The Root of Affection and the Emptiness of Affection——Contrastive Study on the Religious Culture of Various Girls in “The Dream of Red Mansion” and Baoyu's Becoming a Monk

The foundation of Nirvana in Buddhism is Debeixin and Chulixin. With this point, this article aims to discuss the connection and difference between Baoyu's Buddhist meditation and entering into religion and the girls' religious attitude and the Buddhist culture. Alike Xichun's steele of Hinayana Baoyu's entering into religion embodies the frame of reference to the original Buddhism. The Buddhist attitude of most girls in "The Dream of Red Mansion" isn't pure Buddhism, but that Buddhist culture and a kind of bliss a scholar-bureaucrat experiences in meditation.