On The Construction Of Place From The Perspective Of Buddhism Tales In Fa-Yuan-Zhu-Lin

During the period of domestication, Buddhism was unfamiliar with the place and the people in China. It spread in both cities and mountain forests. And its acceptors involved royalty as well as the populace. With the alteration and restruction of tales, Buddhism began a full pervasion in the mediaeval religion. Places in tales could be veritably pointed out in the true-life, which increased the reliability among Chinese people. Under the affect of this kind of sensation, Buddhism firstly shorten the distance to embracers.Owing to the Buddhism tales, some places were turned into the shrine while some monks were worshiped by the populace. All made the Buddhism teachings settled in China rapidly. Meanwhile, Buddhism also derived nutrient from Chinese traditional culture. It made use of Fealty(亲亲)in Chinese familial concept for poetical justice. And its teaching of Samsara was easily combined with the Soul in Chinese, which got a tremendous impact on Chinese believers.Based on the Buddhism tales in Fa-Yuan-Zhu-Lin(《法苑珠林》),this thesis will take Lushan(庐山)and Bashu(巴蜀)as the typical restructed places to make clear the relations between fictitious and real places. And via the study in the concepts of Fealty and Samsara presented in the Buddhism tales, this thesis will outline the effect on place brought by the teachings. Then we will try to describe the acceptation of Buddhism tales in different areas from the view of nostalgia. And ultimately we could discover the function of the construction of Place in Buddhism tales during the period of domestication.