n.死因学
The content and purport of thanatology is briefly outlined at first, and then, the characteristic features of Buddhist theories on death are discussed. 佛教死亡观是对儒道为主体的中国传统死亡观的承接和拓展；
Keywords thanatology;Chinese Buddhism;death concept;Confucianism;Taoism;Reincarnation;death-transcendence; 死亡学;中国佛教;死亡观;儒家;道家;生死视域;轮回;死亡超越;
There are two research purposes of this article: on the one hand, to make clear with which approaches interpenetrates thanatology into sociology and reversed; 本文的主要目的，一方面在厘清这两大研究领域相互渗透的路径；
forensic thanatology 法医死因学
