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Chan Buddhism in Wilderness and the Buddhist Tourism
Author(s)
CHEN Jian, ZHANG Yi
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2024.02.001
Affiliation(s)
Shandong University, Jinan, China
ABSTRACT
The culture of landscape
constitutes one of the vital characteristics of Chinese culture, in which, Chan
Buddhism is a typical kind of Buddhist culture expressed by the natural
objects. Chinese Buddhism, represented by Chan School, is interpreted by the
beautiful natural scenery, therefore it is closely related to the tourism from
the ancient time. However, this link is to defend Buddhist tourism, which is
inevitably criticized, since the secularization of sacred Buddhism, though
Buddhist tourism is beneficial for life, society, economy, and Buddhism itself.
But this sort of criticism is a misunderstanding of Chinese Buddhism since that
Chinese Buddhism absorbs Zhuang Zi’s thought that “the ultimate truth (道) is in shit (屎尿)”,
so that it purports to the sacred dimension which is overlapped by the secular
aspect. For example, the short poems composed by masters in Chan School “The
Buddhist dharma is in this world, so that the enlightenment could not be
realized outside of the human world”, “where there is bamboo and flower, there
is dharma and prajna”, are the best way to express this kind of divine concept,
moreover, Buddhist tourism is an effective practice
to allocate this divine connotation.
KEYWORDS
wilderness, Chan Buddhism, Buddhism in mountain forests, Buddhist tourism, nature
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