神会の菩薩戒思想について

抄録

Parallelisms between the early stage of Chars Buddhism (禅宗) and the Mahayana-Bodhisattva-sila Movement (大乗菩薩戒運動) have been pointed out. Northern Song Chan's (北宗) Wushen Fangbian men (無生方便門), Shenhui's Platform-Words (壇語), the Lidai fabao ji and the Dunhuang Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (六祖壇経)" 〈Mind-ground-Formless-sila (心地無相戒)〉 record the giving and receiving of the Mahayana-Bodhisattva-CIla according to the rites prescribed in the Fanwang jing (梵網経) since the Fourth Patriarch Daoxin (四祖道信). That Shenhui's Platform Words also has the character of a ritual for conferring the bodhisattvasila has been pointed out. However, the rite in the Platform Words was seen as having a transient character belonging to traditional sila studies preceding the Sixth Patriarch Huineng's (六祖慧能) Mind-ground-Formless-sila (心地無相戒). But by this report, I want to try to reexamine a conventional opinion about Shenhui's (神會) Bodhisattva-sila thought and its historic positioning, taking as a clue a record of a sermon found in the beginning part of his Platform Words.