《元始天尊说无上内秘真藏经》“法界”思想探微

A Probe into the Thought of“Dharma Realm”in The Supreme Internal Secret Zhen Zang Sutra of Yuanshi Tianzun

《元始天尊说无上内秘真藏经》融汇佛教“法界”学说思想成果,构建了大乘道教的“法界观”。“真藏”意味着法界,真实存在于众生自性本具的“道性”之中,所谓“道向性中作,莫向身外求”。真藏法是超越有无二边、“一真一切真”的最究竟境界;一切众生都与天尊本性平等。《真藏经》的“法界”之说并非华严学“一真法界”义理的翻版,实际上是为了回护、彰显符合道教精神特质的“道”身有相学说,为诠释“道”的真常、实有之理论特质,论证“道性”的本体意蕴服务的。他不仅凸显“身”为实体,而且强调“心”亦是实体。在这一点上,《真藏经》又融会贯通了佛教天台宗圆教学说的“法身有相”命题。《真藏经》法界学说的理论特征与中国佛教“性空妙有”的思想特质,具有一定的相似性。

The Supreme Internal Secret Zhen Zang Sutra of Yuanshi Tianzun integrates the results of the Buddhist“Dharma Realm”doctrine and constructs the“Dharma Realm View”of Mahayana Taoism.“Zhen Zang”means the realm of Dharma,which truly exists in the“Tao Nature”inherent in the nature of all beings.The true Tibetan Dharma is the most ultimate state that transcends the existence of two sides of“Yes”and“No”,“one truth and all truth”;all sentient beings are equal in nature with the deity.The“Dharma Realm”in the Zhen Zang Sutra is not a copy of Huayan’s“One True Dharma Realm”theory,but is actually for the purpose of protecting and demonstrating the“Tao”doctrine of physical phenomena that conforms to the spiritual characteristics of Taoism.It not only highlights the“body”as an entity,but also emphasizes that the“heart”is also an entity.The ultimate goal is to interpret the real and actual theoretical characteristics of“Tao”and serve to demonstrate the ontological implication of“Tao”.At this point,the Zhen Zang Sutra has also integrated the proposition of“Dharmakaya has an aspect”in the Buddhist Tiantai Zongyuan teaching theory.The theoretical characteristics of the Zhen Zang Sutra doctrine of the realm of Dharma have a certain similarity with the ideological characteristics of Chinese Buddhism’s“emptiness and beauty”.