A Study On Hui Yuan’s Argumentation Prose

Hui Yuan is a famous monk in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he had written a lot during his lifetime. According to records there are more than fifty articles, and the argumentation prose can be regarded as the very characteristics of a class. This paper based on Hui Yuan’s four argumentation prose which is now extant, introducing“Samana disrespect King theory”, ”Samana bare theory”, “Retribution theory”, “The three type of retribution theory” as the object of study. By using literature method,text analysis method and comprehensive analysis method, systematically analysis on the creation of Hui Yuan and the characteristics of argumentation. The main contents of this paper are as follows:The introduction of the article mainly combs the research of Hui Yuan in the academic circles and the research on the theory of the argumentation prose. On Huiyuan’s research mainly concentrated in Buddhist thought, historiography research include his friendship, his position in the history of Chinese Buddhism and so on.From the literary point of view, there are only some of the articles analysis his literary creation, the study of Hui Yuan’s poetry and the aesthetic thought is one of them, and the study on the argumentation prose is few.The first chapter of this paper mainly discusses the life and literary creation of Hui Yuan. Hui Yuan’s life can be divided into three stages: one is thirteen years old travel in Xuchang and Luoyang area, learning the classics of Confucianism and Taoism, the second is at the age of 21 follow Dao An, learning the Buddhist classics,three is settling in Lushan at his 45 years old, in there he studied the Buddhadharma,poly acts preaching, carry forward Buddhism. Hui Yuan’s literary creation mainly has the poem, the inscription, the preface, the theory and so on, according to the literary style to make one classification, and limit the argumentation prose.The second chapter of this paper mainly discusses the creative reasons of the argumentation prose of Hui Yuan. First of all, starting from the social and historical background at that time, the confused environment, frequent wars, sharpcontradictions, and metaphysician are fond of idle talk and debate the atmosphere are discussed. Secondly, relate and analyze the specific reason and purpose of writing the article.In the third chapter, mainly analyzes the argument content of Hui Yuan’s argumentation prose. The debate on Buddhist thought, namely to form as God is immortal and karma thoughts recognition and publicity; the second is the debate about the relationship between the monarchy and church, discussion on eliminating samana debate and political view; the third is the debate on the contradiction between the teachings of Buddhism and Confucianism, the monk’s filial piety and disobedient problem discussion and samana bare is appropriate etiquette argument.The last chapter discuss the artistic characteristics of Hui Yuan’s argumentation prose from three aspects. First is the study of Hui Yuan on the argumentative thinking,namely "found", emphasizing "seeking" and advancing layers; followed by the research of Hui Yuan on the debating skills, namely empathy, use of metaphor, allusive,combined with the practice. Finally, grasp the the argumentative style of Hui Yuan on the whole, that is the form of ask, varied sentence patterns and plain style.In the conclusion part of the article, first comparing the argumentation prose of Hui Yuan and the other polemicist in that period, be sure of his position, next to the main content and innovation points of this thesis and reiterate them. Finally, to point out the inadequacies.