The Interpenetration And Transcendency Of Mahayana Buddhism

Tang Junyi was a representative personality of the second New-Confucianism and an important philosopher of Chinese Philosophy in the twenty century. In his academically system which is immensity and wide-field, the annotation in hermeneutics sense about the Chinese Mahayana is an important part of it. This paper (doctor's degree) comprehensive and meticulous analysis Tang's annotation, and make some self-questioning and comment on the method or the way of Chinese Buddhism's philosophical hermeneutics in the modernity context in the light of Tang's case study. This dissertation has six chapters:In the first chapter, I make inquiry about Tang's holistic opinion, position and the way about Buddhism understanding and interpretation, from this inquiry, we can see the Buddhism thought's station in Tang's holistic idea of religion and his philosophical system, and the potential influence of Tang's age condition, the way of Tang's study, the characteristic of Tang's think and the concept of Tang's value on his understanding and interpretation.In the second chapter, I review tang's understanding and interpretation about the thoughts of The Zhaolun(肇论),The Chengshi school and Jizang of The Sanlun school from three sects, and this review make a contrast study on those Buddhism ideas: su^nyata of Praj?ā(般若空),the relationship of Praj?āand Chinese metaphysics, The twofold truth(二谛)and The Buddha-nature(佛性), on the one hand, I sum upon the characteristic of Tang's work, on the other hand, I point out his misapprehension about those ideas aforementioned, and try to construe its intrinsic causation.In the third chapter, I review Tang's understanding and interpretation about the thoughts of Dashing qixin lun(大乘起信论) and Vijnānamātra-theory(唯识学),and the primary ideas which be debated in this chapter are Two door of One Mind (一心开二门) ,Tatha^gatagarbha and True thusness(如来藏与真如心), The eight consciousnesses(八识) and Pravrtti-vij?āna(转识成智). In the fourth chapter, I review Tang's understanding and interpretation about the thoughts of Zhiyi of Tien Tai Sect, and the primary ideas which be debated in this chapter are the theory of Expedient and True, An abbreviation in one thought(一念三千), the theory of classifying the teachings, The perfect and sudden samatha and vipa/syana^ (圆顿止观).In the fifth chapter, I review Tang's understanding and interpretation about the thoughts of Fazang of The Huayan zong school, and the primary ideas which be debated in this chapter are the theory of True thusness don't transform according to causes and conditions, Fazang's re-interpretation about The six characteristics of seeds, and the understanding of The perfect (or complete) teaching of Huayan schools refer to their own teachings.In the sixth chapter, I first review the limitations of cognition and thinking mode in Tang's understanding and interpretation about the thoughts of Buddhism, and then I conclude that there are five points in Tang's works, which characteristic at cognition in logos in the text of Modernity; so I make some self-questioning and comment on the method or the way of Chinese Buddhism's philosophical interpretation of the time, and point out we must defer to the sermonic and apprehensible manner or mode of Buddhism itself, fully be convinced of the limitation and ambit of cognition, keep to the principle of macrocosm, and call for the spirit of criticism and self-criticism, so that, I think that we can fully know or comprehend the old Buddhism wisdom.