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送交者: habpi 于 2005-12-04, 17:41:29:

The first issue here is so unique to China: the disconnection between the religions and the philosophies. Most Taoists didn't practice Taoism; most Buddhists didn't practice Buddhism; the former was by far the worse. Taoist religion was completely separated from Taoism in the history: it was folk superstition or a political tool for grassroot movements. Buddist religion was more like a belief, but molded into a Chinese society that didn't take any serious faith. Say, one would worship Buddha, Lao-tzu and GuanGong the same time.
The second issue is, you cannot really have a good picture without looking at China's history the same time. China had an official ideology since Han dynasty. But Confucianism didn't address issues like cosmology and physiology, that's where Taoism found a surviving niche. Then the ideology inevitably got stale and problematic. So a Buddhism with really religious power could invade in large success. But still, what an ideology does is to pertain to a social structure and block intellectual flows; Buddhism ended up more or less a phylosophical toy for a handful scholars.

Overall, glory was the past. For all religions, good essences should be commonly retained; but their historical contexts are disappearing,and will be gone for good.




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