论近代日本新佛教运动重提“大乘非佛说”的历史意义

The Historical Significance of Revisiting of “Mahayana Not Being Buddha” in Modern Japanese New Buddhism Movement

新佛教运动是日本明治中后期兴起的佛教改革运动,该运动的重要特征之一,是主张对佛教教理的自由批评和探讨。运动的领军人物古河勇、西依一六等率先关注江户时代起被讨论的"大乘非佛说",并藉此宣布佛教进入怀疑时代,提倡对佛教教理进行历史的、批判性的研究,为后来村上专精等人对"大乘非佛说"的梳理奠定了舆论和理论基础,对佛教的历史性研究产生深刻的影响。

The new Buddhism movement is one of the Buddhism reform movement in the late Meiji Japan. As one of its features, the movement advocated free discussion and criticism on Buddhist teaching. Hurugawa Isamu and Nisiyori Ichiroku, the leading characters in Japanese New Buddhist Movement paid the lead attention to the view of ＂Mahayana Not Being Buddha＂, which had been discussed from the Edo times, and based on that, they decided Buddhism entered into the age of doubt. They advocated historical and critical study of the Buddhist teachings. Their study laid a good public and theoretical foundation for Murakami Senjo and other people＇s study on the same subject, with a profound impact on the study of Buddhism history.