It is not enough to study only the Confucian writings, he said, but a good scholar also should broaden his knowledge by investigating the teachings of the Buddhists and Daoists, because their writings all influenced later Confucian thought, and are therefore able to "enlighten the mind and to make clear the human character" ( ming xin jian xing 明心見性). Although he was an adherent of Zhu Xi's philosophy his thoughts clearly show deeper influences of Buddhist and Daoist thought than that of the great Southern Song Neo-Confucian master Zhu Xi. He was also one of the first Yuan scholars that were employed as expert personnel by the founder of the Ming dynasty. Song Lian 宋濂 (1310-1381) undertook the compilation of the official dynastic history ( zhengshi 正史) of the Yuan period, Yuanshi 元史. ![]() Daoism and Chan Buddhism showed their influence in the thinking of Ming scholars that retired from official posts and developed quietistic philosophies that were more oriented to the own person and the place of humans in the universe than to construct an ideal state like the pre-Han philosophers had done. ![]() Further Development of Neo-Confucian PhilosophyĪlthough Confucianism had been adopted as "orthodox" state doctrine since the Han period 漢, and Neo-Confucianism since the Yuan period 元, there existed many liberate and oppositional ways of thought among the Ming Confucian scholarship, especially among the scholars of the Donglin Academy 東林院.
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