宋代僧人对儒家经学的认识与回应——从释智圆和释契嵩谈起

儒家经学是儒学思想的核心和基础,是儒家学说中最具有持久生命力的内容,在中国古代学术中居于重要地位.宋代是中国古代经学变革的重要时期.在宋学形成前后,释智圆、释契嵩站在佛教立场上,对儒家经学给予了探索.他们不拘泥于古圣贤章句的束缚,以"微言大义"的举动和读经致用的态度,走出了宋代经学发展的第一步,昭示了宋代经学复兴的时代特色和发展趋势.

The Buddhist Monks' Understanding and Answers to Confucian Classics Learnig in Song Dynasty

The confucian classics learning was the core and basis of the confucianism,the contents of the most sustained life-force in the doctrine of the confucianists,and played important role in the systematic learning of the ancient China.The Song Dynasty was an important period of the confucian classics learning's reform in the ancient China.Shizhiyuan and Shiqiesong,upholding the stand of Buddhism,had explored the confucian classics learning in the formation of the Song Learning before and after.They had not sticked to the trammels of sentences and phrases of the sages and men of virtue,and had walked out the first step of development of confucian classics learning in Song Dynasty,and had declared to the developmental trends and feature of the times of the confucian classics learning's rejuvention in Song Dynasty.