道信“坐作并重”浅议

A Brief Discussion On DaoXin's Buddhist ideas of Laying EmphasisOn Combination of Meditation and Labor

以四祖道信"坐作并重"的禅学思想为主要线索,分析了这一思想提出的历史背景及其蕴含的主要内容,指出这一思想不仅有助于树立中国僧人的新形象,而且推动了佛教运动的民间化进程。

Taking the Fourth Ancestor DaoXin's Buddhist ideas of Laying Emphasis on Combination of Meditation and Labor as the main clue,the paper analyses the background of the theory and its main content. The author points out that the theory not only makes for establishing new images of Chinese monks,but also gives an impulse to the civilian progress of the Buddhism campaign.