Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t6.16

v1.c7.s7.t6.16

After southward migration of the scholars during the period of Eastern Jin Dynasty, the then prevailing ideas on metaphysics also crossed the Yangtze River. With the spread of Buddhism in China, topics of scholars’ discussion were also influenced so that the argument of “no existence and no non-existence” replaced the argument of existence and non-existence of the fundamental and the incidental. Buddhist scholars also introduced