船山先生的佛学现量观

On Wang Chuanshan's Idea of Xian Liang

王船山,平生多与僧人交游,思想上沿袭宋明思想家的理路,游走于儒、佛、老之间,对佛学兼包并容,并有《相宗络索》传世。在认识论、方法论上,全盘吸收法相宗对“识”的分析和认知过程的探讨,突出现量在认知过程中的觉悟己性真实的重要作用,固然只是对相宗各种概念的注释,其现量论也只是因明学的翻版,既非创建哲学体系的需要,也非经世致用的理论指导,更不是修证的实践,但其承前启后的作用实在功不可没。

Wang Chuanshan makes friends with the Buddhist monks more in all his life, follows the line of reasoning of thinkers in Song and Ming dynasty and incorporates into Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism on his thought and compose The sketch of FaXiang school. On epistemology and methodology, he absorbs FaXiang＇s analysis on Shi, （consciousness） and discussion of the knowing course in order to stand out the true important function of XianLiang （intuition） to know self-nature. Although these works just annotates the different notions of the school of FaXiang and a reproduction of Hetu-vidya Logic, it is not the need of establishing the system of philosophy and the politics theoretical direction, not even the practice of cultivation, but its function of taking over from the past and setting a new course for the future performed meritorious deeds can never be neglected indeed.