The Ontological Disputes between Confucianism and Buddhism in the Song Dynasty
The ontological disputes between Confucianism and Buddhism in the Song Dynasty can be examined from two aspects:"Emptiness and Reality"as well as"Emptiness and Principle"."Emptiness and Reality"was mainly discussed among Confucianists of the Northern Song Dynasty including Er Cheng and Zhang Zai.With the gradual progress of Neo-Confucianism,many of its disciples,with Zhuxi as the most prominent representative,began to attack Buddhism from the ontological perspective,refuting the emptiness advocated by Buddhism by means of the reality of the heavenly principle.How to understand the relationship between the real world and the noumenon constitutes a fundamental theme in Zhu Xi's discussion on Reality and Emptiness,and also results in a most basic as well as intense contradiction between Confucianism and Buddhism.
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