認同依附=identity and adherence; 原義獨立=independent original meaning; 辨異拒斥=discrimination and rejection; 相互吸取=mutual absorption; 融匯創新=digestion, understanding and creation; 歷史啟示=historical inspiration
A. The propaganda of Buddhism was mediated through the laozi’s doctrine of xuan whereby Chinese culture and Buddhist culture identified and adhered with each other. B. Seng-zhao and Zhu Dao-sheng’s comprehensions of the original meaning of Buddhism marked how Chinese people’s attitude toward Buddhism changed from identification to discrimination and how Buddhism went from adherence to independence. C. The conflict between Confucianism and Buddhism was the latter’s translation from its independent original meaning to discrimination and rejection. D. Buddhism and Daoism improved and Buddhism sinicized. E. Through the sinicization of Buddhism,Confucianism absorbed Buddhism and resulted in the doctrine of li in the sung and ming dynasties; Chinese culture formed a new organic system founded on Confucianism with the coexistence and reconciliation among Confucianism,Buddhist culture,the writer presents some views about the fundamental contradiction and internal regulation contained in the absorption of a foreign culture.