dc.description.abstract | A Study on the Religious Aspects of Wang Shih-chen(1526-1590AD.)
Abstract
Wang Shih-chen, Suzhou Taicang state person who was the mid-Ming Dynasty literary genre of the main representative personage, the well known historian and dramatist. The biography life time experienced Jiajing, Longqing Wanli three dynasties, were the Ming Dynasty intermediate stage important literary genre representatives and synthesizer, that had a great influence at the time and later
generation.
The methods of this case study are first discussing Wang Shih-chen’s family background, learning and writings, official career history, its character molded to explore ideas and influence mood thought transformation. Then discusses Wang Shih-chen taking the Confucianist as the foundation thought that how gradually to transfer to the Buddhism Taoism, what are the reasons impact of changes in religious thought? What life affected by their experienced? The final detailed analysis of the confluence of the three religions in the context of the environment, how the religious view which Wang Shih-chen ’’s three religions unite is formed? Which one put in the first placed? Is Confucianism? Or Taoist? Or Buddhist? And what is his religious
thought.
To the growth under traditional family culture influence’’s Wang Shih-chen, deep-rooted Confucian ideology, creating their involvement in the world of spirit; The liberal home economics condition, enables Wang Shih-chen can not understand the frustrated human predicament, and gives enters official career’’s advantageous superiority, however because of its arrogant individuality, causes the official career twists and turns to be unceasing. From Wang Shih-chen ’’s earlier work, we may see it obviously that he takes the Confucian thoughts as orthodoxy. Although he has studied under Buddhism, Taoism, but this time his belief in Buddhism, Taoism is somewhat belittling. Wang Shih-chen ’’s religion view for the change, from Jiajing forty-four years (1565) to Longqing six years (1572), these eight years are a crucial period. During this period Wang Shih-chen goes to the capital for his father to dispute the resentment many times, and suffers the sore wound that cannot cure, special mother and good friend Li Panlong died causes its mood murky. A series of sad experience lets Wang Shih-chen turn from Buddhism Taoism in the method of seeking relief,
unlike the early years of the Confucian spirit of involvement in the world.
The Wanli eight year T‘an Yang - tzu event, Wang Shih-chen implicated that symbol of Shih-chen into the religious world, which opened a awareness of Wang Shih-chen inner spirit in his later years. The three religions unite is formed in the religious atmosphere, Wang Shih-chen ’’s religion view was inevitably affected by this culture nurtured. From the three religions of the dispute in the execution of Wang Shih-chen attitude, his teacher T‘an Yang - tzu’s ideas, and interactions between the monk which find out Wang Shih-chen considers the three religions unite is seeking to find its ultimate religious belief in out of the three realms, we can see in the three religions unite, Wang Shih-chen placed the Buddhist faith in the highest. In the religious ideas position, Wang Shih-chen stressed 「sincerity」 seeking, is to highlight the importance of insight thinking, it looks the sincerity also looks the insight, take Zen as main belonging.
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