Pan Pingge


Pan Pingge, was a notable Chinese philosopher during the late-Ming and early-Qing period.

Biography

Pan was born in Cixi City, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in late Ming Dynasty in 1610. His courtesy name was Yongwei.
During the Shunzhi Era, Pan lived in Shanying, Zhejiang Province for ten years. Later Pan became a lecturer in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province.

Philosophy

Pan chronologically studied and inspected the philosophies of Cheng-Zhu, Lu-Wang, and Buddhist philosophy. Pan discovered some subtle conflicts between these philosophical schools, and thought the Neo-confucianism developed in Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties were quite derivatives from the original thoughts or principles of Confucius and Mencius.
Pan criticized that Neo-confucianism mixed too much Zen buddhism, thus called those confucian scholars the "Monks of the Confucian Temple".
Pan considered that Cheng-Zhu School philosophically debated with Lu-Wang School is a kind of using Taoism to attack Buddhism, and vice versa.
Pan's philosophy was searching for the humanity, and he emphasized to search truth or true knowledge from daily living and practice. Pan proposed the theories of one integrated mass and the sight from the true mind.

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