On Neglignece Concerning the Relationship between I-ching and Buddhism in Researches of the History of Yi Xue ──Concurrently on Master Tai Xu's Thought on I-ching

Yi Xue (I-ching learning) is a protrusive school in the history of traditional Chinese learning. Academic circles have obtained considerable achievements in the study of the history of Yi Xue, but there still exist regeret behind these achievements. That is: in the study of the history of Yi Xue, we neglected to study the correlation between I-ching and Buddhism. The paper points out that we neglected two spheres. At first, we did not study why, in early period when Buddhism spread to China, Buddhism was interlinked with Confucianism and Taoism but not interlinked with Yi Xue at the same time. Secondly, we paid less attention to the large scale of interlinking between I-ching and Buddhism after ho and Ming dynasties. For this reason, this paper sketched the relationship between I and Buddhism neglected by scholars, warned people of the fact of the negligence, and set master Tai Xue's thought on I as example to expound that the relationship between I and Buddhism ought not to be neglected.