漢文化中的隱淨土思想 -- 兼論中土接受佛教淨土信仰的思想基礎=The Idea of Implicit Pure Land in Han Culture —— Concurrently on the Ideological Basis of China Accepting Buddhist Pure Land Belief
Since Buddhism was introduced in Han and Western Han Dynasty, it has experienced long process of becoming Chinese-characterized, and eventually, along with confucianism and Taoism, it is known as the three Chinese traditional religons. The spread, survival and development of Buddhist thought in China has a solid social ideological foundation, which has been mostly discussed by predecessors. Whereas, the ideological foundation that the Buddhist pure land thought which was introduced into China and accepted by Chinese is the very thought of implicit pure land in China. The implicit pure land though t embodies the communication of Han culture with the pure land belief in westen sense, the explorat ion of the Hans into the western mysterious world and the implicit pure land thought in the confucian culture.