The Research Of Wang Yangming’s Interjecting Buddhism Into Confucianism

In the society of the Ming Dynasty when the unity of the three religions,which include Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism is the mainstream ideology,it’s the double meaning of ’individual thought history’ and ’macro-intellectual history’ that Wang Yangming interjected Buddhism into Confucianism.At the level of ’the history of individual thoughts’,it is Wang Yangming’s way of analyze and speculate about the exploration of individual thoughts,and it is also an important reference for Wang Yangming to get out of the predicament of Zhu Xi’s neo-Confucianism and form an ideological system of mind.Wang Yangming’s thoughts are divided into two periods at the point of the dragon’s enlightenment.In the early stage,it was mainly the thought exploration period of the ’Five Submerged and Three Changes’,from the initial admiration of Confucianism to the birth practice of indulging in the Rhetoric,Military,Buddhism and Taoism,and then to exchange with Zhan Ruoshui to promote the sacred Confucianism,among which the understanding of Buddhist thought and the practice of seclusion had the role of aid in the transformation of Wang Yangming’s thought of Confucianism.In the late period,it was mainly a period of ideological transition due to the thinking in the place of Longchang,which not only was the second hermit practice,but also was an in-depth understanding period of the relationship between Confucianism and Buddhism.During this period,Wang Yangming integrated Buddhism’s moral principles into the teachings of the original Confucian theory,which made his thoughts have a distinct practicality.At the same time,he integrated Buddhism’s ’Without Me’ into the inner sanctity of Confucianism,which led to Wang Yangming’s thought to turn inward from the outside.At the level of ’macro-intellectual history’,the aid to Buddhism plays an important role in the psychological system created by Wang Yangming.In terms of tradition,Wang Yangming not only adhered to the Confucian standard and selectively inherited Confucianism theory,but also absorbed Buddhist ontology and practice theory in differentdegree,which leads to solve the shortcomings of Zhu Xi’s Confucianism deriving heart and moral-mind and even become more pure,thoroughness and absoluteness than the previous Confucianism.In the case of the later,Wang Yangming interjecting Buddhism into Confucianism has had an enormous and far-reaching impact,which promoted the Buddhism of Wang’s theory and the Confucianism of Buddhism,and further consolidated the thought pattern of later generations that Confucianism was the main body and Buddhism was the non-subject.