Qian Wenzhong,

 【Description】 Links for some interest in Buddhism, another harvest this year is to read Professor Qian Wenzhong spoke of . the second half is basically seen as Moderator: Professor Shen finished listening to curious, I feel very mysterious, Professor Chin can say a few words with us before? (Qian Wenzhong laugh: a moment when I say the speech.) Well, we took the suspense of stay for a while. Next, we heard Professor Qian Wenzhong talk about all my predecessors, Ma, tell her initiate is thrown in front of three scholars to three jewels, my of Academic Steering Marui Fang) You treasure say my brother is very cute inside, very beautiful, that's nice, but monk. (audience laughs) because both the Po Lin sister or brother, sister, how Aibo, the total does not love to eat him like a female monster level. (audience laughs) week the teacher said, how and how these people, these not be compared to hero, but who better than us, but it? (audience laughs) But hey, we all know, this could only joke, because it is not comparable.
in four masterpieces, the is a very special one. special where? If by now increasingly abandoned the dichotomy of literary theory, then the first three novels have largely been classified as a work of realism, with the exception of the Department of classified as a Romantic work. but go inside the romantic, you say monk romantic? not romantic. Skeleton Demon romantic? again romance would not say she was romantic. (audience laughs) So hard to give a rise of security, called positive romanticism. wonderful work! Church where? matter how many of the advantages of our nation, our culture, there are many valuable assets, no doubt, I am afraid that is not our rich imagination, the special advantages of the Han nationality and Han nationality is a reality, in order to the reality of a nation known for, but the novel should be a fantasy about a fantasy novel.

look at how the novel? a lot of friends may think this is a Buddhist novel, more and more people now say, br> talk about the monk. Xuanzang of course, is a monk, but in His purpose is very clear after all the fairy mmm, all full of a wonderful and solemn ideal: to live forever official told us to eat.
it exposed the fact that it is not a Buddhist novel. Buddhism is bitter about . born bitter, bitter mother is also suffering they do not; (audience laughs) always bound to the old, no matter how frustrating, have to eat supplements old; (audience laughs) old, after a certain disease, even if no disease of young , old and sick even after the last escape is always a . you is always keep up what you complain, hate, do not like people meet. for example, It is up; (audience laughs) you want to buy a house, sold out; you want to sell it, there is no market price.
Therefore, Buddhism stresses to Nirvana. Nirvana has a lot of very complicated to explain, in fact most popular explanation is that no matter how, for example, Xiu Cui my next life, and (audience laughter) This is my life has been a very, very good. (audience laughter) But believe it may be reborn as a cockroach, (audience laughs) living as a mosquito or a living as an orange, an apple, which it badly. So I do not reincarnation of the Buddhist said.
Marui Fang: Do you mean to say that Cui is the cockroaches, then? (audience laughs) < br> No, I said he was audience laughs) ?
personnel, that you did not bring a gift, there is no meaning of meaning. (operands money like, the audience laughter) monk was very honest and said no, we have come all the way to the Ku Haha. (audience laughs ) did not ah, that line took go through.
in the process of crossing the river, was broken up by. found not a word above is by no words. is equivalent to the point means that you did not mean I have been not to you. anxious to dig Xuanzang ah, the East West did not dig anything. Monkey little sense of justice, than the golden cudgel out. (audience laughs) of course do not want to cut Pig pig ears . (audience laughs) are not willing to. Last Xuanzang to their jobs to Ananda and Kasyapa's struggle sessions, how can you do so, and ruined our reputation of Buddhism, right? how can the Tathagata say? like it, oh Yo, what did you do, you see they Burongyia , two days before we go to the Gluten home side the practice was something only taken three liters of gold grains. If, you see, so little money are not enough children and grandchildren to eat. You should give them stuff. so honest (referring to the Han Chinese, not including other nations), we do not have a fixed single faith. Our faith is very heterogeneous, and we believe we are willing to believe only the things that we believe can bring us only good things. just as there people to seek a Buddha, Oh, bless me tomorrow, the stock rose 500 points. (audience laughs) rose, Oh, I'll burn incense. If the next day down 300 points, another day to find another temple to burn incense. (full Field laughs) This reflects the complex and our faith is not firm, there is a lack of belief in awe.
