【简介】
   
    "Cherish one's own beauty, respect other's beauty, and when both   beauties are respected and cherished, the world will become one", said   Fei Xiaotong, a famous Chinese sociologist at a celebration party in honor of   his eightieth birthday about thirty years ago. In a time of growing interest   in intercultural communication today, these words sound especially wise and   far-sighted. Translation, as one of the most important means for cultural   communication, is usually done into one's mother tongue from other languages   by native translators. This largely guarantees the quality of translated   text, so far as the linguistic readability is concerned. However, this method   implies a one-sidedness in correspondence, as only the translator's   "respect for other's beauty" is concerned, regardless, though not   completely, of how the local people look upon and cherish their own beauty.   It should be compensated by translations on the other way, that is, works   selected, interpreted, and translated by the local people themselves into   languages other than their own. This approach may go directly against the   prevalent views in modern translation theories but, in my opinion, is worthy   of practicing. It is perhaps an even more effective way to bring about   successful communication in cultures, and the beauties of the world can   really be shared by the world's people. It is with such understanding that   the Shanghai Foreign Languages Education Press is organizing a new series of   books, entitled Readings of Chinese Culture, to introduce Chinese culture,   past and present, to the world, with works selected and translated by the   Chinese scholars and translators.
   
    The series will cover a wide range of writings including but not restricted   to works of different literary genres. For the first batch, we are glad to   provide three books of essays and one book of short stories, all written by   authors of the 20th century. They will be continued by a batch of serious   academic writings on premodern Chinese classics in philosophy, literature,   and historiography, written by influential scholars of our time. Later, we   will offer more books on classical Chinese drama, classical Chinese poetry,   etc.
   
    Some of the books in the series have been published before, but they have   been revised and rearranged for the new purpose to meet the current needs of   broader readers. We are looking forward to hearing comments and suggestions   on the series for future improvement.
        

【目录】
   
    Introduction
   
    Chapter One
    Translation, Introduction and Composition of the Buddhist Sutras
     1. The History of Translation and   Exposition of The Tripitaka in Chinese
       1) The Phase of Accumulation
       2) The Phase of Formation
       3) The Phase of Systemization of   the Structure
       4) The Phase of the Systematic   Unity
     2. The Block-Printing and Formation   of The Tripitaka in Chinese
     3. The Catalogues and Structure of   The Tripitaka in Chinese
   
    Chapter Two
    Exposition of the Buddhist Classics and the Faith
     1. The Breathing Sutra and the   Beginning of Acceptance of the Buddhist Faith
     2. The Prajna Sutra and the   Metaphysics of the Wei and Jin Dynasties
     3. The Nirvana Sutra and the Nirvana   Faith in the Southern and Northern Dynasties
     4. The Worship of "the Dharma   Treasure" and Its Social Infiltration
       1) The Imperial Politics and The   Tripitaka
       2) Moral Concern and The   Tripitaka
       3) Cultural Faith and The   Tripitaka
   
    Chapter Three
    The Chinese Buddhist Writings and Sinicization of Buddhism
     1. The Combination of the   Translation and Introduction of Buddhist Classics and the Religious   Construction
     2. The Classics as the Foundation   for the Establishment of the Schools and Sects of Chinese Buddhism
     3. The Chinese Buddhist Works and   the Rise and Decline of the Chan Sect
     4. The Buddhist Tradition and the   Prosperity of the Principlism
     5. The Social Characteristics after   the Mergence of Confucianism and Buddhism
   
    Chapter Four
    Changes of the Tradition in the Rise and Fall of Buddha-Nature
     1. The Contradiction Between   "Pursuit of Learning and Inquiry" and "Veneration of   Buddha-Nature"
     2. The Academic Spirit of Xuanzang   of the Tang Dynasty and His Perplexities
     3. The Modern Buddhism Restrained by   the Development of Confucianism
     4. Renaissance of the Study of   Consciousness Only at the End of the Ming Dynasty.
   
    Chapter Five
    The East Spread of the Western Learning and the Modern Buddhism
     1. "Abandonment of Buddhism and   Supplementation of Confucianism" and the Traditional Buddhist Thought   and Standpoint
       1) From a Western Buddhist to a   Western Confucian: Policy Changes of Catholics in the Eastern Spread
       2) The Standpoint of Thought and   Cultural Complex of the Evil- Refuters
     2. The First Conflicts Between   "Catholicism" and "Buddhism"
       1 )Immateriality of the Nature of All   Things and God's Creation of All and the World
       2) The Concept of Soul, and   Retribution and Transmigration
       3) The Doctrine of Enlightenment   and the Theory of the Original Sin
     3. Strange Combination of   Dislocation of Standpoints and Politico-Religious Relation
   
    Chapter Six
    The Buddhist Tradition in the Social Transformation
     1. The Modern Pattern of the   Buddhist Classical Texts
     2. Modern Interpretation of the   Only-Consciousness Philosophy
     3. The Pursuit of Values in the   Modern Society
       1) The Value Backing of the Social   Ideals
       2) The Rational Transcendental   Spirit of Self-Reliance to Attain the Truth
   
    Appendices
     I. Bibliography
     ll. Glossary