동아시아불교의 전개과정에서 神의 표상

Abstract

Chinese Buddhism ran into multiple gods of popular beliefs when it was tarnsmitted to each region in early medieval ages. It built up the thought of the syncretism of gods-Buddhism(the gods-Buddhism amalgamation paradigm). There were some local deities who were seen as converted defenders of the new faith in early medieval China. It was set up in a variety of religious sycretism, the local deities want to dpart from their place, the practice of reciting Buddhist Sutras and the Buddhist ordination. There are a lot of articles about the syncretism in Gaoseng zhuan and Xu gaoseng zhuan. It could be able to figure out the features of the loclal deities in early medieval China. It shows what Chinese people expect to the local deities and what they want to get from the local god in the formation and development of Chinese Buddhism. Understanding the characteristics of the loclal deities as described within these collections is to know the trend of a dual structures of acceptance of Buddhism in Eas-Asia. It could help to reveal the relationships between Buddhism and gods of popular beliefs. The missionary works of Buddhism in early medieval China depend on whether Buddhism disorganized or subsumed the indigenous religion. The local deities of in Gaoseng zhuan and Xu gaoseng zhuan were rather different with two categories and chronological change. There are two categories: the affirmation and the denial for the local deities or the disorganaization and the subsumption, has characterized the differences. This syncretism which has a regular system for the indigenous beliefs and Buddhism as a foreign religion led by Chinese Buddhists. In China, the local deities was devoted to Buddhism and rid itself of agony, move to other places from their palce or remain mountain as gods of the guarian of temples and monks. The articles of the departure of the aboriginal gods from their place are easy to find in Gaoseng zhuan than Xu gaoseng zhuan. The departure of the aboriginal gods from their place has served as a motif the syncretistic fusion of gods and Buudhas as a salvation theory. In Xu gaoseng zhuan, there had more articles about the local deities reruing Buddhist ordination and converting Buddhist guardian of temples and monks than Gaoseng zhuan.