This paper holds that the practical institution was an essential practicing manner to realize extrications and pursue the extent of nirvana in Buddhist theory.The Chinese Buddhist Schools, especially the Chan School, gave a unique demonstration to the intuitive measures, developed and enriched the theory on intuitions. The paper focuses on the historic evolutions of intuitive thinking in Chinese Buddhism, briefly introducing the view of dhyana, the view of void, the integrity of the view of dhyana and void, the view of minds and the contemplation of minds in the Tiantai School, the Threefold view in the Huayan School, the insight and intuition theory in the Chan School, and the Sixteen Subjects in the Pure Land School. Finally, it concludes the development course, targets, measures and types of intuitions evolution in Chinese Buddhism, pointing out that the emphasis of contemplation of void by Chinese Buddhism meant its fundamental characteristics differentiated from the insttuituionism in local Chinese philosophy, and that its stressing of combining Self mind with the truth and mouimenta in contemplation, as well as of itsdistinctive integrated intuitive thinking, indicated its main traits in comparison with the intuitions in the Indian Buddhism.
