육조시대 유자들의 배불론에 관한 연구

Abstract

Since the introduction of Buddhism to China, Confucianism and Buddhism have undergone a number of theoretical changes in the course of debating and turning each other. The controversy and convergence between Confucianism and Buddhism begins at the end of the East Han and ends in the Song(宋)·Meyng(明) Dynasty through the Wei(魏)-Chin(晉), North and South(南北) Dynasties, Sui(隋) and Tang(唐) Dynasties. This paper examines the controversial dispute of the East Chin and North and South Dynasty era, the first major debate between Confucianism and Buddhism, focusing on the discussion of Confucianism. The first issue of the Confucian debate was various, but what was noticed in this paper is that the Buddhist saṃsāra(reincarnation)·retribution, and it is a critique of Confucianism on the theory of immortality. These are the three core doctrines of Chinese Buddhism, and the confrontation between Confucianism and Buddhism surrounding it is presumed to be the opposite difference between the world view and human view of India, represented by Buddhism, and the worldview and human view of Chinese tradition. And these problems include the problems of philosophical theories such as substantiation and epistemology. This paper focuses on Héchéngtiān's(何承天) and Fànjìn's(范縝) Buddhist rejection of Confucians(排佛論), whose Buddhist rejection of Confucians criticizes religious theology as a philosophical theory. The more thorough was Shenmielun(the theory of divine destruction, 神滅論) of Fànjìn's. After Héchéngtiān and Fànjìn, Confucianism and Buddhism enter into a convergence stage, and India's view of the world and humanity are absorbed by theology. The three core tenets of Buddhism persisted in Chinese Buddhism but existed only as a part of religious theology. Based on this fact, I would like to argue that the impact of the India view of the world and humanity on Chinese thought was not so great. This is a preliminary consideration when discussing the mutual influence of Confucianism and Buddhism.