| Water and Trees Proverbs is a very significant magnum opus in the Tibetan Proverbs History and still widely spread up to this day which was written by the 3rd Gung thang Tulku named Gung thang bstan pa’i sgron me who is the 21st abbot of the Labrang Tashikyil Monastery which is the most important monastery of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism in Amdo which located at Xiahe County in Gansu. Throughout the whole paper, while at the same time these proverbs explained the ethical and moral standards of secular and the value orientation for Buddhist monks and monasteries under the scope of Buddhist Thoughts system. In these 245 proverbs, the water part amounts to 139, and the trees part amounts to 106. After the overall research on the papers,there’re two parts can be found, one is the Rules in the word which described the model of a Buddhist ideal social, another is the Rules over the word which described the stages of the path to enlightenment in Buddhism. Especially when explained the Rules over the word which described the stages of the path to enlightenment in Buddhism, the consecution of proverbs is similar to Lamrim Chenmo which wrriten by Tsongkhapa who is the founder of the Gelug school in Tibetan Buddhism. In Lamrim Chenmo there are three different ways, that is The Way of Modest Scope, The Way of Medium Scope, and The Way of High Scope.This proverbs shows the respect of wisdom, the encourage of study, and the summon of struggle, and also characters of some important idea in religion life such as Three Dharma Mudra, Four Noble Truths, Six Paramita,Vajrayana and so on. The Buddhist thoughts of Water and Trees Proverbs, include both ethical and moral standards of secular and the value orientation for Buddhist monks and monasteries under the scope of Buddhist Thoughts system, but also include all impermanent tainted Jieku Buddhist life value judgments, but also to show the body of origin and comply with the law of causality and focus Hetuvidya Buddhist understanding method logic. "Mizuki motto" contains rich connotation of the traditional virtues of the inheritance and development worth nowadays, but when you can not ignore such a feudal era Buddhist scholars creative works, such as attitudes and stereotypes descent born curing problem does not comply modern ethics and values, should rational analysis and be abandoned. |
