《肇论》的论证艺术与语言风格

The Argument Art and Language Style of Zhao Lun

东晋高僧僧肇,师从鸠摩罗什,吸取中观学派"有无双遣,不落两边"的论辩艺术,将其与先前接受的儒学、玄学影响融会贯通,形成自己独特的论辩风格。《肇论》在语言风格方面,受当时流行的骈俪文体的影响,但与其重在释理的特点有关,因而又不为文体所束缚,将深邃的佛理用自然朴实的语言阐述清楚,是在中印文化交融下结出的"论"体"奇葩"。

Seng Zhao,the Eminent monk of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, studiest under Kumarajiva. He assimilated the argument art of Madhyamika faction that there are unique removal, which does not set on both sides. He combined it with the previous accep- tance of Confucianism, metaphysics impact together and formed his own unique artistic argument. The language style of the Bud- dhism＇s theory had been affected by the impact of the fashionable stylistic art of parallelismin; however, with the rationale for its focus on the characteristics of explain reason, and thus not bound for the style, and Buddhism^s theory used natural plain lan- guage to clearly expound the profound Buddhist theory.