Buddhist Philosophy In Ethical Thinking

Religious ethics which adjusts the relation among the followers of a religion and among the common human beings is the thoughts, concepts and theories about religious morality and its core is belief. This thesis analyzes the seedtime of Buddhist ethics and provides some basic material and ideas for the studies of modern worldly ethics. It includes four sections.Introduction comes up its themes and approaches of the study.The chapter One summarizes the characteristic and significance of a religious ethics and points out that the combination of the forms of religion and the content of the moral leads to form the system of religious ethics. The religious belief is its origin and core. Religious ethics is not only realistic but also extramundane. Religious ethics lays stress on psychological guidance and promotes moral self-discipline of its believers.The chapter two summarizes the characteristic, significance and content of the ethics of Hindoo Buddhism on the basis of primitive Buddhis and Mahayana and discusses its ethical inclination through researching its basic doctrines and the early ethical practice of Buddha. The ethics of Mahayana is more systemic than that of Buddha in the field of belief and ethics.The chapter three analyzes the ethics of Chinese Buddhism according to LiuzuTanjing and it is the centre and emphasis of the paper. It analyzes the tendency of development of Buddhism after being introduced from India to China. Then it studies the ethical thoughts of LiuzuTanjing which is the representative lection of Chinese Buddhism, namely its values of good and evil, its values of commandment, its values of cultivation and its values of piety and loyalty and so on. At last, it simply summarizes the characteristic, significance of the ethics of Chinese Buddhism.