| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 應用中國文學系碩士班 === 98 === Abstract
Zen, a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism in China, spread in Vietnam around the sixth century AD. It had been a long period of history. It also had a great influence to the history and culture of Vietnam. However, the earlier Buddhist sects in Vietnam were founded by foreigners, such as branch Vinitaruci created by Vintaruci who lived in south Tanzu, a Tang Dynasty monk who founded a branch of Wuyan, and Master Chaotang, a Yun-men Zen monk founded a branch of Chaotang in North Song Dynasty. When the master Zunlin founded the Zunlin Zen School, he broke a tradition that Zen sects always were founded by foreigners. Also, it showed that Buddhism was already rooted in Vietnam, and people could accept it. At the same time, because of master Zulin was an emperor, branch of Zulin had a great development and became a leading Vietnamese Buddhism. It also had a great help for the country development. Besides, it played a very important role in history and development of Buddhism in Vietnam. However, the research is related to master Zulin, Zulin Zen, and the comprehensive history of Buddhism. Zulin Zen is only one part of research. This thesis tries to look back on the history of branch of Zulin Zen, and discusses the origin, feature and thoughts of Zulin Zen and master Zulin. Also, it researches the changes after Chinese Zen spread to south, and supplements the history of Vietnam Buddhism.
This paper is divided into five parts:
Chapter 1 ─ Introduction: This chapter describes the research motive, purpose, scope, method, and bibliography review.
Chapter 2 ─ The origin of the three branches of Zen in Vietnam. It briefly describes the origin of Zulin Zen, sects before Zulin Zen, including Vinitaruci, Wuyan, and Chaotang.
Chapter 3 ─ The background of the foundation of Zulin. This chapter states the development and background of Zen at the prior period in Chen Dynasty. Besides, it describes the life and writings of Zenzong Chen, the father of Zulin.
Chapter 4 ─ The thoughts and the origin of master Zulin. This chapter studies the thoughts and connotations of master Zulin. The main idea is the theory of Buddhism, the theory of no heart and no thinking, going to the secular world, and the origin and features of Zulin.
Chapter 5 ─ In this chapter, it summarize all chapters and make a conclusion.
Keywords: Zulin Zen, master Zulin, Zenzong Chen, the Zen sects of Vietnam
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