佛教的頓悟和漸悟之爭與劉勰的「唯務折衷」=The Debate Between Immediate Understanding and Gradual Understanding on Buddhism and Liu Xie's Role of Eclecticist Comprehension that"Only the Compromise to be Sought" in Literary Theory and Creticism
The Debate on understanding Buddhism, immediately or gradually, was occasioned in the Liu Song period under the reign of the Southern Dynasties rendered a great measure of influence on Liu Xie's literary thought. Liu's position on this matter was basically conforming with the reverend monks Dao An and Hui Yuan, holding eclecticism which did good as a key to him in forming his theory of writing. He wrote Wen Xin Diao Long (Guide to write articles must expend much expend much though, elaborately revise, amend and correct just like carve a lifelike dragon) using this very method of compromising the opposite of understanding Buddhism to arrange and settle all the contradictions occurred in creating literary writings; and has highly been deemed as by far the best work in the history of Chinese literature theory and criticism.
