Early engagements with buddhism and the rise of the neo-confucians
pp. 297-311
in: Xinzhong Yao (ed), Reconceptualizing Confucian philosophy in the 21st century, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
Following the Wei-Jin Dynasties, Confucian and Buddhist thinkers began to take each other's philosophy more and more seriously, and the relationship between them, sometimes antagonistic and sometimes mutually creative but that almost always played out in scenes of dispute and debate, developed into one of the most important relationships in the intellectual history of China.