The View Of Buddhish Equality In The Ethical Perspective

Buddhism is such a religion that have been pursuing basic equlity since it was founded.The view of Buddhism equality is one of Buddhism basic doctrines and also one of Buddhism ethical principles.Buddhism Great Dictionary explains that equality is having no difference among high,low,deep and shallow.That is to say,Buddhism equality means without difference. Therefore this kind of equality has thoroughness and inclusion. It includes:the equality between individual persons;the equality between sentient beings;the equality between sentient beings and Buddha;the equality between sentient beings and non-sentient beings.The view of Buddhism equality represents different features in different historical periods;the four castes and all the sentient beings are equal during the primitive Buddhism;essential natures are equal during Great Vehicle Wisdom;non-duality equality during Madhyamika School.After Buddhism spread through China,the different Chinese Buddhism schools made the view of Buddhism equality reflected in Buddha-nature thinking and developed the non-duality equality extremely well.This thesis demostrates the reasonableness of the Buddhism equality view from Dependent Origination,Buddha-nature thinking,the Emptiness of Nature and Effects of Prior Actions. The most basic theoretical premise of the Buddhism equality view is Dependent Origination.Emptiness is its ontology basis, Buddha-nature is its pure mind basis,and Effects of Prior Actions is its phenomenon basis. Buddhism equality principle and thought run through in Buddhism ethical thinking everywhere.Ethical relationships mainly represent in the following three aspects;indivedual person and self;one person and others;human beings and nature. The view of Buddhism equality reveals Buddhism unique life thinking and life truth.It represents the Buddha spirit of benefiting and enlightenment of self and others.The view of Buddhism equality is exactly the equality of sentient beings, essential nature and effects.It represents the thought of protecting lives and pure land.By studying the view of Buddhism equality in the ethical perspective,we can find that this kind of view has unique ethical features:the unity of secularization and transcendence;the unity of self-discipline and heteronomy; the unity of life view,nature view and value view.The view of Buddhism equality still has important theoretical resource value as an important Buddhism ethical principle.Times are changing,but the view of Buddhism equality still has important meaning in dealing with communicational relationship and the relationship between human beings and nature as a moral norm and ethical principle.However,it can not be denied that the view of Buddhism equality has some negative values inevitably such as absurdity, weakness and abstraction as a result of its supramundane ultimate value pursuit.We should study it scientifically on the guidance of the Marxism equality view.