The Impact of Buddhism on Legend Fiction in the Tang Dynasty

After Buddhism spreads to China and accepted by the Chinese literature positively.The novel which as the life embodiment has also been impacted by the Buddhism.In Tang Dynasty,appeared a kind of literary tales fiction,which takes the temple as the scene,and the monk as the character,changes into the secular tendency.By analyzing the Buddhism factor in the literary tales,we may see the Buddhism has the profound influence on the narrative and rhetoric,including the expansion of theme,the characterization and the structure innovation,as well as the literature concept of Chinese novel.The acceptance of Buddhism in intelligentsia and literati stratum,also had affected the Chinese writer's creation and Chinese's cultural disposition enormously.