佛家三藏与《文心雕龙》

The Buddhist Tripitaka Canon and Wen Xin Diao Long

佛家经、律、论三藏,卷帙浩繁,源远流长,一入东土,广心域,变世界,引人神游八极之表、思至幽妙之境,胸扩万仞之远,心怀穷理之志。及至南朝,释教广弘宇内,经卷敷于四海,诗文遍染禅风。观《文心雕龙》,立意高远,弥纶众说,体制严整,思理精微。上溯千年,华夏文论无此宏制,其独于刘彦和之手出之,何也?受持佛典得雕龙之技、修习佛法得为文之心故也。本文考《三藏》之概况,述《文心》之特征,察二者之联系,赞佛化之大功。

The Buddhist tripitaka canon including sutras pitak,vinayapitaka,and abhidhamma pitaka have numerous works and a long history.Ever since they were introduced to China,they were able to awaken people’s minds and therefore change their points of view of the entire world.Because of the Buddhist tripitaka canon,people in China started to purse great spiritual accomplishment and sometimes achieved and experienced the highest levels of enlightenment.During Nan Dynasty,Buddhism had great influences on people,politics,literatures etc.Wen Xin Diao Longis China’s first masterpiece of systematic theory of literature and art.It was creative from all aspects,provided complete and detailed explanations,and initially established the methodology of literacy criticism.What enabled the author of Wen Xin Diao Long,Liu Xie,to be able to accomplish these?It turned out he was benefited from Buddhism.His theory of literature arrangement was quite similar to the foundations of the Buddhist tripitaka canon works.This article discusses the Buddhist tripitaka canon,identifies the key accomplishments of WenXinDiaoLong,and pointes out correlations between those two.