- 著者
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柿沼 陽平
- 出版者
- 東洋文庫
- 雑誌
- 東洋学報 = Toyo Gakuho (ISSN:03869067)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.104, no.2, pp.1-30, 2022-09-16
In ancient China, there was a long-standing emphasis on hairdressing and aversion to baldness of the head. The Classic of Filial Piety (Xiaojing 孝經) states that harming the body and cutting hair are “unfilial.” However, with the arrival of Buddhism, Buddhists who encouraged baldness and shaving emerged. How, then, did Buddhists encourage hair loss based on their doctrine? This paper aims to examine the Buddhist shaving advocacy during the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties. The origins of the Indian Buddhist defense of shaving are long-established, especially in the Milinda Pañha. In China, the culture of shaving was introduced along with Buddhism. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, a Chinese translation of the Buddhist scriptures compiled in the Wu Kingdom explained the importance of shaving. Among the pseudo-sutras compiled independently in China, the Lihuolun 理惑論 was an early exponent of the importance of shaving hair for the Huaxia people. The Lihuolun, citing precedents from the Huaxia world, argued for the importance of shaving. This attempted to exploit contradictions in traditional Chinese culture, and the way of arguments was carried on by later generations. However, a different line of argument emerged in the later period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Buddhist shaving advocacy at the time was not monolithic, with individual Buddhist monks confronting shaving critics separately. Many of them intentionally quoted precedents from the Huaxia world in their defense of shaving, which was a characteristic of Buddhist shaving advocacy at the time. This is not to say that the criticism of Buddhist shaving disappeared. The Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou promoted the suppression of Buddhism. Although he accepted the study of Buddhism in the Tongdao Guan 通道觀 temple, he disapproved of shaving. Shi Dao’an 釋道安 opposed this, and Fan Pukuang 樊普曠 tried to persuade the Emperor Wu, but the situation did not change, and even the Emperor Tianyuan (Tianyuan huangdi 天元皇帝), who tried to revive Buddhism, disapproved of shaving. It was challenging to break the criticism of Buddhist shaving based on the Xiaojing during the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties. Thus, with the insistence of Buddhists at the time on shaving their hair, we can see a point of conflict between traditional Chinese culture and Buddhist culture.