唐代僧人的儒家伦理化特点探析

An Analysis of the Confucian Ethicizing Features of the Buddhist Monks in the Tang Dynasty

唐代是佛教在中国历史上发展最繁荣的时期,同时也是佛教中国化的重要转折期,儒佛由对立到合一的过程主要就发生在这一历史阶段。通过梳理唐代僧传及墓志铭等历史文献,对唐代僧人的儒家伦理化特点进行了研究与总结,探讨在僧人身上呈现出儒佛合一的宏观趋势,以及儒佛在融合过程中所体现出的张力。

The Tang Dynasty is the most prosperous period in China for Buddhism, and also the important turning point of sinicizing Buddhism. It is in this historical period that Confucianism and Buddhism changed from opposition to syncretism. By reviewing such historical literature as the biographies of the Buddhist monks in the Tang Dynasty and their epitaphs, this paper studies and summarizes the Confucian ethicizing features of the Buddhist monks in the Tang Dynasty, and explores the macroscopical trend of the syncretism between Confucianism and Buddhism em- bodied by the Buddhist monks and the tension in this process.