Influence of the Three Treatises of Buddhism on the TaoistTwofold Mystery School in the Sui and Tang Dynasties
The School of Marxism, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, P.R. China.
Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, P.R. China.
The School of Marxism, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, P.R. China.
Abstract
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism maintained independent developmental trends. However, there was a significant shift in their interaction, moving from external functional complementation to internal ideological integration in terms of thinking patterns, ideological elements, and linguistic concepts. This transformation from external to internal has also promoted the great integration of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism based on their psychological tendencies. In this context, this article explores the profound influence of the Three Treatises of Buddhism on the Taoist Twofold Mystery School, both in the application of linguistic concepts and in the discourse of thought. After Master Ji Zang(吉藏大师), the Three Treatises of Buddhism had little new development, but the Taoist Twofold Mystery School, which had infiltrated the Three Treatises, can be regarded as another aspect of the development of the Three Treatises.
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Three Treatises (三论宗); Ji Zang; Twofold Mystery School (重玄学); Sui and Tang DynastiesCopyright Notice & License:
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