Probing into Liang Shuming's Thoughts of Buddhist Culture Thoughts

Liang Shuming's cultural ideology of Buddhism is based on the Buddhist philosophy of consciousness. Through the analysis of consciousness, he established ontology and epistemdogy of his own which he latter applied as theoretcal fowndation and method in evaluationg the three categories of western, Chinese and lndian culture. Apart from that, Liang Shuming made an essential distinction in nature between Buddhist philosophy and western philosophy. He held the view that the former lies in seeking to know nothing but the later know all. Therefore, Buddhist philosophy and western philosophy are two basically different kinds of philosophy. Liang Shuming upheld Buddhist consciousness for the purpose of publicizing intuitionism because he believed that intuition is the only means to help understand the universal noumenon.