摘要
莲花崇拜(或莲花信仰)为佛教早期崇拜之一。佛教借助莲花形象以宣传佛教理论,借助莲花生物特征以阐述其义理,提供了引导教内僧众和教外信众追求的理想目标。佛教和其它宗教一样,要适应新的社会发展形势,认真审视其发展轨迹,挖掘其基本理论中与当代社会现实有价值的精神内核,与中国传统文化和现实社会主流文化实现新一轮的融合。
Lotus worship（or Lotus belief） was one of the earliest worship of Buddhism.The image of lotus helped Buddhist to propagandize their theories.With the help of organism features of lotus,the Buddhist expounded its doctrine to make lotus become the theory of counsel and enlighten people.It shaped Buddhism into the basic imagine of ethical religion.Like other religion,Buddhism should suit to new social development situation,look carefully at its development,excavate the valuable spirit core of contemporary society reality in order to carry out the new fusion of Chinese traditional culture and the main stream culture of real society.
出处
《湖南人文科技学院学报》
2011年第2期31-34,共4页
Journal of Hunan University of Humanities,Science and Technology
关键词
莲花崇拜
佛教
融合
lotus
worship
Buddhism
fusion
