Kakugibukkyo (English: Gé Yì Fó Jiào)

Japanese: 格義仏教 - かくぎぶっきょう（英語表記）gé yì fó jiào

In the early stages of the acceptance of Buddhism in China, rather than directly studying its original meanings in the original Indian Buddhist texts, the school relied entirely on Chinese translations of Buddhist scriptures that had been converted into a completely different language system with its own cultural foundation, and attempted to understand Buddhism by comparing it to the Chinese classics, which had different philosophical patterns. This was popular from the end of the Western Jin Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420), and reflecting the situation in the intellectual world in which Laozi and Zhuangzi philosophia dominated, the idea of emptiness in the Prajnaparamita Sutra was interpreted using the Laozi and Zhuangzi ideas of nothingness.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国における仏教受容の初期段階に，インド仏教の原典に即して直接その原義を研究するのではなく，独自の文化基盤をもつ全く異種の言語体系に変換された漢訳仏典に全面的に依拠しつつ，思想類型の異なる中国古典との類比において仏教を理解しようとするものを格義仏教という。時代的には西晋末から東晋(317‐420)にかけて盛行し，老荘玄学が主流を占めた思想界の状況を反映して，老荘の〈無〉の思想によって般若経典の〈空〉の思想を解釈することが行われた。

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