当代佛教神圣性建构的“社会机制”——南北传佛教社会学的比较视角

Social Mechanism Supporting Buddhism as a Sacred Belief

亚洲文明体系之中,佛教的地位与作用举足轻重。但亚洲的佛教信仰并非单一体系,它具有南传、北传与藏传三大佛教系统,各自具有不同的教义理解、修持体系、佛教仪式等等。同时,亚洲还是一个没有主导宗教的地缘文明体系,南北传佛教在其间虽然很重要,但也不是主导宗教。梵巴语系的佛教如何再度与汉传佛教整合,这就需要一个普遍性的神圣价值核心。一个"中国佛教"的概念及其价值观,很难直接走进巴梵语体系的佛教领域。所以,"一带一路"及其命运共同体的战略设计,为亚洲佛教普遍神圣性的建构提供了历史契机,但是如何抓住契机,这就需要佛教信仰普遍实践的社会机制。

The status and roles of Buddhism are of great importance in Asian civilization.However,Asian Buddhism is not a single system,it has the three demensions such as Theravada Buddhism,Mahayana Buddhism and Tibetan Buddhism.Each has different doctrine understanding,ritual practices and so on.Meanwhile,Asia still as a geographical civilization has no dominant religion.Nontheless Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism is of crucial importance in Asia,both are not the dominant religion too.The Chinese Buddhism make great contribution to the world Buddhism as one of the three major systems.Now the question to be asked is:in which way could the core value link together the three Buddhism in terms of universal sacredness.A simple concept of Chinese Buddhism is hard to be accepted by Theravada Buddhism.Therefore,The One Belt and One Road Initiative and Community of Common Destiny concept will provide a historical opportunity for the construction of universal sacredness among Asian Buddhism.However,how to grasp the opportunity still requires the social mechanism to build the universal sacredness between Theravada Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism.