A Study of Influences on World View and Human View through the Diffusion of Buddhism in the East Asia

本研究旨在探讨佛教在东亚尤其是中国和日本的传播对各民族的世界观和各国的人生观产生了怎样的影响和变化。佛教接受对东亚文化领域影响最大的是，人们通过佛教因果论和生死轮回思想，对生死观、宿命观、世界观有了更深更厚的思考，具有自然作为无机环境世界的和谐意识。虽然在佛教传入之前，东亚文化领域就已经存在天人合一的精神倾向，但佛教的认识论世界观进一步推动了这一趋势，可以说，世界与人类的平等思想在东亚由此确立。因此，可以说，佛教使东亚许多民族的世界观和人生观更加深刻。

This research aimed what influences and changes were exerted on the view of the world of each race, and the human view in the countries through the diffusion of Buddhism in the East Asia especially China and Japan.The outline of an examination result is as follows ;The biggest influence that Buddhism acceptance did in the East Asia cultural sphere is that peoples have had the deeper and thicker thought of the view of life and death, fate view and the world view through Buddhistic theory of causation and the thought of life-and-death samsara, and had the sense of the harmony of the nature as the inorganic environmental world.Although the spiritualtendency of the unification with nature existed in the East Asia cultural sphere also before the Buddhism import, the Buddhistic epistemology-view of the world promoted it further, and it can be said that equality thought between the world and human beings was established in East Asia by that. So it can be said that Buddhism makes still deeper the view of the world and the human view in many East Asia races.