Buddhism And Mourn Literature Motif

Mourning theme runs through the whole literature history of China, and the spread Buddhism exerted an important influence in mourning theme. Starting with mourning objects, through comparing with the similarities and differences that the themes appears before or after the Buddhism spreading, analyze the impact of foreign ljiterature. There are three kinds text influenced by Buddhism greatly and with strong religious style: Mourn by oneself, including realize the preexistence story, return living world, relive souls from the hell; Mourn prostitutes, including the type of lust testing, collar-bone Bodhisattvas; Mourning a monk , including the unrotten tongue, worships of Buddha' s crystal, mourned by the pagoda etc. The different shape of mourn theme origins from the cultural difference. It has deep-rooted inertia that influenced by Confucianism before this, Buddhism as a kind of external forced produced strong impact to it. Incorporate like this: different incline; different Life views; different utility views. In addition, Confucianism and Buddhism happen to have the same views to make these kinds of integration become possible. The two get up to the common objective result: Uphold the justice of human world; Warn the evil person; Reach the same morals self-perfection through different ways; Influenced by the two thoughts, the Chinese novel presented an obvious characteristic—preach. The tragic style of mourn theme had been diluted after merging.