Lu Xun's Novel And Buddhism Culture

Luxun forge indissoluble bound with Buddhism all his life. Purpose lies in study how Buddhism culture to influent the novels of Luxun's.Era atmosphere, life ideal of transforming national qualities and the experiences, Luxun was close to Buddhism. And he had formed unique Buddhism view. His attitude toward Buddhism was dialectical. It's thought that Luxun's understanding to Buddhism should be divided into two stages. On the one hand, he had seen Buddhism as the enthusiasm of a kind of philosophy of life, and was deeply affected by its values and thinking; On the other hand, he had also seen that as the important part of China's traditional culture, utilized by the persons who "eat Buddhism", Buddhism became a tool which anaesthetize and cheat ordinary common people. However, this article should divide into two parts to discuss the influence. The one is that the criticism of Buddhism in Luxun's novel: Including samara say, hell say, born and restrain oneself spirit anesthesia. The other discusses that, Luxun can't help reflect in his novel as accepted the philosophy of life about Buddhism: novel world similar to Buddhism world, influences of Buddhism romanticism color; Suspecting, persistent and devotion, which he drew from Buddhism, embodiment in the novel, the reflection of Buddhism's life-be-bitter thought in the novel. The main way to study is analyzing the concrete personage images and incident in novel, combining Luxun relevant words in other writings. The novels mentioned include all the novels in shout loudly, no way to go, new stories, and other early novels which didn't collected in above Novel collections, such as miss old, Sparta grams of soul, etc.