In this study, the neo-pragmatism angle is taken to re-examine the thought of Master Yin Shun’s Buddhist studies, and makes a comprehensive overview of the central ideas expressed in the subset of the thesis covered by his Buddhist studies. The "anti-philosophy" position expressed by the philosophy of emptiness （śūnyatā）of Madhyamaka and the neo-pragmatism of R.M. Rorty（1931-2007） share the same foundation, which makes it possible for us to put the Buddhist discourse of Master Yin Shun in the public knowledge framework of philosophy. The purpose is to make our discussion more "public" and "universal", which will enable us to have a new dimension in our understanding of the thought of Master Yin Shun. More importantly, it can make traditional Buddhist studies enter the vision of modern people. The theory of dependent origination （pratītya-samutpāda）is the core of Buddhism. The Mūlamadhyamakakārikā first negates the confirmation of causality by saying negation in eight aspects of dependent origination , which makes the argumentation of the doctrine of dependent origination of all foundationalism impossible , and negates the attempt to materialize or hypostatize any concept. The anti-foundational philosophical method is the core of the Madhyamaka school, which is expressed in the Buddhist studies of Master Yin Shun. Master Yin Shun regards all Buddhist research objects—Buddha said, Dharma, and Vinaya—as the existence in time and space, and all have social and historical aspects that cannot be swayed. The Buddha said is an expedient measure of false construction for the purpose of enlightenment of all beings -- convenient (upāya). Therefore, his research is an anti-objective concept of " the poetics of history ", confirming the literariness in the sutra and the Dharma that changes in history. In essence, the thought of Master Yin Shun is a kind of nominalism of historicism and Instrumentalism, negation " the correspondence theory of Truth " , no longer believing that there is a foundation behind the faith that is transcends time and opportunity, and advocates the legitimacy of "the impermanence" (contingency). "truth" is prajñapti , which can not be separated from human needs, language, history, and "truth" is just a term of praise for making life better and more interesting in the field of culture, and it is a transitory human project. Master Yin Shun inherits the Madhyamaka school, adapts to modernity and becomes a liberal ironist, replaces truth with actual effect, replaces the pursuit of objectivity with the pursuit of imagination, replaces knowledge with hope. To create a new metaphor to replace the old convenience in the history of Buddhism, and make Buddhism adapt to the new era and drum up a new cosmopolitan culture.
