Tied to Confucianism
3 Benefits
Requiting debt to parents
Good action, accumulate merit, karma
Part of Dharma
"One can never repay 2 people, mother and father" -Buddha
4 Things can be done towards requiting debts
Establish faith, morality, liberality, wisdom
Parents should be respected as gods, teachers.
3 (sacrificial) fires that should be maintained
Parents
Family
Merit-Field
Spending Wealth
Parents included in each list of ways
Cosmology
Respect and honor increases lifespans
Mahayana
Four kinds of filiality
requiting debts of parents
debts to all sentient beings
to the triple gem
to the king
Requit debts to all sentient beings
Within samsara, at some point in past we all related
Chinese Buddhism
Confucianism, filial piety root of all virtue, stem from which grows all moral teaching
Chinese monks criticized for leaving home, cutting hair
Collected/translated sutras for defense
Ullambana Sutra = story of Mahamuadgalyayana who rescued his mother from realm of hungry ghosts
Overall, filial piety practiced and included in founding teachings, and influenced society at large