Ouyang Jian 歐陽漸

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Oūyáng Jiàn 歐陽漸 (1871-1943)

Oūyáng was a lay Buddhist teacher and founder of the Chinese Inner Studies Institute 支那內學院.

  • Born 1871 (Tóngzhì 同治 10) in Yíhuáng county 宜黃縣, Jiāngxī 江西
  • Died 1943 (Mínguó 民國 32)
  • Courtesy names 字: Jìnghú 鏡湖; chnaged to Jìngwú 竟無 after 40 suì 歲

Biography

Oūyáng studied under Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會 in Nánjīng 南京, and after Yáng's death Oūyáng continued his teacher's education efforts by founding the Chinese Inner Studies Institute 支那內學院 in 1922. In 1931 he founded the periodicals Inner Studies Monthly 內院年刊 and Inner Studies Magazine 內院雜誌. He was a vocal advocate of Fǎxiàng/Wéishì (Dharma-character / Consciousness-only) philosophy 法相唯識學.

In the 1920s, he and several of his students were involved in debates, primarily with Tàixū 太虛 and his students, over the authenticity of the Mahāyāna Awakening of Faith 大乘起信論真偽辯. His side felt it was a Chinese apocrypha.

In 1937 he fled Nánjīng because of the war and continued his publishing activities in Jiāngjīn 江津, Sìchuān 四川. He died of illness in 1943.

Important Works

  • 瑜伽師地論敘 (1917)
  • "佛法非宗教非哲學而為今時所必需", speech delivered at 南京高師哲學研究會 in 1921
  • 大乘密嚴經敘 (1936)

Notable Students

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