Zhou Gui-hua has given much criticism to Venerable Yin-shun for many years. He accused Venerable Yin-shun who used the idea of “humanistic rationality” to let Buddhism get rid of Divine. He considered Venerable Yin-shun as a gentle of “Mahayana is not Buddha’s teaching”, even slandered Venerable Yin-shun to be a “subversion of Mahayana” and “degenerate”. Such views distort or misunderstand Yin-shun’s idea of “Mahayana is Buddha’s teaching”, and its origin is hostile to humanistic rationality. Zhou Gui-hua’s understanding of Mahayana Buddhism based on advocating by mysticism of “Divine”. Even call the modern society as “depth end of dharma’s times”, for its advocating rationality. He also cannot accept Venerable Yin-shun’s interpreting Mahayana Buddhism “Disenchantment”. As a matter of fact, the academic viewpoints of Venerable Yin-shun which rejected by Zhou Gui-hua, from the angle of academic research, are based on historical reason, and are insightful and original. Even from the perspective of the Buddhism, still be regarded as a kind of “classification of teachings”. In the history of Buddhism, there are many precedents; at the same time, we can see that Venerable Yin-shun treated the Buddha dharma not ambiguously, that reflecting the valuable character of pursuing the truth in the Buddha’s teaching.
