Ouyang Jian
Ōuyáng Jiàn 歐陽漸 (1871-1943) was a lay Buddhist teacher and founder of the Chinese Inner Studies Institute 支那內學院.
Biography
Ōuyáng was first convinced to study Buddhism by Guì Bóhuá 桂伯華, who was from the same area as Ōuyáng. Guì also introduced him to Yáng Wénhuì 楊文會. Ōuyáng studied under Yáng in Nánjīng 南京 at the end of the first decade of the 20th century, and after Yáng's death Ōuyáng continued his teacher's education efforts by founding the Chinese Inner Studies Institute 支那內學院 in 1922. In 1931 he founded the periodical Inner Studies Monthly 內學. He was a vocal advocate of Dharmalakṣaṇa and Consciousness-Only philosophy 法相唯識學.
In the 1920s, he and several of his students were involved in debates, primarily with Tàixū 太虛 and his students, over the authenticity of the Mahāyāna Awakening of Faith (See 大乘起信論真偽辯). His side felt it was a Chinese apocryphal text.
In 1937 he fled Nánjīng because of the war and continued his publishing activities in Jiāngjīn 江津, Sìchuān 四川. He died of illness in 1943.
Ōuyáng had two sons, Ōuyáng Gé 歐陽格 (1895-1940) and Ōuyáng Zhāng 歐陽璋 (dates unknown). Gé was commander-in-chief of the Navy of the National Revolutionary Army.
Important Works
Notable Students
- Xióng Shílì 熊十力
- Lǚ Chéng 呂澂
- Wáng Ēnyáng 王恩洋
- Huáng Chànhuá 黃懺華
- Mǎnzhì 滿智 (also a student of Tàixū 太虛)
- Jǐng Chāngjí 景昌極
References
- Aviv, Eyal. "Differentiating the Pearl From the Fish Eye: Ouyang Jingwu (1871-1943) and the Revival of Scholastic Buddhism." Ph.D. Dissert. Harvard University, 2008.
- Template:ZFJS Pp. 2.660-667.
- Template:ZJFRZ Pp. 362-386.
- Template:XFRC Pp. 2.1560b-1563c.
- 程恭讓. "歐陽竟無先生的生平、事業及其佛教思想的特質"
- 鄒自振. "近現代唯識宗代表——歐陽竟無"
