水诗等得证诗佛融通,不见佛迹,也确定了其"诗佛"的地位。

The image of lotus in Chinese Buddhism is discussed through concise research on the inherent and symbolic meanings of lotus in Buddhist Sutras.The lotuses in Wang Wei＇s Buddhist poems and nature poems respectively lead to two different directions.The lotuses of Buddhist poems reveal Wang Wei＇s understanding and recognition of Sad-dharma and other Mahayana Sutras,while the natural lotuses dissolve the difference between attachment to dharma and attachment to ego and make his landscape poems permeated by Buddhist essences without signs,establishing his historical position of Poetry Buddha.