Abhidharma in China: reflections on 'Matching meanings' and Xuanxue

This chapter of the volume "Tekst, History, and Philosophy. Abhidharma across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions" discusses the phenomenon of 'Matching Meanings' (Geyi), a technique allegedly used to translate Indian and Central Asian Buddhist Texts into Chinese. Building on previous scholarship, this article formulates a new hypothesis: rather than interpreting 'Geyi' as a technique to make Abhidharma Texts understandable and palatable for the Chinese audience, this article suggests that 'Geyi' should rather be seen as a Neo-Confucian technique to rally Chinese intellectuals under the umbrella of 'Confucianism' after the disunity of the empire of the third to sixth centuries.

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