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Buddhism has affected and evolved for
more than two millennia within China through a process of competing for
influence, cognitive dissonance and syncretizing. It has
multilateral impacts on Chinese historical culture. In literature impact,
its scriptures were translated the stories of life / apologue / Buddhistic
biography into Chinese that cover
the breadth of the original term and it has highly literature value; this
has great impact on creative and affection on posterity novel, dialect and
play. Enrich Buddhistic sutras
and several Buddhist terms and concepts lack provide literary creation of
quantities novels and philosophy.
Buddhism affected on poetries, poems, songs and classical novels in history,
on many ways, such as: Journey to the West (Xi-You-Ji), Romance of
three kingdoms
(San-Guo-Yan-Yi), Creation of the Gods (Fengshen Yanyi), Water Margin (Shui-Hu),The scholars (Ru-Lin Wai-Shih), Dream of the Red Chamber (Hung-Lou Meng).Buddhism becomes one of major structure of China on literature cultivation
(intension). |