方东美华严哲学诠释的审美向度

On Thome H.Fang's Aesthetic Dimensions in His Interpretations of Hua-yan Philosophy

方东美对中国大乘佛学和华严宗哲学的阐发研究极具现代价值,他以高屋建瓴的形上学来透视华严哲学的广大和谐精神,以双回向的人文主义对华严宗义理进行了多维度的解析,以西方分析方法对华严哲学展开宇宙论、本体论与价值论的诠释。华严哲学的广大和谐性具有超越和消解西方哲学二元对立困境的理论启示价值。《华严经》运用一套隐喻的语言和诗的语言,所体现的思想饱含宗教情操、科学精神、道德理想以及艺术价值。华严哲学具有圆融之美,华藏世界是真善美圣的统一体,是一个金色妙香的光明世界。菩提不仅是代表了最高的道德理想,还体现了圆满的精神人格,融合了最高的艺术价值,达到了一种天人合一、"尽善尽美"的境界,体现了最高的善性与最高的美的统一。方东美的华严哲学诠释具有将形上学、伦理学、宗教学与艺术美学融会贯通的多重用意,从而实现了古代佛学与现代人生的思想对话。

Thome H. Fang's interpretations of Chinese Mahayana and Hua-yan Philosophy are of great modern significance who elaborated the comprehensiveness and harmony of Hua-yan Philosophy with a commanding height and a bilateral humanism from multiple dimensions,interpreting it from the aspects of cosmology,ontology and axiology by adopting Western analytical methods. The comprehensiveness and harmony of Hua-yan Philosophy transcend and dissolve the binary opposition in Western philosophy. With a set of metaphorical and poetic language,Hua-yan-jing(Avatamsaka Sutra) embodies the religious quality,scientific spirit,moral ideal and artistic value. Hua-yan Philosophy has a beauty of integration in which the world is a complete unity of truth,goodness,beauty and divinity. Bodhi not only stands for the utmost moral ideal,but also reflects the complete personality integrating the supreme artistic value and accomplishing the integration between nature and man,reaching the realm of"perfection"and manifesting the unity between the supreme goodness and beauty.FANG's integrations of Hua-yan Philosophy integrate the metaphysics,ethics,religion and artistic aesthetics and thus make the dialogue between the ancient Buddhism and the modern life possible.