Zhu Dao Sheng (English: Zhu Dao Sheng)

Japanese: 竺道生 - じくどうしょう（英語表記）Zhú dào shēng

355?-434
He is also known as Daosheng. He was a Buddhist philosopher who played a central role in the fundamental turning point of Chinese thought history from the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Liu Song Dynasty. His original surname was from Julu (Hebei Province), Wei. He was a disciple of Zhu Fattu (320-387), a fellow disciple of Shakya Daoan, and studied under Huiyuan, Sanghadeva, and Kumarajiva (Kumarajiva) in Chang'an. He had deep academic exchanges with Sengzhao and Xie Lingyun, who were disciples of Kumarajiva. In response to the fundamental question that the Chinese intellectual world was concerned with at the time, "Can all human beings become saints?", he introduced the distinction between the true and the mundane in Kumarajiva's philosophy and presented the theory of sudden enlightenment and enlightenment, and also immediately accepted the theory of Buddha nature in the 'Nilsutra' handed down by Faxian, and presented the theory of enlightenment and enlightenment.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

355？‐434
道生でも知られる。中国思想史の根本的な転換期である東晋末期から劉宋期において中心的役割を果たした仏教哲学者。本姓は魏，鉅鹿(河北省)の人。釈道安の同門竺法汰(320‐387)の弟子で，廬山にあった慧遠（えおん），僧伽提婆，長安のクマーラジーバ(鳩摩羅什)などのもとで勉学した。クマーラジーバ門下の僧肇（そうちよう）らや謝霊運との深い学問的交流があった。当時の中国思想界が問題にした〈あらゆる人間が聖人になることができるか〉という根本問題に対し，クマーラジーバ哲学の真俗二諦の区別を導入して〈頓悟成仏説〉などを提出し，また法顕伝来の《泥洹経》の仏性論をただちに受け入れて〈闡提（せんだい）成仏説〉を提出して肯定的に答えた。

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