Impacts on recent China made by Buddhism

Buddhism is a mysterious concept when I was young for it was considered as a kind of superstition. And superstition made conflicts with what I’ve learnt in the school. It’s just like making friends, we don’t know him, but we think him a bad guy just by his appearance and when we know him well we’ll think we’re actually wrong. Things just go as this. I changed my mind the time I stepped into the world of Buddhism. From then I knew Buddhism opposed superstition and they were quite different in essence. Inversely, it had much in common with the scientific socialism and communism, “Happy in extreme and harmony everywhere”, is just like the society of communism described by Karl Marx. As a result, I organized this thesis and put my mind here supported by some reasons listed below.

Firstly, Buddhism makes contribution to the moral construction.

Buddhism always plays a crucial role in cleaning up people’s minds since it came to. It is of great help to the moral construction which is an important factor for the constructions of harmonious society. As it advocated, “Never do evils and do good deeds, purify your soul by yourself and such is Buddhism”, it means that you must behavior right and get rid of the wrong minds. Just imagine that if each one spared no efforts to lend a hand to others, each one protects the public properties as their own, each one respects their neighbors as an old friend and each one takes the rules more seriously, a harmonious society will be made and there will be less crime and more happiness, less corruption and more devotion, less conflict and more harmony. That’s just what we are looking for.

In a word, accompanying the fast developing of the economy, it is necessary to promote cultural and ideological progress and Buddhism, as good means, just can help.

Secondly，Buddhism is a remarkable power of Chinese cultural.

Buddhism cultural is a gem of Chinese traditional cultural and it bears incredible cultural value. For thousand of years, Buddhism, along with the Taoism and Confucianism, made the extensive and profound Chinese cultural. And it achieved great progress in painting, sculpture, calligraphy, architecture, literature and medicine, and so forth.

Based on such progress, tourism got leaping development and many places of interest spring up like the bamboo shoots after a spring rain. Tourism goes ahead, and related industries followed, transportation, restaurants, architecture and so on. Therefore, the Buddhism indirectly promotes the economy. At the same time, Buddhism’s spread enhanced the cultural exchange with other country. It opens a window for us to know more and broad our horizon in some fields. If you are proud of our famous culture, you’ll appreciate the contribution from Buddhism.

Thirdly, people will benefit from the Buddhism on health.

Generally, we think health has 2 important parts, physiology and psychology. In modern days, more and more people focus on the psychology health since so much stress turns up and many people suffer from lots of psychology problems. Luckily, what Buddhism told us can become a kind of psychology treatment towards these problems because it emphasizes a peaceful mind, no desires, no quarrels and no cruelty. So, we may build a harmony world in our mind.

On the other hand, Buddhism proposed vegetarianism for daily diet. It’s a good suggestion to modern diet habits for more and more people are getting fond of the food from KFC or McDonald‘s, especially a lot of children included. People intake too much meat and too less vegetables, too much wine and too less tea, too much smoking and too less fresh breeding.  Thereafter many “richness disease” appeared one after another. Buddhism’s vegetarianism just makes people keep away from those bad habits and take in much more vitamins. Here there’s a funny experiment performed by Shandong Qi Ru University, they selected some white rabbits with the same weight and divided them into 2 groups, one group fed with inferior food such as green vegetables and Tofu and the other with fatty or lean meat, steam cake and so on. The result shows that after 3 months rabbits from group one weighed up to 184 kilogram and grew smooth hair looking quite healthy. In contrast, weight of rabbits from group two is only 146 kilogram and their hair looks ugly. They just breed 3 generations with a lean one on the 3^rd generation, compared with group one which propagated 5 healthy generations. So it is reasonable to guess that vegetables are also effective nutrition to us. And facts showed again that it’s to take more vegetables into our diet that keep us a fit body.

Last but not least, what Buddhism looks after is the same with our socialism.

Buddha said, “Why such a world is called peer land? That’s because people in this world have no pains except happiness.” “In the peer land there are treasure here and there……”. What these told us is quite consistent with the idealism of the socialism. In Karl Marx’s description, in the communism society the economy gets greatly developments and people can get what they need as they like, this is the so-called “peer land” in Buddhism. And now, our government is making every effort to bring about a great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and to lead all the people to win common prosperities, in order to build up a well-off society. Just believe that a “peer land” is not far away from us.

To conclusion, Buddhism, as a kind of religion, once played a significant role in the history. Many Buddhists were from different nations and they live happily together, to work together, to create together, to exchange their wisdom together. During so long a history period, different cultures from different nations fused together. Undoubtedly, Buddhism is a shining star in the broad and profound Chinese culture and it witnessed the development of Chinese culture in different historical periods. Meanwhile, it accumulated plenty of experiences and obtained great achievements on many fields, painting, architecture, calligraphy, medicine, art, etc.. These are valuable treasures our ancestor left us.

Buddhism created not only a cultural wonder, but also a political and economical helper. It teaches people to do good deeds and not to kill livings. As a result, people live peacefully with each other and they eat more vegetables to avoid killing. What it turns out to be is a beauty soul and a health body. A healthy psychology and a fit physiology make everyone work joyfully and live happily. In fact, it means harmony, harmonious relationship, harmonious families, harmonious nations, harmonious society, and even a harmonious world. It is just harmony that makes the society more beautiful!