The Sociology of Philosophies

Figure 6.5. Neo-Confucian

Orthodoxy and the Idealist

Movement, 1435–1565

1300

373 Liu Chi (astron/astrol, skeptic

anti-superstition) 

374 Hsieh Ying Fang (skeptic) 

374a Cheng Yü (same as 372a) 

1400

375 Ts’ao Tuan (skeptic,

anti-Buddhist) 

376 Yang P’u 

377 Hsieh Hsuan (cm.

Neo-Confucian texts) 

378 Wu Yü-pi

379 Hu Chü-jen (faithful

Neo-Confucian)

1500

380 Lou Liang

381 Chan Jo-shui

382 Hsü Ai

383 Huang Wan

384 Ku Yin-hsing

385 Ch’ien Te-hung (split in Wang

Yang-Ming school)

386 Ch’en Ching-lan (orthodox

Neo-Confucian, crit. Lu

Chiu-yuan and Wang

Yang-Ming as Ch’an

Buddhism) 

Figure 7.1. Network of Japanese

Philosophers, 600–1100: Founding

of Tendai and Shingon

600

1 Kwalluk (Buddhist fr. Korea)



2 Hui-Kuan (Korean,

transmitted Buddhist

Satyasiddhi & Madhyamika

schools) 

635

3 Chisu (Japanese priest,

transmitted Abhidharma)

4 Chitatsu (same)

5 Dosho (Japanese priest,

transmitted Yogacara)

700

6 Gyogi (shamanistic

Buddhist) 

735

7 Kibi-no-Makibi (transmitted

Confucianism fr. China) 

8 Gembo (Japanese priest, st.

China) 

9 Bodhisena (Indian Buddhist

monk) 

10 Tao-hsüan (transmitted

Vinaya) 

11 Shen-huiang (China,

transmitted Kegon

[Hua-yen]) 

12 Chien-chien (Chinese Vinaya

master) 

[13] Amoghavajra (tantrist, from

China; 254 in Fig. 6.2)

765

[14] Hsiu-jan (Zen, China)

[15] Shun-chia (mantra doctrine

[tantrism], China)

[16] Tao-sui (T’ien-t’ai, China; 269

in Fig. 6.2)

[18] Hui-kuo (tantrist, China)

835

19 Ennin (systematized Tendai

[T’ien-t’ai]) 

20 Enchin f. Tendai

esotericism/magic

916 • (^) Appendix 3