论唐宋时期丧葬中的佛事消费习俗

佛事消费习俗是唐宋时期一项重要的丧葬消费习俗,这一习俗的形成受到了社会政治、经济、文化诸因素的影响,与时人的心态观念密不可分;反过来,该习俗又对社会产生了一定的反作用。唐、宋丧葬中的佛事消费习俗既有相通之处,又因佛道二教的发展等原因而各具特色,但总起来看,佛事消费习俗在唐宋时期的丧葬消费习俗中占有重要的地位,在一定程度上体现着人们的生死观、价值认知、社会崇尚等一系列追求倾向和消费倾向,影响后世深远。

The Funeral Buddhist Ceremony Consumption Convention in Tang and Song Dynasty

As an important funeral consumption convention in Tang and Song Dynasty , the formation of Buddhist ceremony consumption was influenced by a lot of factors such as the politics, economy, culture and so on. At the same time, the convention influenced the development of the society. The Buddhist ceremony consumption conventions in Tang and Song Dynasty shared some homology characteristics ,yet they had separate features because of the influence of Buddhism and Taoism. To sum up , Buddhist ceremony consumption played an important role in funeral consumption custom in Tang and Song Dynasty, which in a certain extent reflected people's way of looking at the birth and death, attitude to the world, trends of the times . Buddhist ceremony consumption convention influenced the latter generation profoundly.