| 英文摘要 |
From the perspective of the Tathagatagarbha school, Zongmi, the fifth patriarch of Huayan Buddhism, examined and assimilated Madhyamaka and Yogacara schools, and concluded that both came from the same origin, namely the Tathagatagarbha. Such was Zongmi’s syncretism. Therefore, Zongmi identified Yogacara as the school of diminishing delusions implicitly to cultivate the mind, and Madhyamaka as the school of diminishing discriminations implicitly to follow the middle way, and finally Tathagatagarbha as the school of directly realizing the true mind.
This paper discusses how Zongmi classified three Mahayana systems with his syncretism. Zongmi interpreted both the “emptiness” in Madhyamaka, and the “consummate nature” in Yogacara as the “true self” in Tathagatagarbha. While Yogacara examines all dharmas from the perspective of “eight consciousnesses,” Madhyamaka does this from the perspective of “ultimate emptiness.” Contrary to the above, Tathagatagarbha believes that all defiled, or non-defiled dharmas are manifestations of the true mind. Except for the true mind, all else are illusions. Therefore, three systems of Mahayana differ not in their contents, but rather in their respective approaches, where Yogacara negates nothingness, Madhyamaka denies the reality of all forms, and Tathagatagarbha directly realizes the true mind. |
