王维、柳宗元、刘禹锡对惠能禅的总结与推动

Wang Wei's, Liu Zongyuang's and Liu Yuxi's Summarization and Promotion of Huineng's Dhyana

惠能是中国禅宗的实际创始人,惠能卒后,盛唐和中唐的三位著名文人王维、柳宗元、刘禹锡为其作了碑铭,扩大了惠能在盛、中唐整个知识界上层的影响。王、柳、刘的三碑充分揭示了惠能禅的特点。同时,王、柳、刘的文学创作又深受惠能禅的深刻影响,构成了禅与文学密切联系的重要一维。

Huineng was the actual founder of the Chan Sect in China. After his death, it was Wang Wei, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi as the three best-known scholars in those days who, by writing respective epitaphs for Huineng, helped expand his influence on the upper strata of intellectual world in the prosperous and middle Tang Dynasty. Wang's, Liu's and Liu's epitaphs presented a full display of Huineng's talent and personality. Moreover, deeply influenced by Huineng in their literary writing, their literary works make an important dimension of studies on the relationship between literature and dhyana.