Xiong Shili

Xiong Shili (1960)

Xiong Shili ( 熊十力 , Xióng Shílì , Hsiung Shih-li ; born 1885 ; died 1968 ), hào : Zizhen 子 真 , was an important Chinese philosopher. He was a representative of the new idealistic Confucianism.

life and work

Xiong was from Huanggang in Hubei Province . He was involved in the Xinhai Revolution , which ended the Qing Dynasty . He worked for the Republican Army and Government. For a few years he studied Buddhism under Ouyang Jingwu 歐陽 竟 無 (1871-1943), then he turned to Confucianism . From 1923 he taught his new teaching of consciousness only at Peking University . His theory combined elements of the Book of Changes ( I Ching ), the neo-Confucian Lu-Wang school and the consciousness-only school of Mahayana Buddhism . His theory found expression in his major work A New Treatise on Vijñaptimātra ( Xin weishi lun ), a Confucian criticism of the Buddhist Vijñapti-mātra theory of “consciousness only”, which was written in China by the pilgrim Xuanzang (c. 602–664) at the time of Tang Dynasty was made popular.

According to his main thesis, “Reality or the universe is a whole. Its basic nature, namely that of the spirit, the will and the consciousness, is eternal and permanent. It is dynamic, a huge constant stream of change that is in the process of constant transformation, creating and reproducing all things ”.

Works

• Xin weishi lun新 唯識 論 ( A New Treatise on Vijñaptimātra )
• Yuanru源 儒 ( The Original Confucianism )
• Shili yuyao十 力 語 要 ( Important conversations from Shili )
• Fojia mingxiang tongshi佛家 名 相通 釋 ( A Comprehensive Explanation of the Buddhist Theory of Phenomena )

See also

• Yogācāra
• Hosso-shu

References and footnotes

1. ↑ While Feng Youlan, for example, advocated the new rationalist Confucianism. - See A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy by Wing-tsit Chan (1963).
2. ↑ Named after Lu Jiuyuan (1139–1193) and Wang Yangming (1472–1528).
3. ↑ Chinese   唯識 宗  /  唯识 宗 , Pinyin Wéishízōng = Vijnaptimatrata (consciousness only) school
4. ↑ Article: “Xiong Shili”, in: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian. Kaifeng 2002, p. 658
5. ↑ Article: “Xiong Shili”, in: Han-Ying Zhongguo zhexue cidian. Kaifeng 2002, p. 658:

   "Reality or the universe is a great whole. Its basic nature, which is that of mind, will and consciousness, is eternal and continuous. It is dynamic, a vast ever-running current of changes, in the process of perpetual transformation, producing and reproducing all things. "

literature

• 汉英 中国 哲学 辞典. 开封 2002
• Zhang, Dainian: "Xiong Shili" . Great Chinese Encyclopedia (Philosophy), 1 A.
• Zhang, Qingxiong: "Xiong Shili's new only-consciousness theory: from Yogâcâra Buddhism to the new Confucianism." Swiss Asian Studies / Monographs = Monographs; Vol. 15. Lang Verlag, 1993, ISBN 978-3-906752-17-4
• Qingxiong Zhang: "The basic structure of consciousness: Husserl and Xiong Shili in comparison." Heaven, Earth, and In-Between in the Harmony of Life , pp. 85–114 ( partial online view )

Web links

• The Doctrine of Mere Imagination (vijñaptimātratā) (PDF; 115 kB)
• Works by Xiong Shili (without reading the apparently inadvertently incorrectly assigned Chinese characters)