Abstract
Guan ZhiDao (1536-1608) was a Three-religionist in Late Ming dynasty. Huang ZongXi’s Ming Ru Xue An put him into Taizhou school of thought, so he was regarded as “mild chan” or “left wing”. In fact, he made every effort to criticize Taizhou. Guan ZhiDao thought that the malady caused by scholars attached importance on epiphany and despised practice. It was not true sage of the school that they only respected Confucius or Buddha. As a result, Guan ZhiDao proposed “Xia Xue Shang Da” (Studying The Familiar and Achieving Heaven) to save the contemporary problems. Because Guan ZhiDao talked about the unity of three religions, scholars neglected that he emphasized Confucianism. Guan ZhiDao’s thought was expressed in his interpretation of Confucian classics. Therefore, this study started with his commentary on Confucian classics Da-Xue, Zhong-Yong, Confucian Analects and Zhouyi, the purpose was find out other aspects of Guan ZhiDan’s thought. Guan ZhiDao was inspired by Feng Fang to revise Da-Xue and Zhong-Yong. Guan ZhiDao thought that “Ge-Zhi” was the key to the Holy. Understood “Ge-Zhi” can understand “Wu-Xiu”. “Zhong-Yong” was not a virtue that can not be attained, scholars can study the familiar to achieve Heaven. Even though Confucius was already a sage, he still admire the higher classes of sage. Confucian Analects recorded the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciple,encouraged scholars to study human affairs. Guan ZhiDao proposed “Qun Long Wu Shou” to discuss the sage. Sages did not compete with each other since they were all achieving Heaven as the goal. Scholars had to constantly study. Studied after the epiphany will fully aware.The current study only took note of Guan ZhiDao’s three religions, but Guan ZhiDao attached great importance to Confucian classics. The results of the study were that Guan ZhiDao was very different from wild chan, Confucian classics were the source of Guan ZhiDao’s thought.