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 Buddhist philosophy, Chinese : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
He also introduced the emptiness philosophy of Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka thought (see Buddhism, Mādhyamika: India and Tibet; Nāgārjuna), which in China came to be called the Three Treatise School (Sanlun) after the three Madhyamaka texts he translated: the Madhyamaka-kārikās, the Twelve Gate Treatise and Āryadeva’s One Hundred Verse Treatise.
His leading disciple, Seng Zhao (384–414), further popularized Madhyamaka thought by packaging it in an exquisite adoption of the literary style of Laozi (see Daodejing) and Zhuangzi, both of whom were extremely popular amongst literati at that time.
Sanlun thought continued to spread through the fifth through seventh centuries, greatly influencing other Buddhist schools.
www.rep.routledge.com /article/G002SECT3   (487 words)

  
 Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
The radical teachings of Yogacara became known in China primarily through a work of Paramartha, a sixth-century Indian missionary-translator.
His rendition of the Mahayana-samparigraha-sastra (Compendium of the Great Vehicle) by Asanga provided a sound base for the Sanlun (Three-Treatise) School, which preceded the Faxiang School as the vehicle of Yogacara thought in China.
Faxiang is the Chinese translation of the Sanskrit term dharmalaksana (characteristic of dharma), referring to the school's basal emphasis on the unique characteristics of the dharmas that make up the world, which appears in human ideation.
www.iep.utm.edu /x/xuanzang.htm   (4283 words)

  
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