The Keys to the Rise, Decline and Transformation of Indian Buddhism

Philosophy and Culture 33 (12):3-28 (2006)
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In the course of the spread of Buddhism, the teachings of the people who only pass for the teachings and ideas focused on the cognitive differences of appearance, and no so-called Dharma "ideological evolution" because "the law of nature" if the change or ideological content has been different, you can not call it Buddhism, because the law is not really. Thus, the real history of Buddhism, the Buddha's teachings alive, just ask the abbot of the existence of the phenomenon of the spreading process and the history of the rise and fall, and it does not matter the "evolution of ideas." Because "the law of the actual" with "universal, constant, unique" character, and it does not matter the nature of the evolution of the phenomenon of thinking, and only the well-known supporter of various positive and false teachings to understand the difference between the depth of Guangxia; Therefore, the "history of Buddhism," the correct definition of the phrase, asking only for a limited lifetime of human action "events, with the phenomenon of surface", but not referential "law of the nature of the surface." Among them, the "events, with the phenomenon of surface" is mainly various man-made doctrine of the "teachings of the heritage and Facilities, popular literature records and explanation, meaning law permits the solution of right and wrong", so the history of Buddhism in the various existing claim interpretation, it may have already implied cause a lot of time and space is limited by the unavoidable errors exist. "Dharma" is a Buddhist Sakyamuni Buddha achieved, the evidence according to their conscious Cengage within the curtain out of law education, there is described the origin of the universe and life of truth, and how to say the holy knowledge of this goal, it Buddhism is a real "over the judicial system, Gen III, for all living beings" without variation. Although the spread of Buddhism in the world, due to Ogata Young each other for the "law" meaning, according to their differences in root preference, physical evidence level, Hui Xie different degree, so the law assembled by the paper as well as the same word expressed in Chapters out of the content, they have different emphases and different, so set up a list of these factions, the original meaning of harmony with the blind method of Tathagatagarbha Buddhist groups will gradually split, resulting in the appearance of the Buddhist doctrine of the diversity of the organization and development. As the Buddhist creation and establishment of the Buddha for the universe, the truth of life of the intellectual sense after the completion of teachings, so it's fragrant students at the beginning, inception, French justice has been successful, thinking it has been established, the theory has been complete, non- has been finalized; it is not the actual occurrence of the growth process of recording the Buddha, Sakyamuni Buddha's life is not thinking of development and evolution of the record, more than a religious ideology and theory of the development process or its part. If standing in the spirit of humanity in terms of spiritual development of the macro position, the ideological content of Buddhism can be said that the ultimate capacity of the contents of the human mind. Buddha Ching content, the development of spiritual religion in India level, is the most mature, state of mind in the development of the human spirit, but also to achieve the most satisfactory peak. Therefore, Buddhism is not any religious or philosophical world a part of the development of religious thought is not a halfway point, but all religions are human, spiritual, philosophy eventually prevail. During the circulation of Buddhism, there are merely the differences among Buddhist preachers in their understandings and emphases about dharma but never the so-called "changes in the thought" of Buddha-dharma, for it should not be called "Buddha-dharma" as soon as any changes occur to the "nature of dharma" or the "content of dharma" because this is no longer the ultimate dharma. In consequence, the "history of Buddhism" is indeed a history of the circulation process as well as the rise and decline of Buddha-dharma; there is never a so-called "history of the evolution of Buddhist thought." The "reality of dharma" is "universal, consistent, one and only;" there isn't any of the so- called evolution in the nature of Buddhist thought but simply different preachers' right or wrong and broad or narrow understandings about dharma instead. As a result, to define it correctly, the "history of Buddhism" is confined to the manmade "phenomenal aspect of things "rather than the" essential aspect of dharma; "the" phenomenal aspect of things "refers largely to the manmade" handing-down and constitution of dharma, records of documents, and right / wrong explications about the meanings of dharma "by all the different doctrines. Thus, the claims made by these different doctrines about the history of Buddhism might have implicated many mistakes that are unavoidable due to the limits of time and place. As the teachings developed by Sakyamuni after he reached buddha-mãrga, "Buddha- dharma "is the explication about the origin of all creatures in the universe and the truth of life as well as the explanation about the holy knowledge of how to achieve such a goal. Hence, the true Buddha-dharma is unchanged" over the entire dharma , throughout the past, present and future, and in all living creatures, "even though Buddhist preachers formed various sects and cults during the spread of Buddhism due to the different emphases in their interpretations about the texts of dharma , and both the meanings of Tathagatagarbha and the Buddhist communities that had been originally united gradually split up and caused the pluralistic development of the Buddhist organizations and dogma presentments. The birth and founding of Buddhism is Buddha's teachings after he comprehended the truth about the universe and life, As early as it was born and founded, the meanings of Buddhism were already well rounded, its thoughts already established, its theories completed, and its rights or wrongs decided, so the history of Buddhism is neither a record of Buddha's growth, nor a chronicle of the evolution of Sakyamuni's thought, let alone any part of the development of the thought and theory of a religion. Looking at the big picture of the spiritual development of mankind, it is fair to say that the thought of Buddhism is the ultimate content of the their spiritual capacities. The sambodha of Buddha is the mellowest in terms of the spiritual development of Indian religions and also the most perfect regarding the development of the spirits of mankind. Therefore, Buddhism is neither a part of any religion or philosophy in the world nor a staging post of the development process of any religion, but rather the resting home of all religions, spiritualities and philosophical thoughts of mankind

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