description of the illusory figure, reflecting the Han Chinese on the life of the cause, the pursuit of a complex mentality
reading of the novel process, how do we get rid of the previous read-set? I thought that since the novel is a fantasy novel, is a fully display our unique among the Han culture, the success of the imagination works, we must first note that it is illusory. I have still without saying a word, tell your teacher, Shen, three, and that also the three countries, number. (audience laughs)
We talk about the fantasy characters. Tang Seng Sa mentoring four of which are false. Pig, The Pig If there is such a person living in this world, that have become nation's pets, our national treasures may not be a giant panda but Pig. (audience laughs) Shahe Shang is not, the Monkey King is false, these three are illusory, is made out of.
course Now I am a bit puzzled, because in the previous two days, my students got a call saying there was a place to find that I talk to them, , we have here is the home of the Monkey King. (audience laughs) So, now I did not find out, the Monkey King is true. (audience laughs)
three illusory figures reflect what we National Psychology? We think about it, the three men who is the most easy way out? is the Pig. monk favorite actually Pig. Pig is more comfortable, not do any work, the burden of the main challenges is the Shahe Shang , fighting mainly to play the Monkey King, he points to look for fruit, eat and sleep while. (audience laughs) The fat monk is always very considerate of students, what to say as long as the Pig, Monkey is generally believed, such a lazy, with a small smart In the opportunistic people, very popular in the novel actually loved his master. What does this show?
So, when a reporter asked me four of them in this election one mentoring, the most willing to be who I say of course, Pig friends. Pig was great! (audience laughs) This choice reflects a national attitude, in fact, we Han Chinese are still very much the way the heart of a living style (life). cool, irresponsible What benefits of each. (audience laughs) We also consider that Shahe Shang, what hard work is his dry, what are his mold down, what good can he finally pulled, but this man in the monk's eyes honestly basically no. (audience laughs)
Monkey King is certainly a very capable person, mischievous, have the ability, but not tame. monk like him? I'm afraid not. If we calmly read Monkey and Pig dialogue, brought the dialogue with the monk and the Monkey King to compare, no doubt, the Monkey King is not so get Monkey's favor. but monk is very clear, as Kuan Yin told him, you have to westbound Method, this person help you help. this person capable ah, can give you to create performance, let you through suffering, can help you ward off evil. But I tell you clearly that this man is not good management, (audience laughs) well pipe how to do? give you a set of rules and regulations. What system? straitjacket. (audience laughs)
described as such a figure reflects our Han Chinese on the life and career, the pursuit of a complex state of mind. The ideal state we could I hope to have the first magic of the Monkey King, but do not straitjacket; I hope Shahe Shang's body, but do not have his burden askew; I hope Pig delicious food, but I do not want his body fat. (audience laughs)
Xuanzang true history so that people feel very strange, very strange result is that his fantasy, and even entertainment
slowly This is a class of illusory figures. there is a class, which does exist is a historical figure, was intentionally or unintentionally illusory. such as Xuanzang, Xuanzang is definitely yes, but the question is, if we want to know how he was illusory, we must first know the truth He is like. I want a say in the simplest terms, Xuan Zang, a decline of elite government officials came from a family. He ancestry have a high official position, are provincial and ministerial level cadres, and his father was a county-level groups The level cadres. but he grew by Confucianism and Buddhism, traditional upbringing. In the occasion of Sui and Tang dynasties, Buddhism is flourishing, he grew to have a very lofty ideal, so we say he is the door release Wei device is released Muni Buddha studied under a very great man will be National Cheng Kung University. He is in pursuit of the truth of his heart, the truth is in his heart of Buddhism.
in order to pursue such a Buddhism, a doctrine, a kind of truth , he did illegal immigration. Xuanzang is not received official permission to go abroad, and the Tang Dynasty is locked at that time the country was closed to the border. and Xuanzang alone, without any support in the case, completely unaware of successful continue to pursue the case or the truth that makes Xuan Zang from the numerous exchanges between the characters stand out from the history.
Second, during his study in India, studying at the time the world's highest institution of the Buddhist Nalanda mmm temple. He studied Buddhism at that time almost all the world can learn the knowledge, essentially becoming a Buddhist doctrine was encyclopedic character. and in this there fore, is a specialization rather than closed, open and somewhat defensive attitude of learning.
Third, after studying in India, Xuanzang returned to the Tang Dynasty, of course, this may what you will say that this strange, foreign students in China, the United States today there are several non- back to the United States? because it was the Tang Dynasty is the world's most developed, one of the most powerful dynasty, but we do not forget to Xuan Zang is illegal to leave China, is a violation of the ban out of the country, he came back filled with a species of very high expectations, I went to seek the Dharma in India, I really want to return in triumph at the Grand Buddha, but he did not know what awaited him back.
