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LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.This article comments on Zhang Ying’s essay “Death and Dying in Chinese Madhyāmika Buddhism”. The central thesis of Zhang’s essay is that Madhyāmika’s non-dualist approach to samsara and nirvana, this world and the other world, and life and death helps narrow the gap between life and death and consequently remove our fear of death, which in turn has important implications for hospice care. However, Zhang did not explain how this non-duality can be put into practice, which is a major defect of Zhang’s paper. And if accessibility to non-duality in practice is not fully explained, people’s confusion around hospice care remains. Moreover, Zhang’s essay fails to explain the implications of Madhyāmika’s non-dualist approach for the practice of hospice care in contemporary society, which Zhang promised to do so.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 147 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.
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張穎博士《大乘中觀哲學的生死觀》一文,通過剖析中觀 學派的「緣起性空觀」,評估它在生死觀念方面的內涵意義, 並且將中觀學的生死觀與中國儒道思想的生死觀作出比較,其 論述線索是清晰的,而文章最終的焦點問題就是:中觀哲學的 空觀思想作為大乘佛教的重要理論,它對現代人面對死亡問題 時,特別是在臨近死亡的最後日子裡(臨終關懷) ,到底有什麽 啓發性的觀點可供參考。
為什麽要做到中觀學所說的「相即不二」並非易事呢?就 連佛教修行者仍然會將「生死」和「涅槃」看成對立呢?作者 對這個關鍵性的問題,並沒有提供直接的回答,取而代之,她 引用了傅偉勳先生的說法對此問題作出回應。傅先生說:「生 死與涅槃是一是二,完全是我們的一念之差:我們如有般若智 或無分別智,則自然會滲(參)透諸法實相,了悟生死與涅槃原 本無二。」
按照作者的思路,傅先生的說法似乎能夠解釋佛教的信仰 者、修行者,為什麽做不到「相即不二」,為什麽仍然將「生 死」和「涅槃」看成對立。箇中原因就是:我們缺乏了般若智 或無分別智,於是無法參透諸法實相。問題是:如何才能作出 一念之轉,得到般若智或無分別智,令人們可以參透諸法實相 呢?是什麽原因令人未能得到般若智而超脫生死呢?中觀學 派條分縷析地詳細闡說一切諸法無有自性、無不是空,而空亦 是假名,故不可執空,中道的空觀離有無之邊見,不壞假名而 說諸法實相;但是從明白「緣起」的內涵至獲得「解脫」的境 界,究竟關鍵在何?從哲學性的緣起觀到實踐性的解脫論,兩 者關係何在?必須通過解答這些問題,我們才可以清晰地呈現 出,中觀學派空觀思想在生死問題上的主要理論特徵。
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張穎博士《大乘中觀哲學的生死觀》一文,通過剖析中觀 學派的「緣起性空觀」,評估它在生死觀念方面的內涵意義, 並且將中觀學的生死觀與中國儒道思想的生死觀作出比較,其 論述線索是清晰的,而文章最終的焦點問題就是:中觀哲學的 空觀思想作為大乘佛教的重要理論,它對現代人面對死亡問題 時,特別是在臨近死亡的最後日子裡(臨終關懷) ,到底有什麽 啓發性的觀點可供參考。 為什麽要做到中觀學所說的「相即不二」並非易事呢?就 連佛教修行者仍然會將「生死」和「涅槃」看成對立呢?作者 對這個關鍵性的問題,並沒有提供直接的回答,取而代之,她 引用了傅偉勳先生的說法對此問題作出回應。傅先生說:「生 死與涅槃是一是二,完全是我們的一念之差:我們如有般若智 或無分別智,則自然會滲(參)透諸法實相,了悟生死與涅槃原 本無二。」
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