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Commentary: Yang Renshan, a Living Bodhisattva
Yang was born in an eminent family of Confucian literati in Anhui Province in 1837, two years before the outbreak of the Opium War. He witnessed the years of turmoil in nineteenth century China: the Taiping Rebellion and subsequent series of China’s defeats and humiliations. When he was twenty-seven years old, his father died of illness and the following year Yang Renshan himself contracted the plague. After his recovery in Hangzhou, he continued to suffer from depression. By chance, he read two texts entitled Dacheng Qixin Lun (Mahāyānśraddhotpāda Śāstra; Mahayana Treatise on the Awakening of Faith) and Lengyan Jing (Śūraṅgama Sūtra).
The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana and Tiantai Thought in the Sung Dynasty
The Influence of Mahayana on Buddhadasa's Thought
從四聖諦到四弘誓願──論大小乘佛教融和的開展
佛陀證悟的宇宙真理是「苦、集、滅、道」，由苦、集、滅、道而展開廣大無邊的佛法。然而這只是佛陀就真理的本體而設定的義理層次，經過了世間的實踐，就發展成為「四弘誓願」： 所謂苦諦，因為眾生多苦，所以發願「眾生無邊誓願度」； 所謂集諦，因為苦由業集，所以發願「煩惱無盡誓願斷」； 所謂道諦，為令眾生向道，所以發願「法門無量誓願學」； 所謂滅諦，為使眾生證果，所以發願「佛道無上誓願成」。
