Why Buddhism is also a philosophy, and in what ways?

The world outlook theory is a generalization and summary of knowledge of nature and social knowledge.

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Buddhist language. Only Buddhism has the greatest and roundest wisdom, that is, there is no equal consciousness. This kind of wisdom can really know all the truth and everything.

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Buddhist philosophy has the characteristics of general philosophy. Especially in the Diamond Sutra, the Buddha's dialectical thought is simple and clear, and the word philosophy is everywhere.

Religious philosophy should first explain "what is true or true" in the state of human existence, and then explain how to realize this "truth". In short, it is the process from theory to practice. Buddhist philosophy includes these two steps.

In China's Buddhist philosophy, human nature or Buddha nature is the real source and the subjective and objective basis. There is a passage in Volume 51 of Hua Yan Jing of Dafang Guangfo and Article 37-2 of Tathagata Appearance: "There is no Tathagata wisdom, no sentient beings, but it is proved by delusion; If you leave your delusion, you will be wise, natural and unimpeded. "

Religion only explains or solves the relationship between individual and self, individual and nature, and individual and society. Therefore, with the theory of Buddha nature as the core, the three dimensions of self, nature and society are interrelated, and there are Buddhist life, world view and practice theory.

Buddhist speculation is first of all "human perceptual activity", which is regarded as a kind of practice (religious practice) and sees its great subjective initiative; Another meaning of this "perceptual activity" is that any thought is not just a pure conceptual consciousness in people's minds, but a reflection of social existence. Philosophy such as Zen and Tiantai has great subjectivity, and the theory of mind and nature of Buddhist philosophy has greatly exerted the principle of subjective initiative.

Such as the general and different phases (general and individual) of Zen thought. Taking the self-mind, self-nature and self-nature of Zen as an example, the unity of opposites of Huineng is the source of religious liberation. There are five ontologies (purity, wisdom, truth, emptiness and invisibility) and four functionalities (including tolerance, introspection, reflexivity and three-body Buddha) in the Tanjing. Huineng's self-nature has the meaning of noumenon and transcendence, which embodies the spirit of "capitalized person"

The background of China's Buddhist philosophy system is to describe the unique Chinese-style and China-style spiritual life in China society since ancient times. Buddhism and philosophy permeate each other here.