＂Affection＂ has been positively recognized and praised in the classical novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Zhi Yan Zhai made the remarks of Jia Baoyu's nature of mind as ＂thoughtfulness.＂ Having witnessed eight sufferings in life in the Jia family, the suffering of birth, the suffering of old age, the suffering of sickness, the suffering of death, the suffering of being apart from those you love, the suffering of being together with those you hate, the suffering of not obtaining what you want, and the suffering of the raging blaze of the five skandhas, Jia has raised his unlimited sympathy for human nature to treat women and servants equally. He bears the sins he has committed in the Jia family and finally takes one step over the edge of cliff to become a monk. Jia's course of Dao seeking in ultimate concern of life is extremely similar to that of Prince Siddhāttha of India. In this essay, Jia Baoyu is the research focus from the perspective of Buddhist literature that highlights the thematic thoughts of Dream of the Red Chamber through Prince Siddhartha's course of Dao seeking as reference. It is Jia's experience of ＂eight sufferings in life,＂ the suffering of birth, the suffering of old age, the suffering of sickness, the suffering of death, the suffering of being apart from those you love, the suffering of being together with those you hate, the suffering of not obtaining what you want, and the suffering of the raging blaze of the five skandhas. Jia has been through the pain of bustling and flourishing world and the vicissitudes of life to realize the predestined love in the world of mortals. Eventually, it is a state of ＂it is ultimately a dream and the dreamer wakes＂ and a course of ＂take on step over the edge of cliff＂ and ＂full awareness of Dao through affection＂ in the end.
