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On Wang Chuanshan's Idea of Xian Liang

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Wang Chuanshan makes friends with the Buddhist monks more in all his life,follows the line of reasoning of thinkers in Song and Ming dynasty and incorporates into Buddhism,Confucianism and Taoism on his thought and compose The sketch of FaXiang school.On epistemology and methodology,he absorbs FaXiangs analysis on Shi,(consciousness) and discussion of the knowing course in order to stand out the true important function of XianLiang(intuition) to know self-nature.Although these works just annotates the different notions of the school of FaXiang and a reproduction of Hetu-vidya Logic,it is not the need of establishing the system of philosophy and the politics theoretical direction,not even the practice of cultivation,but its function of taking over from the past and setting a new course for the future performed meritorious deeds can never be neglected indeed.

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Wang Chuanshan makes friends with the Buddhist monks more in all his life,follows the line of reasoning of thinkers in Song and Ming dynasty and incorporates into Buddhism,Confucianism and Taoism on his thought and compose The sketch of FaXiang school.On epistemology and methodology,he absorbs FaXiangs analysis on Shi,(consciousness) and discussion of the knowing course in order to stand out the true important function of XianLiang(intuition) to know self-nature.Although these works just annotates the different notions of the school of FaXiang and a reproduction of Hetu-vidya Logic,it is not the need of establishing the system of philosophy and the politics theoretical direction,not even the practice of cultivation,but its function of taking over from the past and setting a new course for the future performed meritorious deeds can never be neglected indeed.

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Wang Chuanshan makes friends with the Buddhist monks more in all his life,follows the line of reasoning of thinkers in Song and Ming dynasty and incorporates into Buddhism,Confucianism and Taoism on his thought and compose The sketch of FaXiang school.On epistemology and methodology,he absorbs FaXiangs analysis on Shi,(consciousness) and discussion of the knowing course in order to stand out the true important function of XianLiang(intuition) to know self-nature.Although these works just annotates the different notions of the school of FaXiang and a reproduction of Hetu-vidya Logic,it is not the need of establishing the system of philosophy and the politics theoretical direction,not even the practice of cultivation,but its function of taking over from the past and setting a new course for the future performed meritorious deeds can never be neglected indeed.

Key concepts: Buddhism, Taoism, Sketch, Intuition, Epistemology, Philosophy, Politics, Consciousness

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