『대승기신론』의 훈습과 상키야 철학의 전변의 비교

Abstract

The Awakening of Faith in the Mah āy āna (大乘起信論) and the hindu S āṃ khya Philosophy explain the structure of the mind according to the theories of the Perfuming (薰習, Skt. v āsan ā ) and the Transformation of Consciousness (轉變, Skt. pari ṇā ma ) each other. But there seems to be the high level of similarities between the two concepts. The Awakening of F a it h i n t h e M a hāy āna thinks that the Avidy ā (無明) ‘ignorance’ gets colored with the tath ātā (眞如) ‘suchness’, thus the world of birth and death is developed. Similarly, the Sāṃkhya Philosophy also reckons, “when the one isolation (Skt. kaivalya , 獨存), Puru ṣa , is close to another invisible (Skt. avyakta , 未顯現) isloation, Prakṛti (nature), the world is created.” In the development of the mind, the A w a k e n i n g o f F a it h i n t h e Mah āy āna details the development process into the three subtle (Skt. s ūk ṣma ) and the six crude (Skt. sth ūla ) things (三細六麤). In comparison, the Sāṃkhya Philosophy also describes that the development of the mind is the transformed process from buddhi ‘individual intellect’. Therefore we can find the similarity between two philosophical systems. On the other hand, even though the mind is developed in a similar way, there is a difference between two thought systems. the one is based on the cause contains effect theory (Skt. hetu phala v āda ) and another on the result in the cause (Skt. sat-k ārya ). When one recognize the difference between both philosophical systems, then one can find the difference between the appearance of salvation for all living things and the settlement at the absolute isolation.