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A study on Ouyang Jingwu’s Harmonious Philosophy with Confucianism and Buddhism

ShimChangAe 1

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Ouyang Jingwu (1871-1943), who was the spearhead of Lay Buddhist Buddhism in modern China, first mastered Cheng-zhu learning and was absorbed in Lu and Wang’s learning, and later applied himself to Buddhist studies research and conducted Buddhist education in his thirties. He experienced a series of historical events and felt the need of Confucius’ real mind, and finally reconciled thoughts of Confucianism and Buddhism in his latter years. Ouyang theorized his thoughts, and defined the meaning of Inner Teachings as achieving perfect clarity, called Nirvana, through internal cultivation, and Outer Teachings as the others. According to his definition, Buddhist studies is Inner Teachings in the most upper-level position and Confucianism is Outer Teachings in the Bodhisattva position. He also interpreted Buddhism as the noumenon aspect and Confucianism as function, and considered the two to be inseparable. On the one hand he explained the view that Confucianism and Buddhism were the same in terms of fundamental reason in his interpretation of the scriptures of Confucianism such as Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Analects, and The Book of Changes. On the other hand, he made an attempt to reconcile Confucianism and Buddhism from the perspective that Confucianism and Buddhism were the same but different in scale. It is possible to suggest that Ouyang’s way of reconciling Confucianism and Buddhism was somewhat biased, because he reinterpreted or broadly interpreted the main concepts of Confucianism in his own way. But given that Ouyang’s belief that the development of Confucius’ real mind was the way of saving the country at the time emerged as a dearest wish of this intellectual, it can be said that his thought has great historical significance.

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