论佛教对唐代传奇小说的影响

佛教传入中土后与中国文学积极融合,作为人生具象的小说也融入了斑斑佛迹。在佛教盛行的唐代,出现了以寺院为活动场景、以僧众为表现人物、以世俗化为倾向的传奇小说。分析佛教因素在传奇小说中的投射印痕可以看出,佛教在艺术手法上,包括题材扩大、人物塑造、结构创新以及创作思想等方面对中国小说产生的深远影响。而佛教思想在士大夫阶层的渗透,也极大地影响了文人的创作和国人的文化性格。

The Impact of Buddhism on Legend Fiction in the Tang Dynasty

After Buddhism spreads to China and accepted by the Chinese literature positively.The novel which as the life embodiment has also been impacted by the Buddhism.In Tang Dynasty,appeared a kind of literary tales fiction,which takes the temple as the scene,and the monk as the character,changes into the secular tendency.By analyzing the Buddhism factor in the literary tales,we may see the Buddhism has the profound influence on the narrative and rhetoric,including the expansion of theme,the characterization and the structure innovation,as well as the literature concept of Chinese novel.The acceptance of Buddhism in intelligentsia and literati stratum,also had affected the Chinese writer's creation and Chinese's cultural disposition enormously.