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Study On The Religious View Of Liu Yuxi Of The Tang Dynasty Literati

Posted on:2015-04-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F R GeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330422975326Subject:Religious Studies
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Religious Views, it is definition that People’s overall understanding and point onreligion. Liu Yuxi as the famous writer, materialism ideologist, politics innovators intang dynasty.his religious views influence the most people of ancient Chinese people andliterati theory development process, it an indispensable link and play an important role inhistory.In this paper, we research on Liu Yuxi, using the interdisciplinary research method,from the source of study on Liu Yuxi to discuss the relation between Liu Yuxi,sphilosophical thought、literary creation、life experiences and excursion with religion.Thisis both the in-depth research of Liu Yuxi,is also a investigate Tang dynasty literati strivesthe religious ideas into their thinking activities and reflects the religious impact on theChinese literati.This article attempts study on the period of tang dynasty social and historicalbackground to elaborates the religion of Liu Yuxi. It made a detail from liu yuxi concept ofConfucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Poems reflect the religious concept, show theattitude criticize and sublate to religion. Confucian view of nature and man is the collectiveembodiment of Confucian religion. Confucius advocated "points away". Dong zhongshu’sunderstanding of God is about to human power. Confucian attitude towards God is throughto worship god, worship ancestors, to show the heavens to the power of social governanceorder about. And liu yuxi concept of harmony and the former is different, he doesn’tbelieve in god can decide the rise and fall of the society, people don’t believe in god for themoral quality as well as to the people to be masters of our fate. Liu yuxi is a completeatheist. Liu yuxi has always believed that Confucianism as the people’s political life ideal,so liu yuxi’s view of nature and man is standing on the position of Confucian, deny destinyand ghosts and gods, emphasizes humanist, therefore, the religious idea of liu yuxi isfundamentally, the existence of god is in the service of its "cultivate one’s morality, terms,governing the country, flat world" political ideal. Liu yuxi liu yuxi from buddhist view, inorder to show the value the social education function of Buddhism and to the person’s mindcultivation, and formed his unique based on Confucianism, Buddhism into Confucianismthought characteristic. Liu yuxi is dialectical view of Taoism, pay attention to the externalform of the fairy magic for the criticism, he advocated the inner spiritual realm of freedom,in order to see the liu yuxi criticism and absorption of Taoist thought, especially the freespirit of zhuang zi’s influence on liu yuxi.From liu yuxi’s religious religious thought and practice of the ancient literati, first ofall, the scholars of religion as well as the pursuit of life value, namely the Confucian"culture, loyal to the patriotic" life ideal; Taoist natural outlook on life, indifferent to fameand wealth; Buddhist life and death, as otherwise, director of the outlook on life. Secondly,literati religion is from concerning the composition of his philosophy of mind, the heart of the Chinese ancient scholars pay attention to the religious theory on its cultivation of bodyand mind, is the reflect of the people to his philosophical wisdom. Moreover, the religiousidea of literati as well as from worldly wise to explore the ways of survival is the peoplefor their own survival circumstances of life to explore and thinking. Finally came to theconclusion that the religious idea of liu yuxi is in Tang Chaoru three thought under theinfluence of Buddhism and Taoism in the form, he will be as a kind of philosophicalaccomplishment and understanding of religion, the way to cultivate one’s moralityConfucian state and, on behalf of the religion of ancient literati.
Keywords/Search Tags:Liu Yuxi, religious view, literati, Religious Beliefs, religious praxis
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