Pan Pingge

Pan Pingge (

Biography

Pan was born in

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 (以老攻佛), and vice versa (以佛攻老).

Pan's philosophy was searching for the humanity (求仁), and he emphasized to search truth or true knowledge from daily living and practice. Pan proposed the theories of one integrated mass (渾然一體/浑然一体) and the sight from the true mind (見在真心/见在真心).

Works

Books:

• Searching for Humanity (《求仁录》)
• Summary of Pan's Searching for Humanity (《潘子求仁录辑要》), 10 volumes, by his students
• Innovations of the Four Classics (《四书发明》) (The four classics stand for the
  Analects of Confucius, and the Mencius
  )
• The Critique of Two Schools (《辨二氏之学》) (Two schools are two main Neo-confucian schools, the Cheng-Zhu School and the Lu-Wang School)

• Biography of Pan Pingge, from Ningbo civic archive of Qing Dynasty
• Brief Biography of Pan Pingge, from Huaxia.com

Papers:

• Religious Dimension of the Xiaojing Discourse in the Late Ming^{[permanent dead link]}, by Miaw-fen Lu
• On Pan Pingge's Practical Ideology, by Pan Qizao

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