二程的佛教观及其思想史意义

程颢、程颐对佛教的认知、理解和评价涉及存有论、道体观、伦理观和生死观等领域。二程对佛教的认知、理解和评价,从儒家的立场看,有其合理性;从佛教的立场看,则表现为相当程度上的对佛教的误读。二程对佛教的认知、理解和评价,含有极具启示价值的信息:第一,佛儒关系讨论旨.趣的转向;第二,偏颇的文化选择态度;第三,对佛教的自觉性误读;第四,对宋明理学中佛儒关系的初步预制。

What Buddhism means to Cheng Brothers: From the Perspective of Intellectual History

Cheng brothers'cognition, comprehension and evaluation of Buddhism involve such fields as existence, ontology, ethics and view of life and death. In view of Confucianism, Cheng brothers' treatment of Buddhism is of some sense, yet when turning to a Buddhist viewpoint, it proves to be a big misreading. Cheng brothers'treatment of Buddhism is illuminating in the following messages:the orientation in the discussion of the Buddhism-Confucianism relationship, biased attitudes in culture-selection, a self-aware misreading of Buddhism, and a presupposition of the Buddhism-Confucianism relationship in the Confucian school of idealist philosophy of the Song and Ming Dynasties.