钱大昕对佛教轮回说的批判

在钱大昕的经史考据成果中,不乏积极的义理探索和深刻的思想内涵。对佛教轮回说的批判,就是其中重要的组成部分。钱大昕此举继承和发展了何承天、范缜以来的朴素唯物论和无神论传统,并从一个侧面体现了对出入佛老的理学的反感和否定,在中国学术思想史上具有一定的进步意义。

Qian Daxin''''s Criticism of Buddhism Samsana

During Qian Daxin's achievements in textual research on the classics and history, there is no lack of positine search for argumentation or propound thought intension. Criticism of Buddhism Samara is one of his important fruits, from which Qian Daxin has inherited and developed the tradition of Naine Materialism and Atheism since the times of HChengtian and Fan Zheng. The criticism also reflects the aversion even negation to Neo-confucianism(理学)that was affected by Buddhism. Hence, it is recognized to have progressive significance in the history of the academic thought.