Abstract

Buddhism in India, "III" and the karma theory is that the Chinese people's religious ideas and beliefs have a significant impact theory. However, the Chinese Buddhist theory of karma is no longer the original sense of the Indian Buddhist thought, a mix of large number of Chinese traditional thinking. This paper examines the III Indian Buddhist concept of karma on the soul of China on the integration of thought and poetic justice process, and trying to Chinese Buddhism Buddhist theory to explain the process of change and development. In the Indian Buddhism, the doctrines of "the three periods " and "retribution for sin " is the significant influential theory to Chinese's religious thought and faith. But the Chinese Buddhism's theory of retribution for good and evil is already not any more the original Indian Buddhistical thought, and it is blended with massive Chinese traditional thoughts. This article inspects the fusion process between the doctrines of the three periods, of the retribution for sin in Indian Buddhism, and the doctrines of the retribution for good and evil, of the psyche in the Chinese traditional thought, and attempts through the evolutional sequence and theoretical path of Buddhist thoughts in China to explain the change and the development of Buddhism's theory