英文摘要
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《Ming Bao Ji》, the Chinese novel using Zhi Guai's writing way, written by Tang Lin was classified as a book of ”Buddhistic teaching”. Many scholars hold both positive & negative views toward its contributions to the Chinese Literature, nevertheless its significance can’t be neglected. Not only many essays mentioned 《Ming Bao Ji》, but also lots of theses were conducted to research it. Over the years, under this trendy of new perspectives and methodology about novel came pouring in. Ths book was re-examined and reviewed several times. In addition, more reliable and latest versions of the book have provided us some new clues and directions for re-examination of 《Ming Bao Ji》. In the present study, we adopted new information and knowledge as our base to compare and contrast all important researches as well as lots of different comments on 《Ming Bao Ji》, from past till now depending on the viewpoint of religion. In other words, it was religious faith birth to this article. So we would check 《Ming Bao Ji》, in a practical point of view: ”could it console Buddhistic followers' mind and inspire them to keep the chase of Nirvana?” We also tried to make new categories for those sixty-eight stories in 《Ming Bao Ji》. Did it have deeply meanings related to Buddhistic teaching or special Fa Men is our principles in categorizing. In the article, we compared ordinary causality with special concepts in getting Nirvana. Besides, we quoted examples from 《Ming Bao Ji》 while composing the work and then explored different implications between them and their potential effects on the followers' faith and getting Nirvana. As to the comments aspect of literature which were not the point of this article were rarely mentioned in this article.
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