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A Study of the Influence of Buddhism and Taoism on Wang Shou-ren's in His Early Life

Qingchun Chen

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The influence of Buddhism and Taoism was almost inescapable to many philosophers of the Song and Ming Dynasties. It is also a significant subject in studies of Wang Shou-ren's Philosophy. Centering on the notions of foreknowledge and inner illumination which Wang Shou-ren derived from his meditation in Yang-ming Cavern, this essay analyzes the shifts of his attention from body to mind, from knowledge to Tao, from Taoism to Buddhism, and from the Taoist pursuit for good health to an enlightened understanding of the universe, and thereby points out that those shifts constituted a philosophical turn from the mental experience of the Taoist-Buddhist nihility to the Confucianist spiritual transcendence through a moral way of daily life, which prepared the way for his development of a theoretic trinity of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

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The influence of Buddhism and Taoism was almost inescapable to many philosophers of the Song and Ming Dynasties. It is also a significant subject in studies of Wang Shou-ren's Philosophy. Centering on the notions of foreknowledge and inner illumination which Wang Shou-ren derived from his meditation in Yang-ming Cavern, this essay analyzes the shifts of his attention from body to mind, from knowledge to Tao, from Taoism to Buddhism, and from the Taoist pursuit for good health to an enlightened understanding of the universe, and thereby points out that those shifts constituted a philosophical turn from the mental experience of the Taoist-Buddhist nihility to the Confucianist spiritual transcendence through a moral way of daily life, which prepared the way for his development of a theoretic trinity of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

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The influence of Buddhism and Taoism was almost inescapable to many philosophers of the Song and Ming Dynasties. It is also a significant subject in studies of Wang Shou-ren's Philosophy. Centering on the notions of foreknowledge and inner illumination which Wang Shou-ren derived from his meditation in Yang-ming Cavern, this essay analyzes the shifts of his attention from body to mind, from knowledge to Tao, from Taoism to Buddhism, and from the Taoist pursuit for good health to an enlightened understanding of the universe, and thereby points out that those shifts constituted a philosophical turn from the mental experience of the Taoist-Buddhist nihility to the Confucianist spiritual transcendence through a moral way of daily life, which prepared the way for his development of a theoretic trinity of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.

Key concepts: Taoism, Buddhism, Philosophy, Transcendence (philosophy), Meditation, Subject (documents), Theology, Religious studies

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