The history of Buddhist logic in Ming China was narrated merely on the basis of related texts in the Zokuzōkyō canon before, but due to the limitation of materials, such a narrative was far from complete and left out the entire Qing period. The present paper firstly examines 4 newly discovered Ming and Qing commentaries on the Nyāyapraveśa and 1 on Xuanzang’s Inference of Consciousness-only, i.e., the Yinming ru zhengli lun jijie by Zhengui, the Yinming ru zhengli lun huiyi by Yonghai, the Yinming ru zhengli lun lüeshu by Huishan, the Yinming ru zhengli lun houji and Tang sanzangfashi weishiliang zhiyilu by Wu Shuxu. According to extant materials, commenting on Buddhist logic in Ming and Qing China started from Zhengui and ended by Wu Shuxu. Besides, both commentaries by Yonghai and Huishan played important parts in the scholarship of Buddhist logic in Ming and Qing China as well. Secondly, this paper makes textual research in various ways, and so is able to collect records of many works on Buddhist logic by more than ten Buddhist scholars, including Ruyu, Tongrun, Zhencheng, Guangcheng, etc. Based on all the new materials above,24 works on Buddhist logic in Ming and Qing are counted, including 19 commentaries on the Nyāyapraveśa, 4 on Xuanzang’s Inference of Consciousness-only, and 1 on the Nyāyamukha. Furthermore, it reinvestigates the lineages in Ming and Qing, adds the narrative of Qing, and attempts to reconstruct the history of Buddhist logic of that whole stage.
