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Description: Article regarding the moral systems of Confucianism and Buddhism.
Won Buddhism*: A Synthesis of The Moral Systems of Confucianiam And Buddhism Copyright @ 1984 by Dialogue Publishing Company, . P.425 I INTRODUCTION When two moral systems have incompatible moral tenets such as Buddhism and Confucianism, and if a third moral system claims to have integrated the two conflicating moral teachings; serious questions arise on on theoretical and practical grounds. One of the questions is whether the integration is syncretism or synthesis. According to Thomas F. Hoult, "all religious doctrines are syncretic.''(1)If the Nagarjuna asked: If one, keeping the precepts for laymen, can be born in the celestial world, attain the way of Bodhisattva, and realize nirvana, why does one need the precepts for monks? He answered: Although both ways lead to emancipation, there are differences of difficulty and easiness. Laymen have to make a living, which requires various toilsome work. Hence, if one wishes to devote oneself to the Buddha dharma, one's family life will be ruined. However, if one devotes oneself to one's family the way of the Buddha dharma will be neglected. One can neither take nor discard the Way; P.426 to follow the Way properly is difficult. However, if one becomes a monk, one frees oneself from worldly responsibility, anger, and disturbance and finds it easy to devote oneself to practicing the Way.(2) Sosan(c) (1520-1604), a great Korean patriarch, supplied this justification: To become a monk and leave one's family behind is not a trivial matter. The purpose is not to seek for physical ease, nor is it to eat and to be clad luxuriously, nor is it to seek for fame and property. It is to avoid birth and death, to sever worldly passions, to succeed to the wisdom of the Buddha, and to deliver all sentient beings by transcending the three worlds.(3) The moral issue is whether the Buddha dharma can be followed without jettisoning one's filial duty to one's parents. Buddhist monks were subjected to harsh criticism from Neo-Confucian philosophers. T
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