| As the two major academic trends in Wei and Jin Dynasties, metaphysics and Buddhism will inevitably communicate with each other, Tang Yongtong considers in History of Buddhism in Wei Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties that actually, the communication between metaphysics and Prajna is the mainstream of academic trend in the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties. This paper takes the Prajna thought of Seng Chao as the object of study, aims at describing the reflection of interaction between metaphysics and Buddhism in the Prajna thought of Seng Chao. Based on the documentary records and existing research achievements in academic circle, this paper discuss the topic from four aspects:background of Seng Chao’s thought, Prajna thought of Seng Chao, intercommunication between metaphysics and Buddhism before Seng Chao, communication between Seng Chao’s Prajna and metaphysics, tries to clarify the positions of metaphysics and Prajna in Seng Chao’s thought, and the relationship between the two thoughts.Firstly, from the background of Seng Chao’s thought, metaphysics has become the mainstream of social ideological trend, Buddhism has certain development in Chinese society, Chinese Buddhist scholars began to think independently, at that time, it is quite popular in society to analyze the "sex school seven section" of Prajna emptiness with the help of metaphysics. When Kumarajiva came to China, Madhyamika theory of Nagarjuna in India was introduced by him, which provides new theory for development of Prajna in China, sex school seven section was challenged by analysis of emptiness from metaphysics perspective. Seng Chao was kind hearted in early years, later received the Madhyamika theory from Rosh, analyzed emptiness through fusion of local metaphysics and foreign Madhyamika theory.Secondly, fusion of local metaphysics Buddhism before Seng Chao was mainly studied from the thought of sex school seven section. Taking the illuminating implication method as the principle line, since the Buddhism was introduced to China, the concepts such as "inactivity", "Tao" of Tao were used for analogy of thought of Buddhism in translating the Buddhist scriptures, when sermon, master Lao and master Zhuang thinking were also used to explain the concept of Buddhism difficult to understand. After the development of translation of Buddhist scriptures in China, Chinese Buddhist scholars have thought out some ideas of Buddhist independently, to understand foreign culture with domestic idea, Prajna in the period of sex school seven section was just the early stage of independent development of Buddhist in China.Thirdly, analysis the Prajna thought of Seng Chao from Corpus of Seng Chao. Things Are Not Moving introduced the concept of dynamic and static of Seng Chao, Seng Chao has broken and criticized the insistence on dynamic or static in common sense and put forward the opinion of dynamic while static. Non-vacuum Theory explained the Prajna emptiness idea of Seng Chao, criticized the three prejudices to emptiness, including without from ontology, without from heart, sex is emptiness, permeated the emptiness from the concept of origin, his analysis on emptiness in Prajna has reached the highest state of China Buddhism at that time. Prajna Ignorance mainly introduces the thought of epistemology of Seng Chao, although it mainly introduced the Prajna ignorance, it can reflect the all dharmas were silent. Nirvana Unknown described the highest free state of Buddhism. The nirvana thought of Seng Chao was the product of communication between India and China, Seng Chao held the opinion that nirvana can be obtained with separating from all dharmas, communicate the common affairs with affairs out of common scope, broken the gap between world of this side to world of other side, the realization liberation was only lies in blink of heart, i.e. the so called "influence things with kindness as natural as possible"①.Finally, study the communication between Prajna of Seng Chao and the metaphysics thought from the aspects of ontology, epistemology, methodology and view of sage, explains that the thought of Seng Chao is the "end of Wei-Jin metaphysics, start of Chinese Buddhist"... |
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