华东师范大学(哲学社会科学版) ›› 2019, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (6): 91-97.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2019.06.010

• 佛教研究 • 上一篇    下一篇

民间佛教的学理诠释与中国佛教史的再认识

李利安   

  1. 西北大学玄奘研究院 西安, 710069
  • 出版日期:2019-11-15 发布日期:2019-11-25
  • 作者简介:李利安,西北大学玄奘研究院教授,博士生导师,西安(710069)。
  • 基金资助:
    国家社科基金重点项目"宋元明清时期中国汉地观音信仰研究"(项目编号:14AZJ002)。

Academic Interpretation of Folk Buddhism and a New Understanding of the History of Chinese Buddhism

LI Li-an   

  • Online:2019-11-15 Published:2019-11-25

摘要: 长期以来,我们对中国佛教史的认识一直受制于精英阶层对经典的学理诠释,而忽视了民间阶层对经典的实践运用。在这两种不同社会阶层的不同经典对待中,经典意趣呈现出重大分野,并开启出不同的发展路径。随着权威的退场与信仰的浸入,民间社会完全颠覆了经典诠释的本有体系,形成与精英佛教彼此呼应的民间佛教,从而塑成中国佛教雅俗共存的内在结构。我们不但可以从经典诠释及其实践变异角度对这种现象进行解释,更可以借鉴经典诠释的理路对这种信仰型佛教进行学理性诠释,并藉此获得对中国佛教史的重新认识。

关键词: 经典诠释, 民间佛教, 雅俗关系, 信仰哲学

Abstract: The understanding of the history of Chinese Buddhism has always been restricted by elite scholars' academic interpretation of classics, while the folk class' practical application of classics has been ignored. Due to the different ways of using and explaining classics of these two different social strata, there have formed different meanings of classics and different development paths as well. With the absence of authority and the immersion of faith, people at the grassroot level have completely subverted the original system of classical interpretation and invented so-called folk Buddhism. The interaction between elite Buddhism and folk Buddhism and the co-existence of elegance and vulgarity has shaped the internal structure of Chinese Buddhism. We may not only explain this phenomenon from the perspective of classical interpretation and its practical variation, but also interpret academically the belief-type Buddhism via classical interpreting approaches so as to gain a new understanding of the history of Chinese Buddhism.

Key words: classical interpretation, folk Buddhist, elegance and vulgarity, philosophy of faith