| The Mahayana-Sraddhotpada-sastra's One Mind and Two Gates mode have a far-reaching influence upon Chinese traditional cultures, especially upon the Song and Ming Confucianism. In One Mind and Two Gates, chen-zhu walked the shengmie road, and lu-wang the zhen-ru road. Those who lived during the late ming and early qing, their thoughts became sophisticated towards three-religion–being-one that also imbibed the zhen-ru. The Zhen-ru implied the freedom that was different from chinese original essence. It paved the way for the traditional transition into modernization, therefore exerted a great function in chinese national development. In the late ming and early qing, One Mind and Two Gates' normal developmental way was interrupted, But the schools were still influenced by Buddhism. what the scholars disapproved merely was the nihilism of Buddhism, they almost all were affected by Buddhism deeply in the mind.
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