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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Mind Is Reality: Buddhism Is Not a Pessimistic Religion

  AUTHORS: Yan Shi

  KEYWORDS: Mind, Reality, Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, Religion

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.4 No.10, October 17, 2016

  ABSTRACT: The main body of this essay was divided into two parts, with the first one—to controvert the misunderstanding that “Buddhism is a pessimistic religion” and to point out that Buddhism was neither pessimistic nor optimistic but realistic, and the second one—to focus on the topic of nature of mind and to give reasons why Buddhism, especially Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism, said that “Mind is reality”.