摘要
1937年8月,中国佛教界领袖太虚法师致信第三帝国元首希特勒。日本全面侵华不仅给中国带来灾难,也对德国的利益造成巨大威胁,德方因此试图保持其在华势力。太虚的信件正是在这一中德日三国关系错综复杂、矛盾丛生的时期发出的。太虚从释迦牟尼是雅利安族最杰出的圣人这一观点出发,进而提出对种族主义的解释。以希姆莱为首的党卫军的“德国祖先遗产学会”所希望的,同样是以由雅利安人所创立的宗教来改造纳粹党的组织。太虚信中以佛教乃雅利安人的宗教为托辞,试图与希特勒建立联系,反映了民国时期中国知识界对种族主义思想的接受以及对纳粹意识形态的认识。对于历史人物的全面认识有赖于还原当时的历史语境,再现一段处于政治和宗教复杂张力中相关人物的所作所为,依据其所处的具体时空条件下所生成的价值标准做判断,才能相对客观地了解历史发展渐进与曲折的过程。
In August 1937,the leader of Chinese Buddhism Master Taixu sent a letter to Hitler,the head of the Third Reich.Japan's invasion of China not only brought disaster to China,but also posed a huge threat to Germany's interests.Therefore Germany tried to maintain its power in China.Taixu's letter was sent out in the period with complicated and contradictory relations among China,Germany and Japan.Starting from Sakyamuni as the most outstanding sage of the Aryans,Taixu then put forward his belief in racism,and“The German Ancestral Heritage Society”of the SS headed by Himmler also hoped to transform the Nazi organization with the religion founded by the Aryans.He wished to take Buddhism———Aryan religion as an opportunity to establish contact with Hitler.This refered to the acceptance of Racist ideas and the understanding of Nazi ideology by the Chinese intellectual circles in the Republican China.A comprehensive understanding of historical figures depends on restoring the historical context at that time.Only by reproducing the behaviors of related persons in the complex tension of politics and religion,and judging according to the value standard generated with specific time and space conditions,can we objectively understand the gradual and tortuous process of historical development.
出处
《抗日战争研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第4期97-113,M0004,共18页
Studies of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression
