佛教的顿悟和渐悟之争与刘勰的"唯务折衷" : The debate between immediate understanding and gradual understanding on Buddhism and Liu Xie's role of eclecticist comprehension that " only the compromise to be sought " in literary theory and Criticism

南朝字所掀起佛教顿悟与渐悟之争对刘勰产生了一定的影响，刘勰在此问题上的立场，基本与道安、慧远等一致，持折衷的观点，而这对于其文章学的形成，发挥了关键的作用，《文心雕龙》大致上是以折衷顿、渐的思维方式来处理其文章学中种种矛盾与问题，使得《文心雕龙》成为中国文论史上最伟大的作品。

The Debate on understanding Buddhism, immediately or gradually, was occasioned in the Liu Song period under the reign of the Southern Dynasties rendered a great measure of influence on Liu Xie's literary thought. Liu's position on this matter was basically conforming with the reverend monks Dao An and Hui Yuan, (Guide to write articles must expend much thought, elaborately revise, amend and correct just like carve a lifelike dragon) using this very method of compromising the opposite of understanding Buddhism to arrange and settle all the contradictions occurred in creating literary writings; and has highly been deemed as by far the best work in the history of Chinese literature theory and criticism.