佛教≠唯心主义

Could it be idealism? Many people consider religion idealism. It may be the case in terms of Western religions. As most philosophers in the West are idealists, albeit holding different philosophical positions，they simply identify religion as a category of idealism as well. However, Buddhist thought and idealism are completely different.

佛教是唯心主义吗？很多人认为，宗教是唯心主义，但这应该是针对西方宗教而言的。多数的西方哲学家都是唯心主义者，故而他们也将西方的宗教归入唯心主义的范畴，然而，佛教的思想与唯心主义是全然不同的，所以佛教也不是唯心主义。

Among the four schools of Buddhism, Sarvastivada1 and Sautrantika did not maintain any idealistic viewpoints at all, neither did the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school of the Mahayana tradition. The Yogachara (Consciousness Only) school of Mahayana had a number of sects, of those only one posited a small portion of its views that was somewhat similar to that of idealism.

佛教有四个宗派，其中的经部与一切有部根本就没有唯心的论点，属于大乘的中观也没有唯心的主张，而同属于大乘的唯识宗则包含了许多不同的派别，其中仅有一派所讲的小部份观点与唯心主义有些许相同。

For example，part of the views of Berkeley’s subjective idealism appears to be similar to the central teaching of Yogachara that phenomena exist only as a process of mind. Russell, in the first chapter (Appearance and Reality) of The Problems of Philosophy also analyzed Berkeley’s viewpoints，but found complete refutation of which rather difficult. Still, idealism never quite matches Yogachara in its profundity.

例如，英国的经验唯心主义者贝克莱所主张的部分观点，就与唯识宗所说的：“境由心生，法由心造”表面上有些类似。罗素在《哲学问题》的第一章——“现象与实在”里，也对贝克莱的观点进行了剖析，并从中发现，要完全扳倒贝克莱的主张，还是有相当大的难度。尽管如此，唯心主义的这些见解，也根本达不到佛教唯识宗所探讨的深度。

Aside from this, no other similarity can be identified between idealism and Buddhism.

除此之外，唯心主义与佛教的观点就再也没有任何相同之处了。