There are so many different opinions for scholars about whether it is the novel to advocate Buddhism which wrote by Zhi tui Yan. Moreover, the research is more laying stress on the documents of textual research. We need the further way to investigate the deep meaning of this book, included the think of karma, the analysis of the story and the character and value of the book. Therefore, the thesis will base on the research of predecessors to supply, breakthrough and make the research of get the complete appearance.
This thesis totally separate from seven chapters as below:
Chapter One: Introduction. Describe the motive, the state of play of the research, the version of and the scope of the research.
Chapter Two: The career of Zhi tui Yan’s life. Describe the some important things in the history of Yan’s life and outline the career life which work in the dynasty of Liang, Bei Qi, Pei Chou, Sun and give a rough introduction of Zhi tui Yan’s books.
Chapter Three: The construct for Zhi tui Yan’s of karma’s idea. To interpret the source of compounding the think or belief for Zhi tui Yan’s of karma’s idea from the book of . It will help us base on that to see the connotation of the karma and the position of this book.
Chapter Four: The Zhi tui Yan’s Quoting catalog. To check the source of , and follow the examples of documents, we’ll know the process of quoting by Zhi tui Yan whether he add or delete examples without subjective feeling. Could we compress any modes if he did? Also, could we explain why he did that though these modes?
Chapter Five: The treat of ’s contents (I): Hatred and Soul. Through the modes of “Wrong Reason”, “Ghost’s Appear”, we can get the full analysis for the .
Chapter Six: The treat of ’s contents (II): Retribution and Punishment. Through the modes of “The Way Of Karma”, “ The End Of Karma”, we can get the full analysis for the .
Chapter Seven: Conclusion. We’ll do the whole conclusion and elaboration for the book whose position and value in the history of China’s Novel.
