中西文化比较论文 英文

The Comparison of View of Marriage

in Buddhism and Christianity

佛教与基督教中婚姻观的比较

Buddhism is earliest world religion. It appeared in 6th to 5th century BC and was introduced into China on or before the Qin dynasty. Buddhism developed rapidly in China and had a lot of buddhists in early times. Its main doctrines are bitter, set, arc, and road. Buddhists cultivating their mind and doing good things are the feature of Buddhism. For Christianity, it appeared in the first century. It is formed because the jews were suffering and Christianity was their spiritual ballast. Christian doctrines include believing Jesus, the ten commandments, believing immortal and entering paradise after death. Its characteristics are keeping devout to Jesus and believing god bless them.

The two religions both have very pious embracers. They both have their own doctrines and beliefs, and also their own standard and criterion of behavior. In following part, there will be a comparison of view of marriage in Buddhism and Christianity.

There are two kinds of embracers of Buddhism: one is the Buddhists of household, the other is ascetic, that is monk. For the Buddhists of household, their view of marriage is that marriage is the product of cause and effect, and it stem from human nature. They also think that people’s own will should be respected in the marriage. They oppose imposed marriage. Furthermore, they believe in that all living things are equality and against race and class discrimination in marriage. In addition, they think that the couple should be loyal to each other and object to extramarital affair and homosexual. Also, they advocate that the couple should respect each other and they value the stabilization of the family. But they have no objection to divorce. And if the marriage appeared rift, they encourage makin g peace. What’s more, there is a Buddha's marriage, and they swear to Buddha and sing the song of Buddhism in the wedding. But for monks, they are forbidden to have any marriage. They are required to keep the idea that sex is zero and empty.

The view of marriage in Christianity is set up according to Bile. They think that marriage is holy and inviolable. They believe that there are purpose to establish the marriage: the first is the man and woman serve for god together; the second is forming a family and starting a career; the third is carrying on the family line and having the seed of piety. Also, they think the relationship between couple is equal. The wife should be obedient to husband but not the menial obedience. It is respect and help her husband. And the couple should respect and love each other and realize the merit of each other. Christian insist monogamous marriage all the time. In their wedding, the priest will require bride and bridegroom swear that they will loyal to each other and stay together forever no matter what kinds of difficulties they meet with. They object to extramarital affair and bigamous marriage. They believe in that