Fourth, Emperor Xuan Zang did return to secular life invited , to help him govern the country, and Xuan Zang no, what reasons? Xuan Zang said only two words, I was willing to , individualistic spirit. single-way street, my power of one person alone, to implement what I believe, and I Zhuimu Buddhist Dharma. Xuanzang and we both Han Chinese intellectual tradition is completely different, particularly where he ? Ma, mentioned earlier, in that time intellectuals were not only does not serve the secular position, he was not even the Buddhist community are not served in senior positions. to the status of Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty at the time, when a Cien Temple next big chair. and large Jionji Northwest temple today is, of course, is also a landmark in Xi'an, but it is a new temple in the Tang Dynasty, there is no history to speak of. On this point to allow us a lot of people , including Are you going ah? you can not add points to GDP ah? (audience laughs) Xuanzang very strange, so we found not in the , right monk classes, big explain the world are Monk program, Second Vice President, General President of the Buddhist Association of Datang.
another point, returned to Chang'an in 645 AD after Xuanzang to fully indulge in some very odd jobs to do. The first translation of the 1335 volume he Buddhist, he led a lot of assistants translation, training a large number of monks only. Xuanzang less approach things, He did not appear in the grand occasion of Buddhism, and focusing instead on doing that.
Also it is strange that he was in the translation Buddhist scriptures, the sum of many theories, including the most famous is the Liuzizhenyan In fact, it is interesting, is ;, people feel more mysterious, a little bit about this person that you Daoxing. You read every day, )
then there is a China Wong Lo Kat (audience laughs). such as whiskey, we do not, no one has it translated into Chinese Shikumen. and , this is not translated. such as Heart Sutra, laity trouble right here, where the quest for longevity war fame, and I do not play with you. but if you turn this through to become a read.
so he has a theory, he has a very well organized, this is true Xuan Zang. But at the time of our cultural traditions, which many people think he is very strange why a monk to do this?
The sixth point is very important, and we think you have such good relations with the emperor, the emperor also have great respect for you, you should always figure something, or something you should ask. Xuanzang on this issue has shown there are two very strange not understood by everyone.
a connection, he told the emperor asked that two things, first asked the Buddha in the road before. Tang Dynasty, Confucian and Buddhist religious order is the Tao, the Tang Dynasty Emperor, surnamed Li, and this name Lee is of unknown origin, the emperor's ancestors who in the end, nobody had a clue, when the Emperor, I felt that he should find at a traditional Han Chinese ancestry, could not find a radical and find a father, because I surnamed Li Well . So the first row of the Tang Dynasty a Taoist. Xuanzang expressed the hope that before the Buddha in the road, naturally the emperor rebuffed. because no matter how good your relationship with the emperor, this national event I do not joke with you. Second, Xuanzang made repealing a law: crime and the common people the same family of monks and nuns, monks and nuns that the total of the privileges it a bit. also dismissed by the emperor. so we can see what Xuanzang never mention their own requirements.
another aspect, with the Emperor Xuan Zang relationship to the then Buddhists do not understand. Han Buddhism, a rule is very clear, called thing. And when a lot of Xuanzang in the meaning of the emperor did not listen. Some views of the emperor is right, such as the emperor told Xuanzang brought back so many Sanskrit translation of Buddhist scriptures, you master the translation is good, but you can not put us here The first translation is not, ah, we have here the first version you can put off, later translated ah. Emperor where the words wrong? little wrong at all. And do not listen to Xuan Zang, who think it is important to choose their own turn, so it caused a lot of Xuanzang's translation is actually turned to heavy in this, and many have no time to turn his important.
Xuanzang such a figure in traditional Chinese culture which, we think he is too strange, The results put him too strange fantasy and slowly his entertainment. to the end of the Xuan Zang in the novel is nothing more than the image will do two things, first thing is to cry and the second was a student of magic spell, other What he will not develop later in which we work, Xuan Zang to thoroughly into a cry into a bag or people who are nagging, nagging to the Monkey King anxious wanted to hit him. (full Field laugh) Stephen Chow's movie to play to the extreme on this.
so in the things, such as our attitude toward life, our attitude toward the truth, we pursue the ideal attitude of the process, how we had a full life in the world attitudes, we should go beyond the level of the secular attitude.