《水浒传》与宋元佛教

The Water Margin and Buddhism in Song and Yuan Dynasties

《水浒传》是一部道教色彩非常浓厚的小说,但从很多情节之中,也表现出中国佛教、尤其是宋元以来佛教对当时社会的深刻影响。这些影响体现为:寺院组织结构和皈依浮图的仪式日益为人们所熟知;佛教的果报思想和重要的佛教人物日益深入人心;作为僧徒管理的度牒制度在小说中更带有宋元以来的文化特征;佛道之间的矛盾在小说中也有呈现。所有这些,都体现出佛教越来越世俗化的特征。

The Water Margin is a typical Taoist novel,but many of the plots also showed Chinese Buddhism,especially the profound Buddhist impact on the society since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. These effects were reflected in the following aspects that organization structure of the temple and hoodoo ceremony were increasingly familiar to people; that Buddhism retribution thought and important Buddhist figures were growing in popularity; that duty system as the management of Buddhist monks had cultural characteristics since the Song and Yuan Dynasties;that contradiction between Buddhism and Taoism were presented in the novel as well. All of these reflected the characteristics of the more and more secular Buddhism.