Study Of Wang Fuzhi's The Sketch Of Fahshiang School

Modern and contemporary study about Wang Fu-zhi's Buddhist thinking focuses on special topics, such as pratyaksa concept, the relationship between subject of knowledge and objects of knowledge, the order of transforming eight consciousness and gaining four wisdom, obfuscation and consciousness, three characteristic and three non-characteristic,etc. As we can see,what they do is to take several parts from The sketch of Fahshiang school's twenty nine categories,to analyze and investigate. Moreover, their purpose is to comparative study his Buddhist thinking and Confucianism. This book is just used as a convenient contents of Wang Fu-zhi's consciousness-only thinking, which means they are lack of macroscopical classification and microcosmic comparative studies. For this, this paper is based on thirty important categories'analysis of The sketch of Fahshiang school, suspending Wang Fu-zhi's Confucian-based thinking, rearrange consciousness-only's basic theories from Wang Fu-zhi's Insight, and focusing on basic concepts and propositions'derivation of The sketch of Fahshiang school, especially on the "consciousness","twelve yuan","nine yuan "," four yuan"," caitta "," pratyaksa ","obfuscation and consciousness ","samsara" and destroying falsehoods and returning truth then transforming eight consciousness and gaining four wisdoms finally. So we can understand research results of Wang Fu-zhi's consciousness-only study integrally. As a representative of consciousness-only's respite during late Ming and early Qing dynasty, The sketch of Fahshiang school not only summarized and inherited predecessors' theoretical achievements,but also layed the foundation of consciousness-only's research new climax in lat-Qing dynasty and the Republic of China. So after systemic,exhaustive,embedded study for this book,we will understand it better that is Buhhdism development during late Ming and early Qing dynasty,especially consciousness-only development.