本覺思想=Thought of Original Enlightenment; 性寂=Thought of Original Silence; 批判佛教=Critical Buddhism; 場所佛教=Topical Buddism; 現代性=Modernity; 理性化=Rationalization; 科學=Science; 民主=Democracy
The 20~(th) Century witnessed two fierce attacks on The thought of Original Enlightenment, the core of Chinese Buddhism's Temperament and Soul, launched within the circle of Chinese and Japanese scholars: one originating from the debate between Lv Cheng's Idea of Original Silence and Xiong Shi-li's Theory about Original Enlightenment in 1940s; the other debate being stirred by Japanese scholars Hakamaya Noriaki (跨谷憲昭) and Matsumoto Shiro ( 松本史朗) on Criticial Buddhism in 1980's. In the former contention Lv C...
