A Study Of Qi Biaojia’s Thoughts Of Confucianism And Buddhism

Qi Biaojia(1602—1645) was a famous Scholar,officer and bibliophile in the late Ming Dynasty, he was also the typical representative of the contemporary scholars in the Eastern Zhejiang Province. As an officer, he was responsible to people. Be a hermit, he also relief of famine and disaster. While the Ming Dynasty fell, he had died for the country. His life has expertise in art, landscape gardening, becoming the Confucian scholar model of Ming and Qing Dynasty. Qi Biaojia had a lot interesting in ideological activities. He made friends with the famous Confucian and Eminent monk, taken in the Confucianism and Buddhism interacting with each other in terms of self-cultivation formed his own unique philosophy. It was just this philosophic theory that directed the great practice of his charity activities. All these events were written in his diary.In this paper, we will introduce his thoughts and practice respectively basic on these historical data. In the first chapter, we’ll introduce Qi Biaojia’s Life and the ideological background of the mergence of Confucianism and Buddhism. Chapter two analyzes Qi Biaojia keep relationship with the various important figures who exchange and influence Qi Biaojia including the figures of Jishan School and Wang Yangmin’s School, and the Buddhism masters of Soto Temples and Rinzai Temples. For third chapter, we will from the“Mind”,“Sit theory” and“All in one”ideas to discuss Qi Biaojia’s thoughts of the mergence of Confucianism and Buddhism directly. The key in the latest Chapter, introduce the moral practice of self-cultivation and charity activities by Qi biaojia, and elucidate Qi biaojia’s death by Confucianism and Buddhism Influence really reasen origin.