佛法是一种本体论吗?——比较哲学视域中对佛法基本要义的反思

Is Buddhist Doctrine a Type of Ontology?

本体论远非是佛学研究的一个自明可靠的诠释构架,在相关语境中对其边界的重新厘定具有奠基性的意义。佛教的基本精神既不是西学意义上的本体论,也不是体用论意义上的本体论,而是阐明空相应缘起的缘起论;体用论是中国化佛教的主体构架之一,它的根源不在于佛教,而是经魏晋玄学改造后的老子道论。

Ontology is more than a self evident reliable interpretative framework in Buddhist studies. Therefore it is fundamental to collate its boundary in interrelated context. The essence of Buddhism is not a type of ontology in the Western sense, nor a type of ontology in the theory of body and function. It is indeed pratitya-samutpoda is in accord with emptyness. The theory of body and function is one of the mainframes of Chinese Buddhism, and its root lies outside Buddhism, in Lao-Tzu s theory of the Way as modified by metaphysics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.